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VisualTour.com™
Contact: J. L. Winn, TRF Systems, Inc. REALTOR.com® announces Partnership with VisualTour.com® Coral Springs, FL -May 15, 2003- REALTOR.com® today announced a partnership which enables customers of VisualTour.com®, a leading self-service provider of virtual tour services, to take full advantage of the REALTOR.com® Web site to expose their virtual tours to the largest audience of homebuyers and sellers online. The partnership will enable VisualTour's customer base of thousands of REALTORS® to post their tours directly to REALTOR.com® and across the Internet via the Virtual Tour Distribution Network, which includes more than 600 national, regional, broker, office and branded real estate Web sites, which accept virtual tours from REALTOR.com®. REALTOR.com® and VisualTour anticipate the posting process will be implemented early this summer. Previously, VisualTour customers could only link their tours via HTML, which required REALTORS® to code the information into their REALTOR.com® listing enhancements. Now, as a result of the partnership, VisualTours will also be integrated seamlessly into the REALTOR.com® site and benefit from all its popular consumer features, including the "Virtual Tours First" search ranking. "We are pleased to be working with VisualTour, one of the most popular virtual tour solutions in the industry. We strongly believe that our partnership will boost the number of virtual tours on REALTOR.com, which benefits both REALTOR.com Marketing System members and the more than 5.3 million home buyers and sellers who search the site for homes each month," said Allan Dalton, REALTOR.com's® President. "We're excited about offering this new service, enabling our customers to post their virtual tour content directly onto REALTOR.com. This partnership will provide more exposure for our customers' listings by promoting them on the number one real estate Web site and to hundreds of others within the distribution network. With the ability to integrate virtual tour scenes directly into REALTOR.com, consumers will find our customers and their listings more easily than ever with REALTOR.com's 'Virtual Tours First' search feature," states Steve Jarrell, VisualTour's CEO. With a direct link on listing enhancements, VisualTour.com virtual tours will benefit from the recent redesign of the REALTOR.com® site. Since launching last month, the site's redesign has nearly doubled traffic to REALTORS'® listing detail pages as well as doubled the number of emails sent to REALTOR.com® Marketing System members, according to internal figures. For more information about the PicturePath™ virtual tour partnership program or other virtual tours services from REALTOR.com®, please visit http://imaging.REALTOR.com or email: vtdistribution@REALTOR.com.
About VisualTour® VisualTour (www.VisualTour.com) is developed by TRF Systems, Inc. of Coral Springs, Florida. . Incorporated in 1991, TRF Systems is the leading provider of innovative visual marketing solutions in the real estate industry. The VisualTour system is recommended by the Council of Residential Specialists, the Allen F. Hainge CyberStars™, and the Real Estate CyberSpace Society. For more information, please contact J. L. Winn at TRF Systems at 800.873.0700 x220 or by email at JLWinn@VisualTour.com. VisualTour.com and VisualTour are trademarks of TRF Systems. |
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