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Online Internet Virtual Videos Show Castle Wedding to Potential Couples
Posted by Kolleen | Filed under Computers
A company that allows soon-to-be newlyweds to have their wedding performed in a Castle wedding setting could increase their customer database while increasing their revenue by using the latest technology in virtual videos. Virtual videos allow potential customers who visit a Castle website to take a tour of the Castle without ever leaving their seat.
Virtual videos have been used by many hotels and other destinations such as tropical beaches and museums to allow potential visitors to sample a taste of what they are going to see once they arrive at their destination. This gives the potential customer not only a sample of what they might see but also helps them make a decision on whether to visit this place or not.
Many soon-to-be wed couples are opting for destination weddings because they are fun and exciting and the couple is tired of trying to please both sides of the family who each want them to have their wedding in each family’s church. With a destination wedding in a place like a castle or the Michigan weddings gardens, there is no need to offend either side of the families because this would be considered “neutral ground” and a peaceful place for the couple to relax and concentrate on what is important and that is getting married.
Hundreds of couples who are thinking about getting married in a destination wedding setting turn to the Internet to find a unique location for their nuptials to take place. The first thing a couple does is turn to one of the three major search engines – Yahoo!, Google or MSN and they type in the keywords ‘destination wedding’ and the three major search engines send out their “feelers” and bring back a listing of all destination weddings for the happy couple to choose from. If the happy couple knows what type of wedding they would like to have such as the Castle wedding, they could narrow their search by placing the keyword castle in the search box on the search engine and then take a virtual castle tours of one of the many centuries old castles around the country that offer unique wedding destinations.
The Internet provides much more information than all other media combined. The phonebook only offers a name and telephone number in which the couple needs to call for more information; newspaper and magazine advertisements offer slightly more information and usually direct the couple to a website and television advertising is typically reserved for big-budget productions that are cost prohibitive for small businesses. The Internet could provide articles about the destination wedding, photographs and virtual videos of other weddings and give ideas on everything from flowers to the choice of wine to serve.
Northern Michigan Weddings Offer Castle Tours, Increase Customer Database, Revenue
Posted by Leah | Filed under technology
A century’s old castle that holds Northern Michigan weddings would also offer castle tours to church groups, school children and the general public. There is something unique and exciting yet oddly strange about an old Northern Michigan Castle and people seem to be drawn to it so the owners have opened it up for weddings, castle tours, birthday parties, anniversary parties or retirement parties or business meetings and retreats.
Besides old records, written and kept by the castle’s occupants, scientists could perform carbon dating and other testing on the stone covered walls to determine the age of the castle that is now open to the public in order to celebrate different happy occasions. Technology has come a long way and now a castle has indoor plumbing and all the modern conveniences one would miss if they lived 100 years or more ago.
One of the best technological advances people of olden times did not have was the computer and the ability to watch a video of a place they’ve never been to. Such virtual videos are very helpful to a wedding destination company such as one that owns a castle so that the potential customers, in this case the bride and groom, can see for themselves what their wedding might look like without having to make the trip to Northern Michigan. Everything could be done through the computer and a telephone.
Every company, no matter what their business entails, should have an Internet presence in the form of a website or an online store in order to reach more targeted customers which our customers looking for exactly what they want through the Internet. Today more and more consumers are turning to the Internet to search for what they want and need over all other media combined. This includes their local telephone book, newspapers and magazines and radio and television advertisements. Telephone books only offer a telephone number in which a customer would have to call for more information and newspapers and magazines only offer slightly more with perhaps a map to the location and hours of operation. Unless it’s a big-budget production, people don’t listen to radio or watch television advertisements.
Another way to attract more customers to a website is to offer something for free. One idea would be to offer free music downloads every time someone views the virtual video tour of the castle and in this way, the castle websites would receive more visitors and ultimately more visitors to the real world location.
Having an Internet presence as well as a real-world brick-and-mortar location will help increase a castle destination wedding website’s customer database and ultimately their real world locations revenue.