PhotoTours IDX

Welcome to PhotoToursIDX!

For the past 5 years, PhotoTours has been helping Santa Barbara real estate agents promote their listings online with the finest presentation of photographic content and listing information available. Not only are our PhotoTours helpful in selling property, they can also be instrumental in securing new listings. Actually showing an owner how their home will be marketed online is one of the best ways for an agent to differentiate themselves from their competition.

We are also in the business of building Websites and providing listing information that home buyers are looking for.

Study after study has found that when home buyers search for property online, they’re not just looking for prices and descriptive text. A picture can be worth more than a thousand words. If you deliver what a home buyer is looking for, you stand a much better chance of doing business with them. If your Website fails to meet their expectations, they’ll move on and find another agent. It’s that simple!

So the question is: Can you afford to under-deliver what Internet Empowered Consumers are looking for (e.g., photos, photos, and more photos)? We didn’t think so. OK, so what’s the answer?

In addition to our PhotoTour services, we have 2 specific offerings that are guaranteed to deliver what prospective home buyers are looking for. The first is our Featured PhotoTours. Subscribing to this service enables you to showcase on your Website each and every PhotoTour in our system branded with your contact information (e.g., “Brought to you by: <Your Name>). For example, click here.

A second offering is our new MLS Search / IDX solution. We know that this is a pretty bold statement but we sincerely believe that PhotoToursIDX is superior to any other IDX product currently on the market. There are a number of reasons why we feel we can make this claim, but we’ll let you be the judge.

As you might expect, we display property photos that are large, clear, and easily viewable. And, we’re the only IDX solution provider to offer virtual tour links.

To compare PhotoToursIDX to other solutions, we invite you to click on any of the links below. In terms of image size and quality, we think you’ll find that there’s no comparison between our solution and our competition.

(Note: We used to be able to say that mlsfinder did a terrible job of displaying their images but they've since changed their layout and now only display one (blurry) photo. iHomefinder’s images are also small - unless you click on the ‘view all photos’ link and, then, you’ll see some very blurry images. Ditto Prudential and Coldwell Banker.)

Ours is also the solution that is RETS-compliant – which means that our listing information is updated HOURLY (not daily). As a result, prospective buyers who visit your site will not only view more current listing information, those who sign up to receive New Listing Updates will receive them more frequently (i.e., hourly)!

We are also proud to announce that we've developed the Association's Public MLS Search and Open House Directory.

Regarding search criteria and results, please note that:

Selecting ‘Cities’ is simple and intuitive. We’ve even included Hope Ranch as a ‘City’. Pre-selecting ‘Cities’ and/or Neighborhoods / Areas’ is an easy setup option.
Our ‘Cities’ mirror the ‘Districts’ used in FlexMLS (e.g., Montecito = District 10; Santa Barbara = Districts 15, 20 & 25, etc.). Accordingly, our search results are more accurate. For example, when a Montecito listing is entered with Santa Barbara as the City, it does not show up in a Montecito (City) search. This is not the case with our IDX solution.
People who are familiar with the Santa Barbara area and already know where they want to live can search by ‘Neighborhood / Area’ (Enhanced version only).
Parents who want their children to be able to attend a specific school can refine their search by ‘School’.
It's possible to search by Address, MLS #, Zip Code, and Key Words (e.g., text in the Property Details field.
Search results conveniently display 20 to a page AND on a Google Map (Enhanced version only).

In addition to a completely customizable user interface, we offer a host of implementation options that make Website integration a snap. In other words, we can easily make our IDX interface match the design / color scheme of your Website. There are numerous other features worth mentioning, like New Listing Notifications and Lead Capture. We welcome you to take a test drive and see for yourself (click here.

Below is our Introductory Price List:

	Monthly Charge	Annual Charge	Setup Fee	Savings
Featured PhotoTours	$50	$500	$250
PhotoToursIDX – Basic	$10	$100	$100
PhotoToursIDX - Enhanced	$40	$400	$100

Introductory / Package Pricing
Featured PhotoTours & PhotoToursIDX - Basic	$50	$500	$250	$200

Featured PhotoTours & PhotoToursIDX - Enhanced	$70	$700	$250	$300

Note: The Enhanced version includes the following features not available in the Basic version:

Google Maps
Area / Neighborhood Search feature
Additional Search Criteria
New Listing Updates
Lead Capture

The most compelling of the above features are the New Listing Updates & Lead Capture. New Listing Updates enable home buyers to receive e-mail notifications when new listings matching their search criteria are added to FlexMLS (on an hourly basis). The Lead Capture feature notifies you when people sign up for New Listing Updates. In addition to their name, e-mail address and phone number, you’ll also have access to their search criteria.

Thank you in advance for your consideration of PhotoTour offerings. We look forward to hearing from you.

(805) 563-7788