Why is Google My Business essential for all business owners? The answer is that the internet has completely transformed the way customers find what they are looking for. They search, they visit, they buy. Google My Business helps those customers find you! It is the primary way of adding your business to the official Google […]
Also posted in Google My Business, Info Blog Tagged Google Maps, Google Places, Google Search, Online MarketingYou may recall in Striking Places Summer Part One we were four hours from Calais in a beautiful campsite in the middle of a forest when we got the call. Did Striking Places Jo Hailey wanted to be interviewed for the BBC London News outside Westminster Abbey the following afternoon? Yes!! You left us stuck in […]
Also posted in BBC News, Blog, TourDash, Westminster Abbey Tagged Alice Bhandakravi, BBC London News, BBC Regional news, Deans Yard, France, Google Street View Trusted, Grazyna Richmond, Historic Building, Jo Hailey, Virtual Tour, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Abbey Head of Education, YouTubeWe can hardly believe it but it’s Striking Places FIRST Birthday already. It is also National Honey Bee Day! We’re really chuffed to share it with bees! Bees are one of our favourite things; apart from wine, cheese and chocolate! So we’re popping open the champagne to celebrate our one-year anniversary. Not our first […]
Also posted in Event, Street View Trusted, Striking Places Photography, Virtual Tour Tagged Event, Google Street View Summit, Google Street View Trusted, Google Trusted Photographer, Hatfield House, HTA, HTA National Plant Show, HTA Partnership, My Mustard, Striking Places Birthday, Striking Places News Post, Striking Places Photography, Striking Places Rebrand, TourDash, Westminster AbbeyStriking Places have had a pretty darned amazing summer. After the whirlwind of the HTA National Plant Show we got back to our St Albans HQ late in the evening of June 22nd. Not for long though! We were leaving the following day – after a morning networking at the Watford Expo – for France. What busy bees […]
Also posted in Holiday Accommodation, Striking Places Photography, Virtual Tour Tagged 360 Virtual tour, 3D Virtual Tour, BBC London News, Chateau de la Place, Dordogne, Font Remy, France, Mas de la Quintine, Mortagne-sur-Gironde, Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde, Street View Trusted, Westminster AbbeyHTA National Plant Show 2016 Lives Forever as a Virtual Tour If you’ve been following our news posts you’ll know that Striking Places have had a busy year with the Horticultural Trades Association. It began with attending the HTA Technology Conference in February 2016. The HTA asked Jo Hailey, our MD, to speak to the conference delegates […]
Also posted in Blog, Event, HTA, Partner, Virtual Tour Tagged 360 Virtual tour, Allensmore Nurseries, Aylett Nurseries, Bransford Webbs Plant Company, Event, Google Cardboard, Google Street View Trusted, Google Trusted Photographer, Happy Plants, Hortipack Hub, HTA National Plant Show, HTA National Plant SHow 2016, HTA Partnership, HTA Village, National Plant Show 2016, Stoneleigh Park, Street View Trusted, Swarkestone Nurseries, Syngenta, The Retail Concept Experience, Virtual Tour, Willow for WellbeingTake a Virtual Tour inside Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, once described as the Parish Church of the world, is a spectacular building with over 1,000 years of history. When Striking Places’ Jo Hailey got a request for more information about Google Street View Trusted Tours from Westminster Abbey you can imagine her excitement. The site […]
Also posted in Street View Trusted, TourDash, Virtual Tour, Westminster Abbey Tagged 3D Virtual Tour, Coronation Chair, Coronation High Altar, Cosmati Pavement, Edward the Confessor, Google Trusted Photographer, Grave of the unknown warrior, Hatfield House, Interactive overlay, Interactive Virtual Tour, Queen Elizabeth, Royal Weddings, St Etheldreda's, Street View inside, Street View Trusted, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries, Virtual 360, Virtual Tour, Westminster Abbey, William the ConquererIs What is a Google Street View Trusted Virtual Tour? You’ve heard of Google Street View, but what is a Google Street View Trusted virtual tour? Street View inside your business (only better)! The Virtual Tour program created by Google A collection of 360-degree interactive panoramas of your business premises joined together to create a […]
Also posted in Info Blog, Street View Trusted, Virtual Tour Tagged Google Business Photos, Google Business View, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Street View Trusted, Google Trusted Photographer, Google Virtual Tour Program, Specialist Photographic equipment, Virtual TourIn March 2015 Chris Allen, owner of Tring Martial Arts Academy, was updating the business details on his Google My Business page when he noticed a button inviting him to add a virtual tour. Intrigued Chris clicked the button. Within 48 hours Jo from Striking Places rang to find out if Chris would like to […]
Also posted in Event, Google Cardboard, Photography Tagged Educational Funding Company, Event, Event Photography, Google Cardboard, Google My Business, Martial Arts Summit, Woodland Grange Conference and Training CentreStriking Places are very excited to announce our partnership with HTA (Horticultural Trade Association). The partnership came together for the first HTA Technology Conference in February. Jo Hailey, Director of Striking Places, addressed the conference on ‘The Future of Things to Come’. The presentation included a brief outline of the Google Street View Trusted programme. […]
Also posted in HTA, Partner, Street View Trusted Tagged Google Cardboard, Google My Business, Google Street View Trusted, HTA Cost Reduction Scheme, HTA National Plant SHow 2016, HTA Partnership, Partnership, Striking Places AnnouncementStriking Places Sponsor MK Dons Striker Alex Revell Striking Places first came across MK Dons in January 2016. Jo Hailey encountered Tim Lee, the Corporate Sales Executive there, after an introduction from Leigh Frost. Leigh runs her own marketing and web design company, Truesilver, and had just set up the networking group Business Buzz Milton […]
Also posted in Event, Partner Tagged Alex Revell, Football, Milton Keynes, MK Dons, MK Dons Stadium, Sponsoring a Footballer, Striking Places, The Crazy Gang, The Dons, Wimbledon FCStriking Places Present at the HTA Technology Conference 2016 Striking Places involvement with the HTA (Horticultural Trades Association) began whilst working with Aylett Nurseries. We had lots of fun meeting Adam Wigglesworth, Julie Aylett’s husband, whilst shooting a 360 virtual tour there. Among other things he boosted me up in a forklift truck cage! This was so […]
Also posted in Event, Google Cardboard, HTA, Partner Tagged Aylett Nurseries, HTA National Plant Show, HTA Partners, HTA Partnership, HTA Technology Conference, Interactive Virtual Tour, Jo Hailey, Solihull, Sunrise, Sunset, Virtual 360Follow our simple step-by-step guide for turning your phone into a virtual reality headset using Google Cardboard. Google Cardboard is the clever new bit of kit everyone’s talking about. It’s a beautifully simple flatpack headset for VR (Virtual Reality) or AR (Augmented Reality) that you construct yourself. Download these apps How to use Google Cardboard […]
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