Real Estate Apprentice® & Visualtour Showcase Sponsorship Deal

ALISO VIEJO, CA, Jan 4, 2006 – VisualTour.com, a leading virtual tour marketing system, and the Real Estate Apprentice Grant Foundation, announced today their agreement designed to help Rookie Agents learn how to overcome barriers and achieve rapid success in their new careers. Dr. Martin Oliver, the Deputy Executive Director of The Foundation said: “The VisualTour Company and product could make the difference between closing a deal and watching it slide away. VisualTour’s in-kind products and services Sponsorship contribution consists of twenty VisualTour Starter Kits plus twelve months of unlimited-use subscription for each of the 20 Real Estate Apprentice Grant Finalists for Season IV and V. 

How Rookies Gain More Listings

The VisualTour Marketing System is designed to enable real estate agents to gain more listings and earn more referrals. VisualTour also helps agents gain maximum exposure for their listings while providing an immediate competitive advantage. VisualTour is known to empower agents to get maximum results from their Internet marketing strategy. According to J.L. Winn, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for VisualTour: “As a sponsor of The Real Estate Apprentice Grant, VisualTour is ideally suited for new entrants who need a cost effective marketing tool to gain an immediate advantage over more experienced agents in their market.”

Exceeding The Ordinary

As 74% of consumers start searching for a home on the Internet, VisualTour currently provides a strong competitive advantage their 50,000 subscribers. According to Winn “an ordinary virtual tour is used by a seller's agent to show a listing that they have already obtained. This type of virtual tour is normally considered a listing expense. On the other hand, the VisualTour Marketing System is an income generating marketing system for today's seller and buyer agents,” Winn added. In addition to creating stunning, feature-rich Internet, CD and diskette based virtual tours for listings that agents already have, the VisualTour Marketing System can be also used in listing presentations to create stunning neighborhood tours for out-of-town buyers to show what's currently available in their area. VisualTour’s System can also be effective for open houses, for CMA presentations, for marketing to FSBOs, and has many other uses. 

The VisualTour Marketing System was developed by TRF Systems, Inc. of Coral Springs, Florida and is recommended by the Council of Residential Specialists (CRS), Howard Brinton STAR POWER Systems, Allen F. Hainge CyberStars and a PicturePath Provider with REALTOR.com.  VisualTour is now also a proud sponsor of The Real Estate Apprentice Foundation.

Their involvement coincides with the launch of the fourth six-month Grant season that started this week. During each six month season thousands of new licensees apply for Real Estate Apprentice Grants. There are no hidden costs or fees to applicants or awardees and no grant requires repayment. The Foundation is widely recognized as the only Public Benefit Corporation of its kind in the real estate industry that provides real estate education, products and services free of charge to newly licensed real estate agents with the goal of improving the quality of the industry overall.