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Preparing for your Virtual Rabbit Tour
A Virtual Rabbit Tour is a great way to showcase your business or property, and enhance your website! We want you to take full advantage of how our tours can help create more business for you or help sell your real estate listing. So it is important for you to do your part to get ready for the photo shoot.
To get the optimal Virtual Rabbit Tour result, you will want your location to look its very best. It may need cleaning, de-cluttering, staging, or redesign before the photographer's visit. While we are a full service Virtual Tour company when it comes to creating the actual tour, we don't currently have services that encompass the preparation end of things. This is up to you. But we can offer some assistance, suggestions, and referrals.
Important! When the photographer shows up for photo shoot, the scenes need to be ready. He or she is not being paid to help with preparation, nor to wait while last minute preparations are made. The photographer is not going to move furniture, clean or dust, or pick up clutter or trash. So please be on time with your preparations. If you are not ready on time and we have to reschedule the photographer, we will charge a $25 rescheduling fee.
Choosing Scenes
The Virtual Rabbit Tour includes TEN 360° panoramic scenes. Your first job is to look through your location to decide where you would like your scenes to be. Normally we include a couple of external scenes as well, such as the front and rear of your building, a scene of the street, or even one of the neighborhood or nearby landmark.
Inside, choose places that you would like to feature in rooms that you would like to feature. Look for spots that you could envision a tripod easily swivelling to catch the scene with a full 360o turn. This could even be a small area, like a bathroom, because we use super wide angle lenses that can even capture small rooms. Also, include a scene or two of a lobby, foyer, or hallway that you could use to put room connector hot spots on to enhance the connections in your tour.
If you need help choosing scenes, our Virtual Rabbit Tour Consultant will be happy to do a walkthrough with you to help compose the scenes in your tour. If you decide you would like more than 10 scenes in your tour, we can arrange that also.
Cleaning, Staging and Redesign
Once you have chosen your scenes, it is time to get the place ready for the shoot.
Some of our clients are already close to being ready, because clean and tidy is business as usual, or because it is a real estate listing is already on the market and prepped for open houses and the like. If so, a few finishing touches may be all it needs. If more work needs to be done, and you do not have the time or inclination to do it, for a reasonable fee we can stage it for you. Most of our clients prefer to clean and stage themselves.
Here are some pointers:
Businesses
Outside:
- Clean the area around the building, mow grass, trim shrubbery and pull weeds as necessary.
- Rake up leaves.
- Pick up trash and junk that may be visible, including cigarette butts and ashtrays.
- Remove posters and flyers from windows and wash windows if necessary.
- If you have a patio, put out the furniture as you would for your guests.
- Pick up and clear away trash and clutter, including bottles and ashtrays.
- Clear away excess papers and books and tidy up around filing areas.
- Bus tables and clear away food in dining areas, put away food in kitchens.
- Front your inventory on store shelves.
- Vacuum and wash windows as needed.
Residential Property
Outdoors:
- Spruce up your garden and lawn; trim shrubbery if necessary.
- Yard and patio should be neat; outdoor furniture should be in good shape.
- Mow the lawn; make sure the driveway & entryway are free of clutter (toys, bikes, etc.)
- Winter - keep the sidewalks cleared of snow.
- Remove clutter and tidy up the shelves.
- Move excess furniture out of rooms. You want the space clean, open, and clutter-free (dog crates, tray tables, etc.).
- Replace light bulbs (The photographer will need light in most rooms.)
- Clean off kitchen counters; remove any clutter.
- Make sure dirty/clean dishes are out of the sink & put away.
- Empty the garbage can.
- Put essential items used daily in a small box that can be stored away.
- Close toilet lid and empty the garbage.
- Clean mirrors & glass surfaces.
- Hang towels neatly from towel bar.
- Check the basics around the house (indoors & out). It takes just a minute to make sure the house is clutter-free and all is in order.
- For large blank walls, hanging a piece of artwork can often improve appearances.
- Turn on as many lights as you can when the photographer arrives.
- Try not to be in the room the photographer is photographing as you may end up in the photo.
After Your Tour
After your tour is complete you will receive a personal login and password to personalize your tour profile. You will also receive a courtesy call from your account manager to assist you with linking your tour to your home page and editing your tour profile. We want to make sure you are completely satisfied with your new product.