Jason LaVanture's (bluelavamedia) Blog

A BIG THANK YOU!!  Thank you for your interest in my success as a provider of Southern Michigan virtual tours. I am, and will continue to working hard each and every day to become the #1 source for interactive 360 virtual tours in my Lenawee and Monroe County area. Your virtual tour support is aw...

Got Vacant Listings? You might decide to accomplish a complete remodeling and decoration of the house which can become rather expensive. If you decide to remodel or decorate remember you are doing it for the general public. Do not forget to draft a budget and look for a professional remodeler to ...

We started our Grand Junction Virtual Tour Company in the summer of 2005, now almost five years ago, and found a quick response to our photography and virtual tour technology. We’ve been full time since then, and added website development to the mix of services to spread the exposure to the real ...

A couple of recent incidents have prompted me to write this blog to address the efficacy of virtual tours and what they do and do not do.  Recently, a good client of mine over heard an associate of his make the comment “Virtual Tours don’t work”. Then has a tenant of a house that is for sale, I h...

Become A Pro! If you service the Real Estate Industry, you need to check this out: ForSaleByOwner.com created the Find a Pro network for their customers who demanded a reliable source of Pros to assist them during the FSBO process. Join their network of Pros and get connected to buyers and seller...

I see so many virtual tour providers out there struggling to get their name and brand in circulation. Failing to turn the turn the corner in sales and reach out to that next group of customers that really kicks your business in overdrive.  Sure it's great to book ten to twelve tours a week but w...

I started my virtual tour business in 2005.  My REALTOR had just sold our home and he became my first V tour customer.  I couldn’t believe I was getting paid for work that I really enjoyed doing.  In order to build the virtual tour company though, I had to get organized.  That meant creating an i...

Have you heard about the upcoming changes to the RTV Dealer Site Program? If you watched the Formula 25 webinar, then you already heard about and saw the first phase, the Agent Site Program, that's about to roll out next week. Offer your real estate or developer clients a website they can manage ...

RTV not only dispatches hundreds of virtual tour orders each month for our national accounts, but we also receive several hundred leads for virtual tour service requests each month. In this situation I took a phone call in the virtual tour sales department and it happened to be a lead for this g...

Your favorite FORMULA series, Setting up Shop, is back for another action packed virtual tour webinar that’s sure to be filled with lots of great information.  This time we'll be discussing how to generate virtual tour sales for new or existing virtual tour companies. You’ve got your website in p...