I've been spending my free time working on just what I'll be putting forth to the Ashtabula County realtors and home sellers... I've been putting a lot of time into my websites:

http://www.scenesfromabove.com

and

http://www.ashtabulamarket.com.

I decided to eliminate my third website (heresyourtour.com), as I saw that it was being somewhat redundant, and the services offered could be presented in the other two sites.  I certainly don't mean to imply that the virtual tours won't play a big part in what I do, but it won't be a major contributor at this point in time.  I'm "keeping it in the holster" for when it's necessary...

To bolster my attempts to convince the local real estate community that "professional photography" is the way to go, I've looked over several online flyer companies.... and I've decided to go with vFlyer.  You'll be seeing a lot of these in my site - right now, if you go to this page:

http://www.vflyer.com/home/flyer/home/1434458

you'll see an example of the premium flyer.  I also like the "standard" version, seen here:

http://scenesfromabove.vflyer.com/1/index.html

The differences are obvious; if you like the flash slide show, the former is yours.  If you want to see all of the textual data on the front page, then you'd pick the latter.  It's something that I guess I'll leave up to the Client.

I have decided that when a client wants a website, rather than just a page on the Ashtabula Market Site, that I will utilize the vFlyer AS the site.  It makes for a much neater presentation.  The real beauty of using this vFlyer is that it is automatically submitted to several online classified advertising sites.  I'm investigating ways to get it to post to even MORE sites.

I've been trying to put a version of Google Maps onto my site.  I had it all figured out, except when you click on the icon denoting the location on the map, it opens up a "balloon", and when you click on a link there, it goes either to the virtual flyer.... DIRECTLY to the virtual flyer.  Thing is, I want it to open in a new window, but it opens in the same window, navigating AWAY from my site.  Not what I want to happen.

Also, since my last post, I've changed the template in the Scenes From Above site... I like this one better.

I'd like to take a moment to thank the fine folks who frequent the websites

http://photographyforrealestate.net/

and

http://www.flickr.com/groups/photographyforrealestate/discuss/

Larry Lohrman is the moderator of the real estate blog, and Flickr holds the discussion group.  These folks are primarily professional photographers who specialize in what I want to do, and that is Photography for Real Estate.  I'm glad to have found this core of extremely competent individuals, as their advice, comments, and brilliance is something that anyone in my position would want to emulate.