Market Your FSBO Property With A Domain Name

When we finished up this interactive virtual tour for 700 Country Club Lane in Walla Walla, the owner wanted to be able to market the property in a different yet effective way.

This beautiful home is for sale by owner in Walla Walla

We decided to go ahead and grab the domain name www.700CountryClub.com and attach it to the virtual tour window. He could then use the domain name as a sign in the front yard of the property. These signs are called “PanoRiders” and are visible from the street. When a prospective buyer drives by the home, they can easily remember the website address because it is the same as the street address.

The buyer can then bring up the virtual tour on his browser at home or on his Mobil device and quickly take a look at the home inside and out!
All of the MLS information is clearly visible at the tour window as well as contact information in the event that the prospect is interested in taking a “real” tour of the property.

Another great addition we make to the already powerful Virtual Tour is a nice post to our Issuu page.

By first having us build an interactive virtual tour and then following it up with a custom domain name is a proven method of gaining more interest in property. Does it make sense to pay for full color ads in the newspaper anymore?

If you would like to discuss gaining added interest to your Walla Walla properties through new and innovative website marketing, please contact us at wwtourguide@bmi.net

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Personalized Wedding Website A Great Way To Stay In Contact With Friends And Family

Keeping in touch with your wedding guests by using a personalized wedding website is how it’s done in the 21st century! In the past, all an engaged couple could do was to send out “save the date” cards and then “engagement announcements” through the mail.

I would never suggest eliminating the very important, not to mention etiquette safe traditions of mailing your announcements to all of your friends and family.
We now have the convenience of adding a personal wedding website.

I was introduced to a good wedding website provider at www.eWedding.com. Like most, you can choose from several templates for FREE or you can pay a small amount and get some added space or bandwidth.

wedding website host-eWedding.com

Actually, if you Google wedding websites, you will find there are a lot of online hosts that allow you to easily create your own wedding website by simply entering your information and details.

Your website can be as simple as an online announcement, however, the really cool features like wish lists, gift registry, your history as a couple and favorite photographs are really simple to add. The extra content that you add will be entertaining and informational for all who visit.

As a photographer (www.harmanportraits.com), I see it as a great way for a couple to show off their wedding portraits and to link back to their proofing site that we provide. No longer are wedding photographs stuffed, unseen, into a photo book or dark closet! Now the world can see your wedding!

I recommend every couple at least try out this new mode of communication.  It just may simplify the tedious task of staying in touch with your guests.

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Ryan and Darlene Engagement Portraits

We photographed Ryan and Darlene’s wedding engagement portraits Saturday morning on the Whitman College here in Walla Walla.  Our engagement portrait sessions are designed not only to get some great photography of newly engaged couples, but to get a chance to work closely with a couple to sort of give them a taste of what their wedding portraits will be like.

Obviously, if we all are getting along great and the couple is having fun, then it just makes everyone feel comfortable being photographed.

Getting in up close and personal helps create a fun atmosphere and really takes care of any “nerves” and unnatural expressions!

A kiss under a tree ends the perfect morning portrait session.

For more pictures of this great couple, visit our website:

www.harmanportraits.com and go to our “proofing” page!

Dean Harman

Harman Portrait Photography

541-938-7079

e-mail: dean@harmanportraits.com

Website: www.harmanportraits.com

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Virtual Tour of 1840 Fern Walla Walla WA

This is a Virtual Tour we completed of a custom built home in Walla Walla back in January of this year. I wanted to give this client a little marketing boost for spring so a new Craigslist ad was created and sent on up to Seattle Washington.

Craigslist ad link: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/reo/1121433308.html (real estate – by owner)

Interactive Virtual Tour link: (click on picture below to view the tour!)

1840 Fern Ave. Walla Walla WA

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Walla Walla Wedding Dream Team

It has been a long hard winter here on the Walla Walla River.  Snow, rain, sleet, wind, I thought it would never stop.  Then it got nice for awhile in January but all that bad weather came again.

But, this week I saw robins jumping around my lawn so that means only one thing.  Spring in wine country is finally here!

Naturally, when spring is here, that means people are starting to really take seriously and plan for their upcoming summer and fall weddings here in Walla Walla!

