A 360 virtual tour allows your prospective customer the ability to navigate your entire space on their own and explore your location through a series of 360 degree images that have been stitched together to showcase your space. This gives them a fully immersive experience to see your space as though they were right there in person. Realtors have been utilizing 360 tours for a few years to help sell homes at a faster rate and now business owners are starting to see the advantage of this technology to help increase their online visibility and gain new customers.
Here's a 360 virtual tour of one of our latest projects...
A standard video is like watching a commercial for your space while a 360 virtual tour is actually EXPERIENCING what it's like to be there. Potential customers have a fully immersive experience where they can look around 360 degrees and navigate through your space at their own pace in ways that you just can't do in a standard video. We can also embed "hotlinks" directly in the tour for users to click on which can help drive sales or reservations for your business. By utilizing both a virtual tour AND video, you can leverage whichever tool works best based on your marketing plan.
A "hotlink" is a custom icon that can be added directly into your 360 virtual tour that a prospective customer can click on while exploring your space and will open up a picture, video, text field or can be a link that connects them directly to your online store to purchase a product or make a reservation or view a menu.
For example, if your space is a gym, we can embed a hotlink over a particular piece of equipment that when a user clicks it, a video pops up of a personal trainer demonstrating that machine (see screenshot example below). If you own a salon, we can add a hotlink over merchandise on a shelf that redirects to a page for a user to buy that item now. For restaurants and nightclubs, we can add a hotlink to each of your VIP sections or tables that forward a customer to book a reservation for that exact table after they have seen the exact view from there in your 360 tour. Social media links are most commonly added as a hotlink and the possibilities of integrating these with your existing website are virtually limitless!
AlphaVirtual 360 by G.Watson Images is your one stop shop for anything photo or video related for your business needs. Our Virtual Tour base package starts with a 360 virtual tour created to embed on your own website and use via direct link to showcase on social media or send to prospective clients via email. As a Google Street View Trusted photographer, in one of our upgraded tours, we can upload your completed virtual tour to your Google business page to be viewable to anyone in the world via Street View and Google Maps. The upgraded packages includes not only the Google Street View upload, but also various media embedded in your tour via hotlinks and can also include drone footage for a truly dynamic intro!
86% of people look up the location of a business on Google Maps. One of the most important things you can do for your business is to claim your Google Business Page. This is how Google will rank you and it’s how your customers will find you. Your business page accounts for 14% of your ranking power, and listings with photos and a virtual tour are twice as likely to generate interest so it’s important that you claim your business, get your information up to date and showcase a 360 virtual tour. Customers who find you via Google, Google Maps & Street View are able to enter and see inside of your business and "walk around", giving your business a very unique and exciting marketing experience that your customers will view, share & interact with. Google Street View is available across all devices; desktop, tablet and mobile and your 360 tour of your business can even be shared on your Facebook page to help you stand out from the crowd and your competitors. This is the trend happening NOW! AlphaVirtual 360 can help business owners be visible to customers via Google, Google+, Google Maps & Street View.
Here's a Google Street View version of an AlphaVirtual 360 virtual tour...
Here's a 360 virtual tour of one of our latest projects...Here's a 360 virtual tour of one of our latest projects...The cost for a 360 virtual tour varies based on the needs of your business and size of your location. We start with a free on site consultation to see the space and discuss your goals and needs. We then put together a plan starting with our base package and then can add on items depending on your goals and budget. As a division of G.Watson Images, standard photo and video packages (as well as licensed and insured PART 107 drone work) can be added to your AlphaVirtual 360 virtual tour. For residential or commercial real estate, prices vary based on square footage, listing price and number of 360 virtual tours a realtor may need on a month to month basis. Please contact me for more information on real estate pricing.
Contact us today to set up a free in person consultation where we'll sit down and discuss the details and needs of your business and you'll get a chance see some of the latest examples of what AlphaVirtual 360 has done for recent clients. You'll leave our meeting with an idea of how we can help to increase your business's online visibility as well as a price quote for your existing space.