For 20 years now Google has been changing the marketing landscaping for small businesses with one innovation after another, from pay per click advertising in the early days to their latest and most remarkable offer - Google Maps Business View 360 Degree Virtual Tours.
You’ve probably used Google Street View to look at your own home, maybe to check out unfamiliar areas if you’re thinking of moving house, or even to admire world-famous landmarks and views like the Coliseum or the Taj Mahul
Now with the help of ambientLight of Ipswich you can use the same 360 degree technology used by Google Street View to invite online customers right inside your business.
Whether you’re a shop, restaurant, hotel, visitor attraction, optician, health club… whatever business you have, if you’re proud of your premises you should showcase them in absolutely the best way possible to web visitors who are thinking of visiting. What better way to move them from “just looking” to “keen to visit”?
Starting from just £195, and with no ongoing fees or commitments, you can add an interactive, 360 degree tour of your premises to your Google Maps listing, allowing prospective visitors to “walk round” the interior of your business right on their desktop or tablet.
Example 360 Degree Tours by ambientLight
Aqua Eight restaurant, Ipswich
Maybe you have a shop which looks small from the outside but is much bigger than people think? Or you have a much wider range of products than people realise? Perhaps you’ve taken over and renovated an old business?
There can be no better way to engage people who are thinking of using your business than to open your doors to them right there on their computer!
Not only will your tour appear on Google search, Mobile search, Google Maps and Google+ Local, but you can easily embed Google Business View Virtual Tours on your own website, Facebook and more, with just a simple line of code! You can also link directly to your Virtual Tour in email or via social networks such as Twitter.
Features of a Google 360 Degree Tour
Put a 360° tour of your business on the most popular search engine in the world…
- Allow customers who find you via Google, Google Maps & Street View to enter and view the inside of your business
- A unique & engaging marketing experience that your customers will view, enjoy, share & interact with
- Google Maps Business View is available across all Google apps & devices - desktop, tablet and mobile
- Stand out from the crowd – your competitors are all on Google too but this gives you a real competitive edge
- Quick, straightforward & extremely affordable
- The tour is online 24/7 so your business can be open all day, every day to online visitors
Many businesses are fronted by flash websites which promise a lot, when in fact the reality is distinctly average. Having your premises laid out in a glorious interactive tour for customers to walk round, shows complete transparency and pride in your business.
How Do You Get a Google Tour
This is not something you can do yourself so – talk to an expert.
Contact local specialist Carl Lamb of ambientLight for free no-obligation quote for your Google Virtual Tour.
Briefly the process is:
- Make sure your business is listed in Google Places – ambientLight can help you with this too if you’re not sure
- Contact ambientLight to arrange a meeting to discuss the details of the photo shoot
- Have a tidy up before Carl comes to capture the imagery required to create you tour
- That’s it - Let ambientLight do the rest. The next thing you’ll know is when the tour is added to your Google Places page and made live; Carl will do all the technical work to make this happen
Carl will also supply you with the full resolution Point of Interest images from your photoshoot, which you will be able to use for further marketing should you require, and he’ll advise you how to embed the Virtual Tour directly into your own website using some simple HTML code.
Based in Ipswich, ambientLight covers all areas in Suffolk and further across East Anglia on request. ambientLight have already produces tours for businesses such as:
- Shops
- Hotels
- Holiday Homes
- Bed & Breakfasts
- Museums
- Tourist Attractions
- Salons
- Nurseries & Childcare • Pubs, Restaurants & Cafes
- Health Clubs & Gyms
- Shopping Centres
- Stadiums and Sports Complexes
- Landmarks
- Areas of Natural Beauty
- Heritage Sites
- Car & Motorcycle Showrooms
Pricing
Prices for Google Maps Business View Virtual tours are extremely cost effective, starting at just £195 for a small business.
All 360 Degree Tour packages include:
- 360 Degree Tour and static photos
- Setup of Google+ Local page
- Hosting on Google+ Local
- Enhanced Google Search results
- Integration into Google Street View
- Integration into Google Maps
- QR codes linking to your tour
Don’t forget there are NO ONGOING FEES - once your tour is live on Google it is there for good and there are no monthly or annual charges from Google or ambientLight. You can use the tour on your own website and Facebook business page at no extra cost.
Enhance your Virtual Tour with TourDash!
TourDash is a brand new and exciting Google Endorsed product that adds an extra dimension to your Google Tour. TourDash adds hotspots to the 360 degree tour which users can click on to bring up further information such as menus, price lists, images and even videos.
Explore our TourDash enabled tour of Crown Pools in Ipswich to see just a few of the ways these features can be used to enhance your tour.
Bespoke 360 Degree Tours
ambientLight also create bespoke 360 degree tours for businesses that require a custom made solution for their business. These can be produced at any size and be styled to integrate perfectly into your existing website.
Bespoke tours use a combination of Adobe Flash and HTML 5 to ensure almost all visitors to your website will be able to view the tour whether they are on laptops, desktops, tablets or smart phones.
