Media Tours 360, a service of Rob Armstrong Photography, has recently partnered with Real Tour Vision™ (RTV), the world’s largest and fastest growing virtual tour software provider. As a Real Tour Vision full service provider Media Tours 360 offers state-of-the-art virtual tours and innovative online marketing solutions to local Real Estate Professional and Business Owners in the Charlotte, NC Metro Area. Media Tours 360 has completed proprietary training as a certified RTV full service dealer and will be offering their clients and customers expert advice on internet marketing.

We are really excited about bringing the best in virtual tours, professional photography services and excellent personalized customer service to the Metrolina. Whether you need a full service virtual tour or you just want to increase online exposure of your business or Real Estate listing, we are here to provide you with the expertise you deserve. Call us today to discuss your marketing needs.

Rob Armstrong
Media Tours 360
Charlotte/Metrolina Virtual Tours
www.MediaTours360.com
Order a Virtual Tour (704) 904-3466

A few months ago I received an email from a scuba diving friend I see occasionally and mostly around our shared interest in diving. He was inviting me to join Facebook so I could see his photos and update. I was curious about what he was up to so I joined.

 I had heard about face book in early 2005 when one of the news magazine  programs I watch began to buzz about how Harvard a collegiate created a social network for their student body that became such a hit that another 30 other colleges soon signed on. By fall of  2006 Facebook went public allowing anyone with an e-mail address to join.

Once I had an account the most amazing morphing started happening. I was getting friends request from people I’d gone to college with over 35yrs ago (Here I start to date myself!). I found it both amazing and at times distressing to have a past that feels at this point ancient, in this NOW. Some people where relating to me as if I was the 20 year old they left behind.

During this same time, I was  getting started with Vortex Media Productions virtual tours so as I was growing my new business I was able to use Facebook to get the word out to my friends and get some exposure for the company I was birthing. As I grew with Real Tour Vision, I realized that it wasn't just a virtual tour company but a community & I had a new set of  “friends”, fellow RTV users, and tour providers. These were important contacts to share professional  interest and the virtual tour journey. It gave me exposure to their virtual tours and gave me an opportunity to share my tours of central Colorado. Putting them on Facebook changed the nature of my Facebook “friend.”  There is a social juxtaposition when you start mixing the pictures of  your wild time the night before with the colleagues who now share your Facebook page. With Facebook users now having the option of having a public profile, the social networking capabilities become expanded. As business and personal mix in this ever-changing arena that is Facebook you have to ask, " What happens when your boss asks to be your friend on Face Book?”

Avril Anjers

Vortex Media Productions

Tour Central Colorado Real Estate

http://www.vortexmediaproductions.com

Order a tour today: 719-689-2766

Hello all you fellow Bloggers.  Yes, I typed that with a capital B because I think Blogging is important and I think the Bloggers are priceless.  I had no idea when I signed up with RTV that I would learn so many new things that would improve not only my Web presence but also my web "intelligence". 

I have had a web page for the last year and thought I had it going on but now I am not so sure at all.  I have learned so many new things my head spins every night when I lay down to sleep.  I keep thinking about SEO, Anchor Text, Active Rain, LinkedIn, MySpace, FaceBook, RTV Blog and so on.  WOW, I think a new one comes out everyday.  I wrote one of my first Blogs quite awhile ago, before starting this new part of my life, about being "Left Behind" in the internet world. I think that it gets more true everyday.  I don't know how people that don't have a wonderful mentor like Cheryl Waller will ever get there. 

I am a little oder than the normal New Blogger, and I have no background in computers (other than working on them everyday for years now) but I think everyone that wants to have a successful business had better take a close look at this new form of doing business on the internet.  This is the way of the future and I don't want to be "Left Behind", I want to be right in the middle of it(actually I want to be in the forefront).  Although I  realize that I am not doing all of this perfectly yet I am getting better at it and will continue to hone my skills as I learn more about all of these wonderful new tools that are not only available, but free to those who will take a risk and learn something new. 

It is time consuming at first but it is great to Google yourself and you show up first on the page.  That makes you want to just keep Blogging and linking back more and more.  Like I said, it takes a while to get it right so don't give up.  You may be closer than you think.  So I will continue to follow Cheryl's instruction and Blog weekly, tag frequently, link often, anchor wisely, and believe it or not I am having a blast! 

I am so excited about new technology and new ideas I feel absolutely young again.  I am not looking forward figuring out the blonde parts all over but I will get there.  Don't forget to check out my Blogs on Active Rain, and visit my pages at Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Active Rain and at Carol's Place.  Thanks for reading my blog and let me know what you think about being left behind. 

And to just think, if I hadn't signed up to be a Real Tour Vision Dealer I still wouldn't know all of this.  It may have taken years for me to reach this new height in my skill level on the internet.  Thanks Cheryl and all of you at RTV and RPM.  I really appreciate you.