I just thought it would be nice to put a good word in for my personal wedding vendor friends out there and provide you with some links to their websites.

Sometimes it is really hard to find the right vendor for your wedding so I put together a “Dream Team” of vendors that I can personally vouch for.

These people all do a superb job and whether you are having a wedding at a Walla Walla winery or your backyard, they all take weddings seriously so you can defiantly trust each one.

I call it the “Dream Team” because if you were to hire all of these wedding vendors you would have a Dream Wedding with no worries!  Just let us do all the fussing about.

Of course, I would be happy to do your wedding photography and I hope you will give me a call, but for now, here is the “Wedding Dream Team” at your service!

Call this a little gift from HarmanPortraits.com.

Favorite Venue:

Basel Cellars Estate Winery (www.baselcellars.com)

Join their wine club so you can use their facility!  The most outrageous place to get married…and wine?!! You gotta be kidding.  A rockin summer party! Your guests will never forget your wedding.

The reception area at the Basel Cellars pool

Basel Cellars wedding venue

Photos from Basel Cellars Estate Winery and Resort www.baselcellars.com

Favorite flower lady:

Flowers 4 Rent (www.flowersforrent.com)

Norita Dahlin has the eye for the perfect combinations of flowers.  And the best part?  You rent them!  They never fade in the hot sun and they won’t drip on your dress because, although you could never notice, her flowers are made from acrylic but they feel like the real thing.  She is such a gracious person, I bet if you asked her really nicely to send you a sample, she would!

Artificial flowers from Flowers For Rent in Walla Walla

A beautiful bridal boquet from FlowersForRent.com

Pictures of artificial flowers from www.flowersforrent.com

Favorite Food guy:

Graze Catering in Walla Walla (www.grazeevents.com)

OK, talk about a great spread!  You can smell the chicken cooking on the BBQ while you’re watching the wedding!  Your guests can’t wait to get in line at the reception, and isn’t that what makes a great reception?  ..The food?

I once overheard a guest at one of John Grazes catered weddings say “Man, beer and hot wings! What else could anyone want at a wedding?”  I think it was the guy in this photo wearing the snazzy blue vest who said it.  Go John and Tracy Graze!

Read about GrazeEvents catering services here.

Beer and hotwings!

Colorful entre from Graze Events Catering in Walla Walla

Pictures from www.grazeevents.com

Favorite Party Supply:

Sandys U Rent (www.SandysUrent.com)

Toni Thorne over at Sandys U Rent in Walla Walla can provide your wedding with everything, and I mean everything, from candles to napkins to linens.  She can even set you up with canopies and tents.  I have seen one of her tents that you could host a whole circus inside!  Except that it is a very elegant tent, with lights and heaters and even drapes!  You wouldn’t want to set a bunch of elephants loose in there but you could set a bunch of wedding guests loose and they would be happy as a tribe of monkeys in a bananna boat!

Tent from Sandys U Rent in Walla Walla at night wedding reception

A tent from Sandys U Rent can add elegance at any reception

Just a couple of tents that www.SandysUrent.com offers!

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New Virtual Tour by Dean Harman

724 Bedford Loop in College Place Washington

I just finished up a new interactive virtual tour for Trisha Bush at Preferred Properties in Walla Walla Washington.

This is another cool virtual tour for the Walla Walla area and can be accessed by anyone by clicking on the link below:

http://rtvpix.com/RE-7362-033AJK-01

This home is brand new and was built in 2008 by Jeff Moeller Construction in Walla Walla and was featured in the 1^st annual Walla Walla Parade of Homes by Trisha Bush.

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Video Juice – Wine Videos, Food Videos, Beer Videos & Spirit Videos

Video Juice – Wine Videos, Food Videos, Beer Videos & Spirit Videos

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Tour the Wine Cellar

Photo tour of Basel Cellars wine cellar

A fine wine from Basel Cellars Winery in Walla Walla Washington

My nostrils were filled with the scent of oak and fermenting wine as I walked through the cellar doors into the Basel Cellars Winery. It is a scent that I have been privileged to experience many times while photographing several wine cellars in the Walla Walla Valley.

