Voyager360.com Saves Brokers $18,000 or More in Real Estate Virtual Tour Costs

Americans are watching 5 million virtual tours a day. Voyager's Do It Yourself Virtual Tour Camera Kits allow brokers to shoot their own 360 tours and save thousands of dollars a year in outside marketing costs once paid to national photo firms. For more details, visit Voyager360.com. End Quote

Thanks to Voyager, I've saved well over $22,000 by taking my own 360 real estate tours and using the Kayyah.com back office. -- John Hoye, Prudential

(1888PressRelease) June 14, 2009 - Santa Fe, NM - Today, Voyager International announced a series of very funny TV commercials featuring real estate brokers who got fed up with paying $18,000 or more on outside real estate virtual tours.

“Our TV commercials are pretty funny, but they drive a good point,” says Bart Wilson, Chief Marketing Officer at Voyager. “Real Estate brokers on average, will list 100 to 300 homes or more a year. At just 100 listings and if the broker uses an outside national photo firm to take their virtual tours for them... they’re spending $10,000 a year on 360 tours. Our 360 complete kit will pay for itself in 30 to 45 days and the broker will save more than $8,000.

Dozens of virtual tour companies have gone out of business and many others right now are on the brink of financial collapse. No virtual tour firm can stay in business by offering cheap virtual tours at $70 or less. Here is how this breaks down: The photographer gets paid $35 to shoot the tour, the middle man gets $30 and when you add in the $19.95 charge to link the 360 tour to Realtor.com, plus the cost of refrigerated server facilities and the people to run them... you don't have to have an MBA to understand that volume selling doesn't make up for short term losses.

This is how firms like Virtual Imaging Corp. V-I-C.com shut down in October, 2008. My Virtual Agents, another national 360 virtual tour firm shut down the year previously along with a list of other failures. When that happens, the broker is left holding the bag with a lot of upset home owners demanding to know where their 360 tours went.

We help brokers avoid these kind of marketing headaches by teaching them how to make their own 360 real estate virtual tours with any virtual tour camera kit that we sell.

Our Do It Yourself 360 virtual tour camera kit has been the leading system when we started the one shot 360 revolution way back in 1997. Our TV commercials featuring David the broker and a real estate agent fed up with her "always late, soccer mom photographer," have gone viral now and have been watched more than 500,000 times in May".

The commercials are on our home page at www.Voyager360.com

Americans watch more than 5 million virtual tours a day, according to a report published by PEW Internet Research which explains the huge spike in new home sales. Home inventory in November 2008 of homes priced at or below $500,000 was 11 months. As of 1 May 2009, home inventory shrank to 5.5 months which technically, means the current housing market slowdown ended sometime in March 2009.

“We’ve been a very happy Voyager customer for more than four years now,” says TJ Tutor, REALTOR at Coldwell Banker Prime Properties. “Voyager’s step by step training on using the virtual tour software, monthly support and their back office cannot be duplicated by other firms. We can link our IDX compliant tours to the local MLS and publish our 360 tours to Realtor.com with just a few mouse clicks. None of this would have been possible without Voyager training and monthly support.

Voyager offers an entry level, Do It Yourself 360 one shot kit, optic and software for just $579 if the broker already has a compatible digital camera. The no-stitch virtual tour software runs on any Mac or PC. For a complete suite of REALTOR creature comforts, Voyager offers the whole enchilada Virtual Tour Kit for $1,879. Complete with training and unlimited hosting.

About Voyager International
Voyager has been the leading source of virtual tour camera kits, virtual tour hosting and REALTOR Internet marketing services which is what keeps our clients at the very top of the real estate food chain. Their work has been favorably reviewed by Inman, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and ABC’s Nightline. Voyager owns and operate the first Open MLS International real estate portal (Kayyah.com) that is 100% free from MLS politics and generates more than 82,000 fee-free leads a month for our subscribers.

Established in 1997, Voyager is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Santa Fe, NM and has offices and affiliates in Canada, the United Kingdom and Dubai. Voyager begins franchising in late 2009.

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