Tim Hammer comes to Visiting Media as a longtime TrueTour™ customer from Kimpton Hotels and Resorts. We’ve asked Tim a few questions to get to know him better and learn why he is excited to lead the Visiting Media sales team and help properties sell their spaces and increase revenue in the new normal.
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Integrating your CRM, DAM, RFP/RFI platform, marketing automation software and other third-party channels is becoming real with TrueTour™ X.
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Combining the efficiency of a digital asset management tool with the effectiveness of virtual sales enablement brings us to the next evolution in virtual selling. In this post we share some cold, hard facts about the future of hospitality selling in this accelerated reopening phase.
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Looking for a way to increase your selling impact and improve ROI on your immersive investment? The data-driven results are undeniable. When using TrueTour visuals early and often during the RFP process, the closing rates and the return on our customer’s TrueTour investment increases substantially.
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In today’s world, marketing efficiency is not only mission-critical, it‘s a business imperative. One of the best ways to improve the ROI of your marketing channel programs is to increase engagement within each of those channels. And one of the best ways to increase engagement is by serving up immersive and interactive content to your audience.
That’s why we’ve partnered with Scott Meldrum, founder of Digitality, a leading digital hospitality consulting agency, to host this dynamic educational webinar, which you can watch right on our blog!
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Due to popular demand, we’re excited to provide an enhanced product line from our CGI division. Now you can work with our designers to create fully custom TrueTour™ CGI decor setups built right into your 360°s!
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Hilton Hotels and Resorts are beginning to reintegrate TrueTour™ across their OneHeroWeb websites! This is an exciting new development to help increase selling efficiency and virtually invite guests into Hilton’s property as early as possible in their buying cycle.
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Our customers have responded to this new normal in unprecedented ways. We’re thrilled to highlight some of our favorite ways our hotel and resort customers have integrated TrueTour across their websites.
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When selling Premium and Luxury hotel experiences, properties must feature the most high definition and high speed visuals. But it also needs to provide a white-glove experience for the viewer.
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As the most important technology to keep in the budget for 2021, any company which relies on selling physical spaces cannot do business without virtual selling and sales enablement software. Companies who understand this look to Visiting Media to provide the most comprehensive virtual selling software on the market. Virtual sales enablement is the most important factor in your future revenue stream, and is distinctly different from a simple virtual tour.
Here, we lay out 5 differences between using a “virtual tour” and the process of virtual selling.
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Take a break and explore the world from a bird’s eye view! TrueTour™ customers are located in some of the most stunning destinations around the world. With their TrueTour™ Aerial 360°s, they can show visitors the sights, sounds and proximity to other attractions nearby. Come take a look!
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Property groups increasingly rely on sales enablement technology when syndicating their remote sales efforts. Yet, sales enablement platforms traditionally do not address the needs of cluster/podded sales team or include any virtual selling capabilities.
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As virtual touring and buying becomes the norm, not the exception, Select Service properties can take advantage of affordable virtual visit and site tour technology once believed attainable only for luxury or full-service properties. TrueTour™ provides packages fit for each level of service and accommodation, and is the right way to show the specific features and benefits that elevate select service above their competition. Because TrueTour allows properties to pick and choose their content combinations, each property asset is showcased to highlight their most effective selling points.
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Visiting Media has launched TrueTour CGI!
Using CGI technology, Visiting Media can produce exceptionally lifelike computer generated images showing socially distanced events within your venues – rounds, classroom, U-shape, lecture, weddings, and more – complete with photo-realistic event decor. With TrueTour™ CGI, you have access to photo-realistic CGI visuals of your venues based on new capacity requirements, all within a matter of days!
You already know the power of immersive visuals, so let us help you put your customer’s minds at ease by showing them what your safe and compliant events look like.
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Hotels and resorts continue to watch, wait and wonder when they’ll see through the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic. That doesn’t mean that virtual business has slowed down – in fact, it’s the exact opposite!
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Traditional photo shoots can be very expensive and time-consuming to produce. Production fees, editing costs, licensing, not to mention the lost opportunity costs for the days of unrented space. All of the short-and-long-term expenses can take a substantial chunk of your marketing costs off the table for the year. That’s why Visiting Media is excited to provide an alternative to such a hefty investment.
