Our Two Newest Advertising Partners

With the ever increasing online traffic, bhamtours is a great way to promote your business. Whether you cater to home buyers, Realtors, or even affiliates to the real estate industry, make sure you tap into the thousands of visitors who make over a million hits a month (and growing) on our website. We have a variety of advertising rates and packages that fit almost every budget. Click here for rates.

Bhamtours is proud to announce MoveDaddy and KC Haririan from First Federal Mortgage as our newest advertising partners. MoveDaddy is a Birmingham based moving company offering a variety of services from moving to storage. First Federal Mortgage is a Alabama based bank, and KC will give you the customer service you’d expect from a local business.

Dispelling the myth: Our virtual tours work on mobile devices

Bhamtours is diligent about staying on the front end of the technology curve in an effort to deliver a robust marketing solution that provides direct and pertinent information for potential home buyers. There is a somewhat misleading notion that 360° Panorama Tours are old technology that does not integrate with today’s mobile devices. Our virtual tours, can be viewed on iPads, iPhones, and the newer Droid and BlackBerry devices. In fact, ALL the components of a listing’s website work on those mobile devices: the virtual tour scenes, the slideshow of photographs, even the fact sheet comes up on mobile devices.

There is a somewhat misleading notion that 360° Panorama Tours are old technology that does not integrate with today’s mobile devices. Our virtual tours, can be viewed on iPads, iPhones, and the newer Droid and BlackBerry devices.

Bhamtours has never used the traditional 360° ”pano” style tour that just spins on one plane in a single direction. Our virtual tours are immersive photography which is a cutting edge technology that allows potential home buyers to pan around a room in 2 dimensions, both horizontally and vertically, and zoom in and out in the 3rd dimension. Our virtual tours empower home buyers to focus on the parts of the house that are most important to them.

Bhamtours made an effort long ago to make sure our product is compatible with mobile devices. In fact, we encourage the use of mobile devices by placing a sign rider with a QR code on the sign posts of all the houses we photograph. This way potential buyers can immediately access the information on listings they are interested in by scanning the QR code with their mobile device and going directly to that listing’s website. We are the only real estate photography and marketing company in town that provides this technology. Potential buyers can literally stand in the front yard of a house that bhamtours has photographed and take the virtual tour, look at photographs, and get all the information about the listing. No other company in town combines a quality online and mobile presence with immediate access to information like bhamtours.

Please call 205.563.1165 or email info@bhamtours.com to schedule a photo shoot and get this technology working for your listing.

New Advertising Partner – Road Runner Moving

Last month we got 1.3 million hits on our website, with hundreds of unique visitors every single day: potential home buyers visit bhamtours because they want to see great photographs of great houses – Realtors and brokers visit bhamtours because they want to find a robust, turnkey marketing solution that helps them sell homes – professionals affiliated with the Real Estate industry in Birmingham visit bhamtours to glean trending information from our blog.

With such a variety of visitors to bhamtours, and with over a million hits, our website is actually becoming a great way to advertise. We would like to thank our newest advertising partner, Road Runner Moving (www.roadrunnermoving.us).

birmingham movers

They took advantage of the online traffic with bhamtours and used it to publicize their brand: Professional, clean-cut movers making your Birmingham move easier.

We have several options and price points available for advertising, one for every budget and need. Please see our pricing information by clicking on the following link, www.birminghamvirtualtours.com/Advertise. Our graphic artist can help mock up your advertisement and get the message of your company out on bhamtours.

December Special – $99 Preferred Package all month long!

Our December promotion is back again this year. For the month of December, our Preferred Package (residential real estate only), normally a $150 dollar value, will only be $99 – all month long! You will still get all the great photography, high quality virtual tours and the amenities for 34% off the normal price.

The only two caveats are:

  1. We must photograph the house during the month of December (i.e., no booking for a listing you are going to get during the last week in January).
  2. You must be on our email list. If you aren’t on our email list, it is super simple to sign up. On our home page (www.bhamtours.com) there is a box on the lower left hand column. Just fill in your name, email and company.
  3. Payment (cash, check, credit card) must be received at time of service.

Our $99 December Special is our way of saying thank you for your business, and we wish you a happy and blessed holiday.

Bhamtours featured in the October issue of Birmingham Magazine

Last month Natan was interviewed by Birmingham Magazine for their “Savvy Entrepreneur” section. And for once we were in front of the camera instead of behind the lens. We would of course like to thank all our clients who have helped us become so savvy! Please check out the link, and refer us to anyone who might need virtual tours and on-location photography.

Here is the link to the article:

http://www.bhammag.com/oct_11_entrepreneur.aspx

Become a fan of bhamtours on Facebook

Starting in May we will be offering exclusive deals through our Facebook fanpage. So don’t miss out on chances to save money with bhamtours or book special photo packages. Also, you can announce open houses on our wall, even comment on the links to your listings which are posted daily. Become a fan: www.facebook.com/bhamtours

Open House at 3663 Haven View Circle

Christy Fletcher from LAH is hosting an open house this Sunday, April 10 for all prospective buyers from 2pm – 4pm. This is the BEST townhouse in Vestavia Knolls, and the BEST price on a 2/2.5 anywhere over the mountain.

Check out the website for photographs and the virtual tour: www.3663havenviewcircle.com

www.3663havenviewcircle.com

Facebook exclusive deals starting in May!

Starting in May, bhamtours will be offering deals and promotions exclsively through its facebook fan page. So go to www.facebook.com/bhamtours and become a fan of bhamtours. You will not only receive notification of of special promotions, but you can review links to listings around town before the Hot Sheet gets published.

A New Year – New Marketing Solutions Part IV: Robust Marketing Solutions

It’s the last day of January, and the rest of 2011 is before us. We hope you had a great start to the year. Since one month is now behind us, and the rest of the year is ahead of us, we ask one last time…How are your marketing dollars being spent, and are you getting the most value for your dollar?

We label our photography and virtual tour packages as robust for one specific reason: they give you 1 whole year of marketing for less cost than 1 month with traditional print advertising. In other words, if you go with a more traditional advertising route, and that listing doesn’t sell within a month, you will end up spending more of your time and money than you would have with bhamtours. And if that potential buyer doesn’t pick up and read the real estate magazine or survey the classifieds, then you most certainly have not gotten the most value for your dollar.

With traditional print media, if that listing doesn’t sell within a month
you could be wasting your time & money.

By investing that same amount, or often times less, with bhamtours, you get professional photography, a 360o virtual tour, and a listing specific website, which helps to ensure that your listing is presented in the best possible way on every search engine, in every real estate office, and on every potential buyer’s computer for an entire year! And an inherent benefit of having a website dedicated to your listing is the flexibility it provides. You can easily share that link in all sorts of places: sign riders, personal website, fact sheets/fliers, social media, etc. Remember – robust!

But what if the listing sells within a year? (With professional photographs and virtual tours there is a good chance it will.) Have you wasted money on a whole year of marketing?!?! Absolutely not: A local agent had the idea of putting a “sold” banner on the website and using it on listing presentations:

Think about your next listing presentation. Let your potential clients know that you will be making the investment in professional photographs, virtual tours and a website for their listing. Show them an example of our product at www.bhamtours.com, and they’ll rest assured that you understand today’s real estate market.  Or better yet, use one of your prior listings with a “sold” banner across it, and they’ll get excited!

How are your marketing dollars being spent, and are you getting the most value for your dollar?

With any of our packages you will get a robust, turnkey marketing solution that is an excellent value for your time and your dollar.

We look forward to working with you this year. Please call 205.563.1165 or email info@bhamtours.com to schedule now.