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January 2007 |
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1. What Do We Do? |
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2. AreaSelector For Real Estate |
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The AreaSelector product line allows you to integrate
large areas into one interactive map. These areas can be as large as the whole US, or
even the world. At a first glance, most people may think 'this isn't a real-estate map!'
Yet we keep finding more and more potential users of our AreaSelector product within
this industry; namely: |
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Brokers wishing to display their associated agents on a county map. |
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- | Multi-state or wide-area, real-estate firms wishing to let visitors select a state or region. |
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- | Agents wishing to map listings whose MLS does not allow publication of the exact addresses. |
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Of course, our most requested product for the real estate industry
is the DB Mapper, which
lets you plot your listings on great-looking, interactive, street-level maps. Nonetheless,
the AreaSelector can make an excellent companion or, in many cases, the perfect solution
for your mapping needs.
Take a look at our solutions for the real-estate industry at
www.flashmaps.com/re, or
call us toll free at 1-866-392-0071 should you want any more information on this
topic. |
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3. The Perfect Event Maps |
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If you organize any type of event, you are more than likely to
be already using the web to give your attendees all the info they need: schedule,
sessions, lecture information, pricing and so on. But, don't you just love it when
a friend recommends you a good local website with all the hot spots in the area?
Go a step further, keep your attendees on your website. Tell them where they can find
the best steak in town, listen to good music, or suggest whatever
you feel can make their trip more pleasant. This way they come away with the
best experience possible, and look forward to being part of the next event you
organize.
Flashmaps Event Maps make a phenomenal solution for any event by letting your web visitors know
about all of the best attractions located around your venues, all of them illustrated on
one of our attractive-looking interactive maps. |
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This is possibly the easiest and fastest way
to familiarize your attendees with the area. It is for this reason that
Flashforward, the world's premier Flash event, has put their trust in our maps,
and has been using them for their events since 2004. |
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4. Chat With Us |
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One of our main goals is to keep providing you with the best support
in the entire mapping industry. We believe this is one of our distinctive advantages, and
we strive to make it stronger everyday. That's why we have just opened a new channel for
our customers to get in touch with us: our live online chat. |
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Needless to say, you can still call us toll free at 1-866-392-0071
or email us here. But, in
case you just want to send us a quick question and receive an instant answer, this new live
chat may be your best choice.
You can access this new service from any page in www.flashmaps.com, by clicking on the ad-hoc button in the
upper-right corner. |
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5. Tips & Hints: Get The Most From Our Products |
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Using AreaSelector Maps Inside Your PowerPoint Presentations |
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Few things in a presentation are as attention-grabbing as a professional,
interactive map like, for example, our AreaSelector. Each time one of our customers uses our
maps during a presentation the immediate response is always the same: |
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"It went really well! Afterwards people kept congratulating
me, and asking me where I got the map. I never thought that adding something as simple
as a map would have such an impact on my presentation!" |
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Embedding a county, state, country or world map into your presentation
is very easy, it's just like embedding any other Flash movie clip into your presentation.
Call us toll free at 1-866-392-0071 or email us at
support@flashmaps.com should you need any assistance or have any doubts regarding
this matter.
Wait no more; begin using our maps within your presentations today! |
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Add Video To Your Maps |
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Did you know that you can give additional life to
your projects by integrating videos into your points of interest?
The technology behind our maps, Adobe Flash, makes it possible to incorporate an
endless amount of options with your maps. For example, in the real-estate industry,
you can setup a pop-up
to display a tour of the inside of an apartment, view the sights from the balcony;
take a look at the neighborhood! |
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But the real-estate industry is not the only sector that can benefit
from this exciting feature: |
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A hotel reservation system may include live video
chat with the reception desk. |
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clips of each of the city attractions. |
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- | A ski resort can display webcams
showing current weather and snow conditions. |
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- | A traffic website may show
webcams indicating how heavy or light the current traffic conditions are at
strategic road points. |
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Your imagination is the only limit; whatever you can do in Flash
can be instantly integrated without any restrictions. |
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Put A Map In Your Signature |
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"My customers were amazed when I first emailed them
with a map included in my signature" claimed one of our clients a few
weeks ago. |
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Letting your email recipients know where to reach you in real life is a
snap. Just add a "Map & Directions" link to your signature, pointing to the
relevant page on your website, the one that displays your location map.
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Name Surname |
Job Title |
Adobe Systems Incorporated |
601 Townsend Street |
San Francisco, CA 94103 |
| Map & Directions |
Phone: 415.832.2000 |
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6. Case Study: Tahoe360.com, The Ultimate Guide To Lake Tahoe |
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Tahoe360.com is the leading online guide to Lake Tahoe
and its surrounding area. Visitors can find extensive and updated information about this
unique area.
When we first came in contact with the Tahoe360.com team, we immediately became quite
excited about their project. From day one they had a lot of cool features in mind,
all of which have been easily implemented by integrating Flashmaps DB Mapper with their
valuable databases of information and their extensive multimedia library. |
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"Working with the crew at Flashmaps has been an
amazing experience. They have gone above and beyond anything we could have expected
to help us create exactly what we were hoping for. Flashmaps has truly helped us
take our vision and make it a reality with tons of great input along the way"
says Jason Toutolmin, Tahoe360.com's President, and CEO. |
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Tahoe360.com uses Flashmaps DB Mapper to show the location
of 360 tours, WiFi hot spots, live web cams, ski resorts, golf courses, natural
wonders and many other useful points of interest within this area. Their project
includes some of the most powerful DB Mapper features, primarily our unique 'custom
layers' system. |
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This great feature allows Tahoe360.com to build custom
translucent Flash movieclips and overlay them on top of the actual maps.
As many other projects, Tahoe360.com required our team's close co-operation with the
customer on almost every aspect of their project. It's always a pleasure and a challenge
to work hand in hand with another team to turn their vision into reality while maximizing
our products. |
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Jason also added: "The coolest thing about working
with Flashmaps is that we know that pretty much anything we can imagine, we can
actually do, because of the flexibility of the whole system. And the programmers
at Flashmaps help us achieve these ideas, no matter how complex they may be." |
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We love seeing all of the incredible websites being built with
our products; and Tahoe360.com is another great example. Congratulations are in order to
everyone at Tahoe.360.com for such an amazing job!
Visit their website at www.tahoe360.com,
and if you have a chance, take a few days to experience some of the best snow in the country! |
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