If you’ve walked a customer through your property using Facetime and your smartphone, TrueTour™ Drive will be your new favorite tool! TrueTour™ X includes this revolutionary new way to showcase your spaces to a customer in real time.
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Join us for a special webinar providing event sales teams with innovative ways to showcase their spaces from afar. Learn from Ben Powers, Vice President of Sales, Hotel and Resort Division, as he shares the numerous opportunities sellers have to safely host site tours and FAM meetings at a distance with TrueTour.
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The latest in our TrueTour™ X feature series details a brand-new RFI gateway built as an add-on feature, loading directly into the TrueTour X platform. TrueTour’s RFI gateway will provide hospitality companies a syndicated way to effortlessly capture leads, deliver property details and respond with custom-built TrueTour experiences and bespoke proposals.
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Despite lockdowns, closures and quarantines around the world, the global tourism industry is leveraging immersive sales technology to weather the storm. Using new 360°/3D site visit technology to perform digital walk-throughs, plan future events at a distance and increase bookings, the safety of corporate planners, travel buyers and employees are kept as a top priority while saving the bottom line.
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Over the next 8 weeks, we’ll be providing a sneak peek into the latest features included in the next evolution of the TrueTour hospitality selling platform. If you haven’t read our blog post about this next version of TrueTour, called “TrueTour X,” please do; it’s going to blow your mind! The industry hasn’t seen technology like this before: a cutting-edge, game-changing platform with a fresh user interface and features you’ve been asking for (and some you probably never thought possible!).
Today, we start with one aspect of TrueTour X which is out-of-this-world — literally. The team has lovingly given this tool the nickname “TrueTour Holodeck”. If you thought virtual reality was from the future, this TrueTour X feature is right out of a science fiction novel.
Coming early 2021, TrueTour™ Version X will introduce previously unthinkable sales and marketing tools to planet Earth, truly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible when it comes to promoting hotels and resorts. Developed through super-user feedback, thought leadership, data-based invention and top industry R&D, this new TrueTour™ platform version combines many existing selling tools along with powerful immersive visuals to create a true selling super-tool… you truly have to experience it to understand the impact TrueTour™ X will have across the hospitality industry.
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We’re thrilled announce the January 1st, 2020 launch of TrueTour Video, our full-service, in-house video production division! Our customers now enjoy a suite of bespoke property video products designed to make selling easier and provide high quality content for marketing teams!
Powered by your TrueTour™ app, these videos integrate onto websites, into sales proposals, onto RFP platforms, and more — just like your current traditional and immersive content.
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Integrating TrueTour onto your website is an important step when taking advantage of the power of immersive marketing. We sat down with Brian Lawrence, expert web designer and marketer in the wedding industry who thoroughly understands the elements which engage and inspire brides and grooms to take action. He knows how to convert browsers into leads and drive engagement online.
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In the past 30 days we’ve released a number of new, highly anticipated features that dramatically improve the capabilities of TrueTour™, delivering significant impact for our customers. Take a look at a few of the things we’ve been working on behind the scenes:
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Here at Visiting Media, we’re not simply selling you groundbreaking 3D and 360° visuals. What sets us apart from a traditional “virtual tour” or “3D modeling” provider is the best practices and advice from our Support Team members, who can plan and execute on a seamless user experience for you based on their years of experience working with clients facing your exact challenges.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club has leveraged TrueTour to drive significant ROI for their event and private club membership business. Get an in-depth look at the simple steps Pumpkin Ridge has taken to multiply their efforts with the help of Visiting Media and the TrueTour™ APP. Continue Reading…
As Visiting Media grows and evolves, so does our mission. Looking back at the origins of our company, when this fully-customizable immersive selling tool was vividly housed in our imagination, it was impossible to envision this day nearly a decade later.
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For consumer and hospitality brands, environmental ethics is a touch-point your consumers care deeply about. According to a 2019 study, about two thirds of US travelers (66%) believe people need to act now and make sustainable travel choices to save the planet for future generations.