Guest Post: Venturehomes.ca

I've had the pleasure of getting to know Ken Biehler through twitter and facebook, side note, social media is great for networking and boy am I glad we met. Ken is founder and president of Venturehomes.ca, a virtual tour company and pioneers in their field. Realty Royalty has had the pleasure of working with one of Ken's reps and let me tell you they are very professional and get the job done! With the popularity of virtual tours on the rise, a Realtor would be crazy not to have one for their upcoming listing and not utilize the services from Venturehomes.ca.

Ken has so kindly agreed to write a guest blog post and explain a bit more what Venturehomes.ca can do for all of us Realtors. So without further ado, take it away Ken.......

Venturehomes.ca boasts 12 years and over 30,000 virtual tours experience in marketing real estate via the Internet.  This vast experience has made Venturehomes.ca the leading Virtual Tour company in Southern Ontario.  Virtual Tours are a series of photos and multi-media elements that allows a potential homebuyer to view the home over the Internet without actually visiting the property.  It is basically a 24/7 open house of the home that allows hundreds of people to see the property.

Venturehomes.ca takes this to the next level.  We sketch a floorplan of the layout of the home; the floorplan is interactive and allows visitors to click the room of interest and automatically pictures of that room will appear. Unlike a movie that has a start and a finish, a Venturehomes.ca virtual tour allows the customer to see the rooms that they are interested in most.  Visitors have a very real experience of what the homes is like.  After viewing a Venturehomes.ca virtual tour the buyer is often interested in buying before they even visit the home in person.  That is great marketing!

You need more than just pictures on the Internet to sell a home. Like any form of advertising you need eyeballs to see the advertising for it to work. Venturehomes.ca actively links up to as many websites as possible and utilizes social media.  All virtual tours get linked up to Facebook and Twitter.  In fact Venturehomes.ca expects to receive 2 million visitors to the website this year and every property will get hundreds of extra visits! The visits are tracked and monitored through a stats program so you know when and how many people are visiting the virtual tour.

The extra attention can only benefit people selling their homes with a Venturehomes.ca Virtual Tour on it!

Don't forget to follow Venturehomes.ca on Twitter and "like" their Facebook page (and check out some of their cool tours). Thanks again Ken!