When Advanced Online Insights creates virtual tours for our customers, it’s part of our service to link each virtual tour with the company’s Google Maps listing. There are so many advantages to doing this, including more search engine power and increasing engagement with online visitors. The best thing about Google Maps is that it’s free to use and free to list your business on.
Even with all of this powerful information, there are limitations to the customization offered within Google Maps for cities or organizations. For this reason and so many more, Advanced Online Insights has developed a solution for cities, chambers of commerce, regional development offices, and other organizations: the interactive Smart Map.
Who is a Smart Map For?
Our Smart Maps are specifically designed to showcase the businesses and organizations with virtual tours and photos in close geographic proximity. The Smart Map easily displays just those businesses that are intended to be featured, making it very simple for a user to navigate from location to location.
This is ideal for organizations like chambers of commerce and cities that want to promote members or specific types of businesses.
View the Terre Haute Smart Map here.
Advanced Online Insights created a beautiful Smart Map for Terre Haute, Indiana. Over the course of a year, we worked with the local economic development center, chamber of commerce, and regional government to create more than 60 virtual tours for local businesses. At the time, there was no easy way to see all of the businesses who participated in our virtual tour program–and no easy way for the local economic development center to conveniently showcase the participating businesses in a single map.
To solve this, Advanced Online Insights created an interactive map of Terre Haute and the surrounding area. Our goal was to build something that encompasses the work that was done in an easy to use interactive experience. The end result was our user-friendly Smart Map.
Advantages of Using a Smart Map for Cities, Chambers, and Regional Organizations:
- A Smart Map contains only the information or businesses that you want to include: making it ideal for membership-based organizations or selective listings.
- Each included business gets a custom listing within the Smart Map that links to their updated business information and virtual tour
- Smart Maps can be integrated into websites, landing pages, and social media
- Smart Maps can reflect as many, or as few, businesses as you desire.
- There are many commercial applications available. For example, hotels could create a Smart Map to offer visitors easy online navigation to local attractions and partnering restaurants. Or, cities and private companies could list stops on various tours and walking paths.
If you are involved in an organization, government entity, or corporation that would benefit from an Advanced Online Insights Smart Map, contact us to learn more about how we can serve you. Let’s get your businesses on the map today!