We want to make it easier for you to have business success.

We're going to create these together... 360º Virtual experiences of your real world location that encourage visitors to discover which of your products, services or experiences are for them.

Let's say, I’m an independent local business that is part of a statewide or national chain.

Issues to overcome:

• Head office provides marketing brand awareness but I’m responsible for building and maintaining the local business
• Representation of local businesses on the corporate website is limited or non-existent
• Don’t have the time, resources or expertise to do a specky website
• Facebook brings in business hogs valuable time that should be spent on other things. Facebook needs to constantly be fed stories to maintain organic reach
• We’re listed on Google My Business but don’t maintain it

My Business Needs:

• An inexpensive, easy to operate web property to run a promotions strategy
• Maintain customer contacts to leverage for business growth and eventually succession
• Leverage your showroom to service more visitors who progress to customers

It’s hard to find the time to promote you business while you’re operating it, seems like you’re always playing catchup. It is especially vexing when you don’t have full control of marketing your business. It is part of a chain, marketing is all done at head office. That’s great for brand awareness, lots of people recognise the brand but what about engaging on the local level, your customers? Is there a way of being systematic about that, a way that doesn’t rob time from providing your service?

If you are asking yourself any of these questions but not getting the answers you're looking for… our three part solution will help:

1. What if you could open your showroom to potential customers without having to have more people to staff it - a Virtual Showroom
   Create a virtual experience based on your real life location, display room, gallery, training space or destination. Self paced pathways through the virtual tour simulates real life conversations as visitors engage and interact with items along their paths. They might accompany a tour guide for a live conversation or presentation.
   Weblinks with videos and information boxes reveal in depth information as the visitor decides which of the offerings they want to purchase by a linked e-commerce platform or discuss directly with sales agents. Use Google Analytics to reveal visitor behaviour and thereby optimise the virtual tour.
2. How about an automated email strategy that kept your followers and customers up to date about new products, current offers and community information.
   Capture email and social media contacts for ongoing engagement.
3. Google My Business provide a free lightweight website linked to Google search and Google Maps optimised for your local area. It only takes a short amount of time to set up. It’s powerful, it’s free and it’s well worth setting up even if you have your own website. Here’s an example of Nuvue Studios Google My Business Site. If you use it as your main website, link it to your Google My Business listing, otherwise link your own website.

What are virtual tours?

They simulate existing locations using 360º still images or 360º videos, with embedded video, music, narration and sound effects to deepen the experience.

Have you considered using local events as part of you local marketing strategy? Use virtual tours to merge real and online events and incorporate live streaming and video conferencing for a feeling of being part of it all, not just observers.

Why virtual tours?

They make viewers feel like they are actually walking through a physical experience and playing in the world you’ve created for them. Typically, they stay in the virtual world making discoveries until satisfied and as a result can improve you search ranking on Google. Search is so much more effective when your business is listed on that first page of search results. Can you remember the last time you clicked “next” on a Google search?

Virtual Tours help build trusting relationships between businesses and customers, service providers and clients, artists and collectors. Design the tour so that it is experienced as a personal information into your showroom or workspace. Most visitors spend more time on websites that have virtual tours, increasing sales and site traffic. Businesses with virtual tours on the whole perform better in Google search and Google Maps.

How are virtual tours implemented?

Businesses use virtual tours of showrooms to attract the attention of potential visitors, reach out to followers and update customers. A carefully crafted virtual tour can give a competitive advantage in today’s marketplace.

We produce a large range of Virtual Tours. They begin at a basic tour with up to 10 panoramas for $500 + GST

We provide a checklist for setting up Google My Business to guide you through the process. You are most likely already on Google Maps. All you need to do is claim your business and be verified. Setup time is quite quick. Click to see what Nuvue Studios listing looks like, here.

Using email autoresponders is one of this e things that can be quite simple or very involved. I use Aweber and it has a free trial period to try it out.

Putting it all together:

When you hire us to produce you Virtual Tour we start by working up a brief with you. The goal is to design an experience for your visitors, their likes and interests in a way that feels right for them. We host the completed Virtual Tour, it can be a significant website in itself, and send you the links or embed code for your site. Your email autoresponder strategy is included in the design, whether you simply want to collect visitor contacts or develop an email marketing strategy. The secret is to design once and use your content across different platforms, Google My Business, Social Media and email.

Thanks for being as excited as I am about getting you results with virtual tours. We are looking forward to working with you and having a lot of fun creating a stellar experience for your community.