Retail
Open up your retail business to the whole wide world
Our 360˚ panoramas and virtual tours can promote your brand, and captivate and motivate visitors while on your website.
For a relatively small investment our virtual tours and panoramas offer real benefits to retail outlets :-
- You could see a return on your investment within a week by enticing more people into your store/s using our bespoke designed, leading-edge, memorable, and compelling on-line interactive retail experience.
- High resolution interactive panoramas give customers confidence in your retail business, inspiring and encouraging them to visit and buy your produce or use your services, or purchase items on-line.
- Using interactive images demonstrates to consumers a superior level of customer service, and shows your engagement with cutting-edge technology and contemporary design.
- You could be selling your goods on-line 24 x 7 x 365 - or at the very least whetting customers' appetites.
- If you have a fabulous shop people will want to come and visit it - if they know about it. Word of mouth and still images can only go so far...
Customised to promote your brand
We can create bespoke virtual tours for retail businesses to promote their products and services to the consumer.
- Our virtual tour customisations such as framing, buttons, hotspots, fonts, inclusion of logos etc, means our interactive images can be seamlessly aligned to your brand identity and ethos.
- Our advanced virtual tours can integrate plans, maps and hotspots to help navigation in larger retail premises.
- A soundtrack can accompany the interactive images to enhance the ambiance and reflect the in-store shopping experience.
Integrate new forms of eCommerce functionality
Working with our parent company - 3‑8‑tivity - we can combine virtual tours with eCommerce. This can greatly increase on-line profitability by presenting a leading-edge, memorable, and compelling interactive retail experience.
- Our unique content management system can provide eCommerce functionality within virtual tours and product-shaped individual hotspots to create a cutting edge dynamic retail experience. For example, online customers could virtually walk around your shop and click on objects to reveal more information and purchase items. Please see ivGallery® for more details.
- We can also create 360˚ object rotations of individual products which allow users to spin objects around and zoom in and out for closer in-the-hand-like inspection. These are particularly useful for high value and intricate 3D objects such as clocks, china, antiques, sculpture, etc.
- Your on-line store has the same design and ambience of your retail outlet - which you will have put so much investment, thought, and effort into - because it is a virtualised interactive photographic reproduction of your retail outlet.
Most virtual tour photography companies are a single photographer with some web experience. What separates 3‑8‑tive 360˚ from all other virtual reality photography and design companies is that we are part of a much bigger innovative and creative computer company that specialises in web hosting, web design and development, digital asset management systems (DAMS), and content management systems (CMS). This extremely powerful combination offers you unrivaled creative and technical opportunities to keep you ahead of the competition, use highly innovative customer-engaging technology, and protects your original investment.
3‑8‑tivity has huge web computing resources - using the most advanced cloud technologies, and unrivaled experience in digital imaging and multi-media, and their eCommerce integration.
What this means for you is that with 3‑8‑tive 360˚ you are buying into maximum flexibility and capability, and your investment is future-proof. Whatever your current or future requirements are, we are confident that no other company is better placed technically, photographically, or creatively to meet your needs.
You may start with a simple virtual tour, however, later you may want to progress to something more advanced like eCommerce, reporting, and/or dynamic content. The key advantage of using 3‑8‑tive 360˚ is that if you later decide to add advanced functionality it is very likely that you will be able to use the original virtual tour photography - i.e. it is unlikely that you will have to have the virtual tour re-shot. This is because most of the additional functionality is handled at the back-end - on the web server and in on-line databases - with small user-interface changes that can be over-laid on top of your existing virtual tour. Obviously this saves you money and protects your original investment. You can have the confidence that we will be able to meet any of your future requirements.
There are opportunities that you may not have considered, and we can explore these with you to keep you ahead of the competition and to keep your customers engaged and loyal.
Put another way, if you never want to used advanced features like :-
- integrate eCommerce functionality - like on-line bookings, sales, multi-media information
- integrate with your existing computer systems - e.g. booking or sales systems
- instantly change dynamic content in the virtual tour/s yourself - like changing menus, prices, times
- report on visits, clicks with detailed analysis
- create permanent on-line digital archives of exhibitions, shows, seasons, development progress, etc.
... and if you do not need any of the following :-
- technical assistance with integrating your virtual tour into any web site, blog, or content management system (CMS)
- re-evaluate your whole web strategy to maximise interactive virtual tour content and opportunities
- assistance with search engine optimisation (SEO)
... if you do not need any of the above then there is no particular reason why you should choose 3‑8‑tive 360˚ . There are several perfectly good virtual reality photographers in your area and some produce photographic results as good as us, offer a service as good as we do, and turn around your work as quickly as we do...
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