About Virtual Tours

Virtual Tours are a 360° photographic image of a particular room, vehicle or area, controlled by the user, bringing them much closer to your business.

The user can pan up and down, left and right on any axis and may focus and zoom in on a chosen point. If you take out more than one tour, the tours can be connected via hotspots, which will mean that people can click to be directed to another associated tour! This could be used to move from room to room within a building, for example.

Virtual Tours may be added to a website, used in presentations, provided to your customers via e mail or added to a disc to create an interactive brochure. Virtual Tours are a marketing tool which gives you a clear advantage over your competition, by making the viewer feel as if they are actually within the space you are promoting. This results in visitors to your website staying longer and a higher rate of interest and sales being generated from the site.

Once you have purchased and received your Virtual Tour, it is yours forever to use as you see fit. We would very much like to know how our clients have used their Virtual Tours and what feedback they have received from customers and other viewers as a result. Please use our contact form to tell us your Virtual Tour news and stories.

Potential Uses For Virtual Tours

One of the purposes of the Virtual Tour is to enhance the aesthetics of a website, and make it more attractive and more appealing to the users who visit. By having an interactive piece of software on the website, which gives a great insight into the quality of the business, users are going to stay on the site for longer, and they will remember the site more than the others they have visited, which may only have contained plain text, or flat images.

If you have a listing with the Business Finder Directory (www.businessfinder.co.uk), your Virtual Tours can be added to the bubble which displays your information.

You may wish to provide information, including Virtual Tours to your own customers in the form of interactive brochures, with the ability to either email these or burn them onto disc.

Ordering and Delivery of Tours

We work with a professional photography team that specialises in Virtual Tours. Once your order has been placed, they get in touch with you and arrange a time and date to visit the site and take the photographs. The whole process of placing a Virtual Tour onto the Internet should really take no longer than two weeks from sale, depending on how quickly an appointment can be made and occasionally on lighting conditions.

Access, Lighting and Staging Conditions

Flash photography is not an option in the photographing of Virtual Tours, therefore for interior shots, the photographer may recommend that interior lights be switched on. For external shots, the best results will be obtained in good weather (not raining, foggy etc) and with reasonable levels of daylight.