Traverse City Real Estate Blog: Jason LaVanture (www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)

Fellow RTV Virtual Tour Dealers,


Your time is precious and the busy season for virtual tour production is upon us! How are you spending your time? Greetings from Bridgewater Nova Scotia, Nancy Bain and Supernova Studios. http://www.supernovastudios.ca Your Nova Scotia virtual tours provider, fellow dealer and RTV family member.

I’ve been very fortunate to connect with many of you already on facebook. Each time I add a fellow RTV virtual tour Dealer, I file you to a “special” place on my Friends List I have created called RTV Dealers.

I have close to 700 friends on facebook. Each “friend” is filed to a certain list. Ex- high school, family, friends, RTV Dealers, Social Media, Real Estate, and one I simply call Networking.

I discipline myself to one hour per day networking on facebook. Please visit my fan page at http://www.facebook.com/NovaScotiaVirtualTours For many of you, you do not have that much time (and that’s a good thing) but typically, I spend 20 minutes first thing in the morning (then CLOSE facebook), and the rest of the time in the evening on my “off” time.

My email inbox is constantly open and downloads email automatically. I get notifications all day long via my inbox from facebook. I will (quickly) read the notification and decide if it is worth interrupting my work to respond to. I respond to all friend requests immediately with a thank you “inbox” (which I have saved and copy and paste) telling them my story. I explain that I am an RTV Dealer and producer of Nova Scotia virtual tours. I'm certain to let them know that I offer 360 degree, full screen high definition virtual tours that will rank organically on google and can be shared through social media platforms. I tell them my passion is social media that I offer a social ignition e-course at my site they are welcome to participate in.

Facebook for me is about two things. Networking and Learning. I only read newsfeed information from these lists: RTV Dealers, Social Media, Real Estate and Networking. Organize your friends into “lists” so that you can concentrate on what is important in the newsfeed and not waste time on the rest of it.

Networking: I spend half my twenty minutes networking and engaging people. I wish happy birthday’s, I comment on photos, and status updates (from the above lists) and from the fan pages that I have chosen to “like”.

Learning: I DO NOT “LIKE” RANDOM PAGES. They clog up my newsfeed and waste my time. I only “like “ pages that will supply me with valuable industry related information. And I comment on these pages too. THAT is where the friend requests are coming from that I file under “networking”. These are LIKE MINDED people in the industry who have a passion for: photography, social media, real estate, etc. Some of these people/pages offer valuable insight or tips that is related to OUR BUSINESS.

Facebook can be addictive. Which brings me to the point of this blog. If you are playing games on facebook, chatting with friends, and not using it as a business too. You are wasting your valuable time and your business will slow because of this. Beware of you who you're getting your advice from!

Here is a tip if your newsfeed is clogged with constant “game” notifications: "On your regular News Feed, you can weed out the updates from farming, organized crime, vampire, or casual games your friends are playing. Just move the mouse cursor to the end of the first line from an update from say, Mafia Wars, and click the Hide button that appears. A box pops up giving you the option to either hide game updates (or the friend) from your News Feed."

A better way to do this is by organizing your “friends” in to lists and only following those “worth” following.

If you aren’t sure how to organize your friends into lists, or if you have any questions related to facebook, please be sure to “like” my page at http://www.supernovastudios.ca and post any questions you have there. I answer all questions within 24 hours.

I’m spending my time on facebook networking and learning. I hope you are too. Don’t get caught up in the games and pointless time wasted.  If you do I'm sure you competitors will be thanking you all the way to the bank!

Your Nova Scotia virtual tours provider,
Nancy Bain
Supernova Studios
http://www.supernovastudios.ca

As you know, home staging is frequently employed by homeowners and real estate agents to help show properties to their best advantage. We all know that a staged home shows better than an empty home. As wonderful as traditional home staging is there are some drawbacks with regards to cost and what is actually included with the home.

BlueLaVaMedia, producer of Traverse City Virtual Tours is very pleased to announce our all new virtual home staging product.  We will take any unfurnished room and stage it to your taste and style for only $60.00.  You're able to choose the furniture from our online furniture library.  Ordering virtual staging for one of your properties can be done by giving us a call by placing an order online. Please follow the link below and start Virtually Staging with us today!

Only $60.00 per room! Click below to see a demonstration of a virtually staged room.
Traverse City Virtual Staging
http://www.BlueLaVaMedia.com
Call Today - 231-946-1360

ould it really be High Definition Interactive Virtual Tours?  Yes, times have changed drastically over the last two years and team BlueLaVaMedia is working hard to keep our virtual tour technology at the forefront of virtual tour technology.

Today we are proud to announce that we have upgraded our virtual tour viewer to support Full Screen High Definition images. Take a look at the virtual tours below and you will quickly see how our new HD full screen virtual tours transform the typical interactive virtual tour to something quite spectacular.  Trust us that our new HD experience literally makes your audience feel like they are standing right in the room! With just a click of a button BlueLaVaMedia now delivers you a brand new amazing interactive virtual tour experience.

