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Link your Walkthrough Video to Zillow and other portals<\/h1>\n

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We have already eliminated the #1 complaint with Matterport – that it takes too long to navigate through a property.\u00a0 We do this by sequency the walkthrough within Matterport by creating snapshots of each space to walk the user through the home in a logical manner.\u00a0 So with the push of the Play button, a user can be guided through the home in about 3-4 minutes, all without lifting a finger.\u00a0 We basically make the Matterport a video experience, but users can still click anywhere and explore manually if desired.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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We have also been creating a video addon, the Walkthrough Video<\/strong>, which is a screen recording of the Matterport-based walkthrough enhanced with intro and outro slides with your info, music, speed ramps and effects along with both branded and unbranded horizontal videos (for the tour or embedding elsewhere) and a vertical video that is optimized for each room view for social media.\u00a0 The standard price for this addon with the 3 videos is $50.\u00a0 Your account may reflect a different price based on the corporate deals in place with your brokerage.\u00a0 Its a great value and creates cool content you can use in multiple ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Now is the best time to leverage this Walkthrough Video addon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you may know, there is a current dispute between Zillow and Matterport’s parent company, Costar, around various content use issues.\u00a0 The bottom line is Costar does not want Zillow to use content it creates exclusively for its service offerings, such as marketing services it provides for Apartments.com and Homes.com direct customers.\u00a0 Costar claims exclusive display rights to the content it<\/span> creates…but that only applies to content Costar creates, not the hundreds of thousands of properties that were scanned by 3rd parties like HomeDiary using the Matterport platform.\u00a0 However, Zillow has decided to just remove ALL Matterport links regardless of who did the Matterport scan, including from their photographer platform some of our competitors use, Areyo, which means if someone uses Areyo (Zillow) as their photography platform, their virtual tours will not be able to display Matterport.\u00a0 Its a bad move for the consumer, and you, by Zillow.\u00a0 If you have a paid relationship with Zillow you should let them know your opinion on this move.<\/p>\n

So to combat this move by Zillow, our Walkthrough Video addon can be added to your MLS as an additional virtual tour link IF they support more than one virtual tour<\/strong>.\u00a0 If your MLS only supports one virtual tour link, we highly recommend you continue to post the HomeDiary virtual tour as the virtual tour.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 3 reasons:<\/p>\n

1. Our tour includes our patented Brandkeepr process<\/a>, so the branded tour should be seen when clicked on from Zillow.com, Realtor.com, Redfin.com and even your own company and personal website if set up in your profile.\u00a0 This gets you more FREE buyer and seller leads because as research shows, people want to work with agents that provide the kind of content we create with our Interactive FloorPlan & 3D Walkthrough Tours.\u00a0 That is how Valerie made an additional $75,000 in commission.<\/p>\n

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As I can attest, the HomeDiary Platform by FloorPlanOnline can help you get more business<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

I received a call from a potential buyer who saw one of my listings online. \u00a0While the home sold quickly and she was too late, she was so impressed with my marketing presentation, powered by HomeDiary, she not only hired me to sell her high-end home, but I helped her buy her new one, too. That one listing was responsible for an additional $2.5M in sales<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/u><\/u>I would not have gotten the new client\u00a0<\/strong>by providing just photos.<\/strong> \u00a0This buyer specifically called me based on my HomeDiary virtual tour presentation. That\u2019s why the HomeDiary platform is my go-to team for creating amazing content for my sellers, as well as a tool for new buyers through its HomeDiary Claim Home integration, which can be a channel of new business too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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2. You can further enhance the branded tour with branded photos, videos, documents and text to differentiate the listing and you further.\u00a0 When you add additional content, just select the toggle that says Contains Branded Content<\/em><\/strong> and it will only show on the branded version of the virtual tour.<\/p>\n

3. Our tour includes all the content for the listing we create and you can even embed other content into it, so one link has ALL the content needed, and on select sites it can show your info too.\u00a0 As the primary virtual tour, it should get distributed everywhere, and on your competitor websites they will see the unbranded tour, as required per the IDX rules.<\/p>\n

Matterport is the best 3D visualization tool for properties, which is why we have used it for 10 years now, and it allows us to import the Matterport into our own floor plan engine to create highly accurate floor plans that can get passed on to the buyer so they can use and edit post sale, and you also have full edit control.\u00a0 It also includes our interactive 3D space planner\/designer, an HGTV-like floor planner tool.\u00a0 We even have a Certified Square Footage addon in select markets if you want to really know the true size of your listing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the hands of the buyer, our floor plan tool can be used to visualize furniture placement, add or remove walls to visualize remodeling ideas, change flooring or wall colors to experiment with updates, and it can even be used for landscape or exterior property improvements.\u00a0 92% of buyers surveyed by the WAV Group indicated they valued the ability to drag and drop furniture to check for size and placement.\u00a0 We go way beyond this with our tool, as it can be used to visualize interior and exterior projects, like you see below for my house where I used it to map out our artificial turf area for our dogs, as well as visualize size and placement for a new pool which can include the square footage of hardscape areas like stamped concrete.\u00a0 You can see I was able to add a drone photo and overlay the floor plan and pool layout on top of this as a layer.\u00a0 Pretty cool, and very useful as a homeowner!<\/p>\n

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Many of our competitors are now resorting to much cheaper platforms and the user experience is horrible, not to mention the quality of the 3D tour and floor plans created is vastly inferior (i.e., not accurate, less features, bad visuals) to what Matterport converted into the HomeDiary floor plans can provide.\u00a0 Zillow’s 3D Home tour for example has no visual enhancement of the 360 images captured so things are typically dark and yellow (so your listing’s visual is not presented well), the user interface is clunky and awkward, and the floor plans their system creates are not accurate.\u00a0 On our demo house, the Zillow floor plan created from their 3D tour was 13.7% OFF from the certified square footage number.<\/strong> Individual room measurements, as a result, were also off.\u00a0 Plus, everyone else just provides a PDF or jpeg of the floor plan – HomeDiary is the only platform providing interactive 2D & 3D versions of the floor plan usable over time.\u00a0 Don’t your listings, and sellers, deserve the best?<\/p>\n

The Walkthrough Video is just a derivative of what we are already doing, but it allows you to post it to YouTube or social media sites, or embed it on your own website or email distribution system for additional content and discussion opportunities.\u00a0 When we create the video, we upload it to our Vimeo account so you have a hosted video you can use as an additional \u201cvirtual tour\u201d link if your MLS supports more than one virtual tour link.\u00a0 Seattle and Austin support up to 3 virtual links, for example, which can be our tour, the Matterport and\/or video links.\u00a0 Zillow will pick it up as a video since the URL will be vimeo.com not Matterport.com<\/strong> (and if your listing is Showcase we can now embed the video on Zillow if we did the Showcase work for you) and other sites may even embed both the Matterport and video version of it on your listing’s page (such as Redfin). Plus you can embed it anywhere else, download it and do further edits, like add your own voiceover, and it will be displayed on your HomeDiary virtual tour as a Walkthrough video by default (you can always turn it off from showing under the Presentation settings).<\/p>\n

Click the videos below to see examples of these upgraded videos.<\/p>\n

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Examples of Walkthrough Videos<\/h2>\n

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