hey guys Zach cahon here co-founder of cloud.com in this video we're going to talk about how to start a virtual tour business in 2025 how do you get started from scratch even with zero experience how do you get your first client how do you actually create a virtual tour brand it to your brand number three how do you grow off of this service offering whether you have an existing agency that is really busy and wan to increase revenue or if you are a brand new startup trying to get your business off the ground what should you do so let's get started and I'm going to give you the step by step what to do when to do it and what the most important thing is which order to do it in okay let's get into it so step one how do you get started from scratch even if you have zero experience in the virtual tour space I have great news for you virtual tours are really only in mostly two categories one is in a hosted virtual tour that means you go to cloud.com you create a 360 virtual tour 3D Tour on the platform and you deliver it to a client for a fee you can do this for an upfront fee you can do this for a recurring fee which a lot of our customers do and our our users do or you can have a combination of both based on your customer you can even embed and use drone videos drone photos that start in the sky and move you forward into a space you can use all types different Medias inside of the virtual inside of the virtual tour as well delivering a virtual tour to a client is relatively simple you capture the media in 360 3D you create the virtu tour on cloud piano and you send it over make sure you get paid in the process right easy concept but how do you get started from scratch the best news is that you can do this without any experience or portfolio all you have to do is go to Cloud payment.com log in make a free account and use some of our free demos that are examples go to your clients and say hey here's what a virtual tour looks like here's what a 3603 tour will look like you don't want to claim the virtual tours that are there as your own but just share hey this is what the experience is and really anyone could do that any client could Google what's the virtual tour how does it look or what's an example and they'll see lots of examples on the internet 360 interactive really cool features custom themes Etc this is what you do you share examples and you get some free ones on cloud payment.com so stop right now pause the video and go do that that's number one go pre-sell so if you can go pre-sell and Show an example you're going to be in a much better place especially if you can show a niche example that is the same customer Avatar or the same Niche that you're selling into so if you sell to Apartments show an apartment example if you sell to houses show to house sellers or house renters or airbnbs show an Airbnb that makes it easier for the customer to visualize what you're going to create for them and it makes the sale almost effortless so that's number one goild pre-sale that's number thing so what's cool about this is you can do it for free you can go out and like you know get a small subscription on cloud Pano and go start pre-selling it go pitch It Go email out to some people go show some friends show some clients tap into the people you already know and say hey I can create some of these for you or I can do this kind of experience for you or I can have my employee do it for you my agency does this let me know your next project and I love to help you out okay that's number one you can go pre-sale the number two category I mentioned a moment ago of an hoso tour is a good Google Street View virtual tour so what this means is you can create 360 photos capture them connect them on cloud Pano and publish them directly to the Google Street View platform this is super helpful for anyone who has a small business you're trying to show off your space in full 360 show a virtual tour and then of course it connects to to their Google Maps account so this helps their local SEO anything that keeps the customer or the viewer on Google Maps for a long time is going to help boost that listing it's all about engagement time super super important to Google therefore it's important to the customers therefore it's important to you the agency owner that creates these so those are your two basic options there's a lot more options you can do you can do video you can make floor PL you do $3 houses all kindes of cool stuff on cloud piano but for now let's just keep it really simple hosted virtual tour or a Google Street View virtual tour easy to do and even pretty easy to go sell that's number one go pre-sale number two how do you build these things how do you build a virtual tour that you can sell for $5,000 $112,000 68 $75,000 the answer is simple you just need to capture high quality images and make sure you have a really worldclass Editor to edit those photos for you and you assemble and create the virtual tours on cloudpano then on cloudpano with a simple Pro Plus subscription you can white label your own URL on the URL or on the video or on the virtual tour excuse me or video and send to customers with your brand on it in this scenario this means your brand shines through your business grows and you get all the credit and every time they want to come back they think oh yeah what was that awesome virtual tour we had or that my friend sent over to me oh let's reach out to this company because they obviously do a really good job so that's the power of white labeling and that is is how you get started so if you want to become a great photo editor you could do that but your the time is of the essence when you have a lowcost overseas editors whether it's in Vietnam or or India or the Philippines Etc that are really high quality they do a really good job you can send them 30 40 photos and wake up the next day so s s at night time they work on it all night wake up the next day and on the job's done you pay the bill everyone's happy you can you get high quality images a great output and then you just assemble assemble that virtual tour together in a custom special way and you send it over everyone is super happy with the quality and you get all the credit it's a great scenario so that's how you do that so whether you use a 6D camera whether you use a DSLR use an editor super important editors can help you of course you use cloud panel and then number three how do you grow the business so that you achieve exponential scale well here is my opinion about scale when it comes to anything the more you focus on building custom packages around the problem of the niche whatever their problem is if you build a custom package around their problem you're going to resonate with your language and be able to repeatedly sell it that means your salese your admin they know what the value proposition is it's repeatable it's predictable and you want to build a bundle of services around what they need so rather than thinking about what I could hey asking people randomly what should I charge for this what should I sell for this just be open with your first few clients and say hey what have you guys paid in the past for this kind of service and what do you thinking this will probably Char you know now that you've seen the example that I'm showing you what do you think this will probably you know cost in time and effort and materials and kind of get it out there there's no materials in in this virtual tour space but it's a common terminology for just what's required to do a service right people expect services that cost money the more complex it looks and the more square footage the large the facility the more you can charge for it if the answer back comes to you is I have no idea what this is going to cost then you probably could throw out some higher numbers and work your way down if needed or reduce the scope if needed so less Panos less photos per tour or you can combine bundles video drum pH extra features Etc that may require more work but you can charge more for them because you're providing more value so that's how you grow it that's how you bundle things inside of a niche and talk their language and when you do that you can leverage that success story to the rest of the niche in your area or to the rest of people in your area that's just what you do that is the formula the formula is pre-sale get started get your first customer use that same Niche and Avatar to sell to all the rest of them in your area and you go Statewide and you go National and you go big okay so that's how you need to think keep it simple at first but cast a vision for what's to come and then do it over and over and over again repeatedly and that's how you go in so follow this formula you're going have a ton of success it's not complicated but you may sure get stripped up in the in the way or in your journey if you do make sure to join our community become a pro plus member on cloud Pano and watch the free webinar at virtual Tor profit.com I wish the best success in your business and of course become a cloud pan subscriber today come check out all of our awesome tools we're building to help you have success in your journey talk soon