Sample our new HD Virtual Tours:

Real Estate Sample:
http://rtvpix.com/RE-3608-MEK2OV-01

Real Estate Sample:
http://rtvpix.com/RE-3273-5SCY8A-01

Traverse City State Theatre:
http://rtvpix.com/BU-2026-5KWOEM-01

Don't worry about load time.  In fact, our virtual tours load faster than any of the other video or interactive virtual tour platforms out there!  This is because we compress our images down to an amazingly small size before publishing them to our servers while maintaining strict standards in quality.  No waiting for a huge video file to load only to get a tiny window.  No more staring at a loading bar for two minutes only to end up viewing a simple full screen slide show. Now you can tell your customers that you're giving online shoppers a truly interactive HD virtual tour experience.  Finally, our HD full screen virtual tours can also be easily converted into streaming video for YouTube deployment! It's truly amazing!

We want you to experience this new feature on your listings, so from now through April, your first virtual tour you purchase from us will get a free HD full screen upgrade. Starting May 1st 2010 an upgrade to our HD viewer will cost $20.00 on our Real Estate Virtual Tours.

Show your customers that your are on the cutting edge of technology with one of our "NEW HD" virtual tours today.

Thanks!

Team BlueLaVaMedia

The 'BIGGEST' Traverse City Virtual Tour Company
http://www.BlueLaVaMedia.com
Order a Virtual Tour : 231-946-1360

Attention active rain community, real estate agents, virtual tour photographers and camera junkies alike.  Please join us for the next episode of The IMAGE "The official photography webinar of RTV virtual tours". 

Are you looking for that perfect camera and not sure which brand is best?  Have you been to several camera shops only to hear each supposed expert claim their preferred brand is the best because of XY and Z?  If you have, please know that you're not alone out there.  In fact, there are thousands of people who simply throw their hands up in the air each day and select a camera out of sheer exhaustion.

If only you could get all of those camera shop owners in one room at the same time so you can witness firsthand a fair and balanced debate then maybe then you could make an informed decision. Well now you can!  Because RTV has hundreds of virtual tour providers all around the world we are going to do something that most companies out there could never achieve.  We're going to put die hard Canon junkies up against must have Nikon lovers against Fuji fanatics and Olympus addicts and watch them fight it out on The IMAGE 13 "Camera Wars".

Join us ringside for an amazingly fun no holds barred evening as dedicated RTV Virtual Tour Builders throw off the gloves and debate why they chose Canon, Nikon, Olympus, or Sony. This will be a sheer battle of the brand and only those with true grit will be left standing.

Find out the advantages and disadvantages of each brand of digital SLR so you will know what to pick the next time you plan to get a camera. Join me, Ben Knorr, for the IMAGE webinar – "Camera Wars" on March 30th at 7:00 Eastern.

Sign up NOW! Public is welcome!
https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/710831347


P.S.  If you love your digital SLR, think it is the best brand, don't have a problem telling the other brands off, then we would love for you to be a guest on this show! Shoot me an email or give me a call today at 231-947-0684!

Dear Jack,

During the RTV virtual tour webinar regarding the LifeLock system, Jason LaVanture mentioned a few steps to take if you thought you had spyware on your computer.  Could you please do me a HUGE favor and outline those steps? 

Yours Truly,

Melissa

Melissa my dear,

Thank you so much for your interest in keeping your computer running smoothly. There's simply nothing worse than having a virus or spyware taking your valuable time away from you.  Let me run through what Jason (The Virtual Tour Guru) was talking about on the webinar and explain what he referred to as "Protocol". 

Before spyware does strike you down you should arm yourself by going to http://www.avast.com/download-software  and http://www.malwarebytes.org/  and http://www.atribune.org/ for the ATF cleaner.  These three programs should be installed on your computer and you should regularly get updates for them.

Should you ever feel that your computer is running slowly or that you're infected you should immediately take the following protocol:

1. Update Malwarebytes and then unplug yourself from the Internet

2. Turn off System Restore (I know this is a scary thing to do but please trust me!)

3. Reboot your computer in safe mode with networking by pressing F8 during boot

4. Once logged into windows run the ATF cleaner and remove all

5. Run Malwarebytes and perform a full scan

6. Once scan is complete reboot your machine once again in safe mode

7. Run Malwarebytes again, check for updates (plug in briefly and then unplug), and run a full scan

8. Continue scanning and rebooting in safe mode until your scan comes up clean

9. Boot into regular windows, plug back into the Internet, update Malwarebytes again and run another full scan

10. If the scan comes up clean turn System Restore back on and consider yourself very LUCKY!

11. Good luck out there!

Print these directions off now and tuck them away somewhere.  Trust me, when you've got 1800 Virtual Tour Providers around the World you tend to deal with this on a daily basis!

Real Tour Vision
http://www.realtourvision.com
Virtual Tours

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