I just love that smell and it really puts me in the creative mode for capturing some great photographs.

Today’s assignment was to get another 360 degree panoramic scene added to the Basel Cellars Winery and Resort virtual tour.

I have been working on getting the tour window live and attached to the Basel Cellars website and so I am happy to get this cellar shot for the tour!

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I will have the new cellar scene all stitched together and updated within a couple of days.
Then, it will be attached to the website soon after. I can’t wait because then I can start pushing the tour to several portals giving some great exposure to Basel Cellars Winery.

As I photographed Justin Basel and Ryan Sams in their winemaker rolls there in the cellar,

Justin and Ryan work on a new vintage at Basel Cellars Winery

I realized that they really are a couple of crazy dudes that are popping out some excellent wines. I think that their youth and vibrancy will bring Basel Cellars a long way into the 21st century.

Justin Basel filling an oak wine barrel

Ryan Sams keeps an eye on the wine

Justin and Ryan are two winemakers that love their work and are not afraid to experiment in the winemaking dept.

It is going to be interesting to see what this new generation brings out of that cellar in the next 5-10 years. They have the expertise and a state of the art wine facility so be prepared to be dazzled!

While they take their rolls as winemakers for Basel Cellars Winery seriously as is evident by their present stock of premium Cabs, Syrahs and Chardonnays, I can see how working 12-15 hours in a cellar could get to a guys nerves.

Sometime, somehow the fermentation chamber has to blow! You just gotta let loose and have some fun. They’re making wine for crying out loud! It’s a liquid that people pay a lot of money for so they can celebrate something, if not just the close of a hectic day. So why do all the wine maker photos you see have to show some very serious guy standing there amongst a bunch of dusty, oak casks in a dark cave?

I think these photos are a change of pace…

Justin and Ryan guarding their stash-winecrafters at Basel Cellars

Of course, this picture was just for fun and I hope the guys had a fun day during the photos and after I left. I believe that wine or beer or even sour kraut and anything else that has a fermentation process to it, is alive and as a living, breathing entity, can “feel” the mood of it’s environment. Kind of like talking to your plants and watching them be happy.

If your wine is having a great time growing up, then I believe that has an effect on the outcome of the finished product.

Justin Basel-winecrafter

Dean Harman
www.harmanportraits.com
dean@harmanportraits.com
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Property Marketing New to Harman Portraits

We have added a whole new dimension to  our photographic services as of the first of this year (2009).  After 25 plus years of photographing people and an occasional commercial job I wanted to add some new services to my camera bag.

Last summer, I found a great partner in a company called Real Tour Vision located in the great state of Michigan.  They are marketing properties for real estate agents in the Traverse City area and are using their own software to create 360° panoramic virtual tours!  I was lucky enough to be able to sign on with their company as a full fledged RTV dealer.

What this means for the Walla Walla real estate industry is that not only can I create some really awsome virtual tours for them, they can benefit from using a professional photographer to capture the homes they are representing.  No longer will a real estate agent have to use their cell phone camera to add pictures to their listings!

Of course, virtual tours are not new to the real estate marketplace.  However, what sets Harman Portraits apart from the rest of the tour providers is that we actually market the tours.  This goes way beyond just attaching a tour window to a realtor’s website.  We not only add the link to their website but we also are able to “push” the tour to several real estate portals including Googlebase.com, Yahoo.com, HomeSeekers.com, Realtor.com .

Recently, we have added  to our linking strategy.  Click these links:  Craigslist.org  and Backpage.com to see how we are using our e-flyers to advertise the properties even further! 

Here is a link to one of our FSBO tours in Walla Walla: http://rtvpix.com/RE-5338-X1DZ9P-01 

We will be using our YouTube.com channel to create video style slide shows and then embed the shows into our blogs, web articles and any other place we need  to send them.

With these tools at our disposal, we are also able to bring the technology to other businesses that want to show their facilities to the world.  Bed and Breakfasts, wineries, college campuses, the list goes on and on.

The internet is just in it’s infancy and we are only using a small part of what the potential is.  Marketing has taken a new direction in 2009 and I for one am excited about the coming years.  What new and innovative ways can a person or company use to market their business?  It boggles the mind!

Dean