A simple Google search will reveal many apps that allow online floor planning, thus making the decision process a hard one. 

We would go for a floor planner that is user-friendly, easy to use and not require any special skills in order to create online floor plans. At PlanningWiz we believe that anybody can create online plans and visualize them in 3D without having any technical skills. You can design your own 3D floor plans and be your own interior designer.

The standard architectural plans of the building are not to be neglected. They are very important and one couldn’t create 3D floor plans without them. By having the blueprints and enriching them with the 3D preview one can form a complete image of the construction. With all details captured by the 3D, one can preview the construction before it is even started.

Those being said, one should refer to the benefits below as being the most important when it comes to 3D floor plans:

1. The accuracy of a 3D floor plan helps the customers form a better view of the building before construction even takes place;
2. If you are redecorating, a 3D rendering is the closest realistic view of the plan except for the construction itself;
3. A floor plan can be easily edited at anytime edited, thus saving a lot effort and money;
4. For real estate companies and property developers 3D floor plans can be a sales booster as it engages potential customers with interactive floor plans;
5. 3D floor plans allow users to organize the rooms and the furniture around, before actually buying it.
6. They help see exact details, like the placement of doors and windows or what colors and textures you should choose for walls;
7. It helps visualize the relationship between the rooms and get a real feel of the layout of the entire property.

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Once added to a website, the planner usually becomes its central feature, attracting, engaging and finally converting users into identified leads.

Besides generating customer engagement by allowing your website visitors to easily design & furnish their interiors, our clients consider that the planner pays for itself almost immediately in new sales, here how:

✓ Users register in order to save the designs. The Reporting Area tool offers access to the the contact information of the interested buyer and the furniture they’ve worked with; this is a powerful sales tool that provides a steady stream of highly qualified leads.

✓ You can advertise targeted promotions by employing all the customer usage information tracked by the planner.

✓ You will have visibility to all the room plans designed by your customers and the ability to find more about their consumer behavior.

✓ Users can print floor plans with your brand and contact information that will help to drive them into your store.

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Having a room planner on your website will boost your furniture sales. Convincing prospects to buy furniture from you can prove quite challenging in the highly competitive market of today. Not knowing upfront how the desired furniture fits in the allocated space is the reason of delayed purchase decision, returns or visits to the competition.

As few furniture items come with low price tags, buyers often look for ways to minimize their risks. This issue can be addressed by vendors with surprising ease and low investments. All it takes is to add an intuitive room planner to their websites and have their personnel use the planner on site to prepare accurate plans for would be customers with a few mouse clicks. Monetary gains are not the only positive outcomes of using such a solution. Customer perceptions of brands that make their lives easier with room planners also improve significantly.

Furniture manufacturers or vendors would enjoy at least these benefits from integrating a room planner with their web site:

Improved sales

By offering prospective customers the chance to preview their products in a room plan vendors empower them. A customer who sees upfront that a product fits in the planned space makes the purchase decision significantly faster than one who does not. This means prospects are less likely to visit the competitors’ web sites or store and to delay the actual purchase. All in all, the room planner can bring vendors important increases in sales.

Fewer returns

A room planning software helps customers find out if the furniture fits their space in terms of size, position, color and texture before they actually buy it. This information greatly reduces the risk of misfits and the likelihood of merchandise returns.

Differentiator for the manufacturer’s or vendor’s brand

A room planner allows manufacturers and vendors to add value to their offer in a simple and cost-effective way. This also helps outdo competitors who do not adopt such a solution. A room planner provides site visitors with valuable information about products in the comfort of their homes. By creating and printing the room plans with lists of furniture all branded with the company logo, site visitors will most likely remember you and become paying, long term customers.

Lead building

To save and access their floor plans prospects must register on the room planner. This information is saved for vendors, who can then act upon the contact details and the products prospects have shown interest in. Addressing the real needs of these highly qualified leads can make a significant difference on sales figures.

How to choose a room planner?

Some of the available solutions are affordable and have no strings attached. Other solutions are high end, offering fancy features at substantial rates.

There are solution providers that offer free custom trial version of their planners. Some of them even brand the demo versions with the client’s distinctive elements.

The market for online room and floor planners has been showing a boom lately. This trend is expected to continue for a long time. Online purchases of furniture have been on the rise in most if not all the developed countries. This means that the planners are here to stay. Their degree of sophistication is expected to grow with the tightening competition and prices to either reach a plateau or to diminish, to the benefit of us all.

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Turning prospects into repeat customers is a daunting task for fitness equipment manufacturers and resellers, especially when it comes to selling bulky devices.

Fear of misfits has long dwindled the profits of these entrepreneurs, as customers have to take on high risks when making the purchase without seeing the products first. The uncertainties on how the desired equipment fits in the space delay the purchase decision and often lead the prospect to other providers. Furthermore, “blind” purchases may lead to high return rates. While some gym owners told us they do not return merchandise due to the high costs of packaging and shipping, this might not be the case for all of them.

Considering that the initial purchase costs a very small new fitness studio about $25K, and a medium sized studio with over 25 equipments around $150K. It comes as no surprise that studio owners are eager to find ways to limit the risk of getting the wrong equipment. As a vendor, you can address this aversion with surprising ease and quite inexpensively. All they have to do is integrate a user friendly floor planner with their websites or equip their sales forces with a planner that can be used on site to generate accurate plans with their products almost instantly. Such a solution can improve not only the bottom lines of these companies but also the brands themselves.

Assuming you are a fitness equipment manufacturer or reseller, these are the main benefit you would get by integrating a floor planner with your web site:

Increased Sales Volume

Being able to preview your products in a plan means a lot to your prospective customers. This would help them figure out upfront if the chosen product fits in the planned space, encouraging them to make the purchase decision on the spot. With this issue solved, your site visitors would have no real reasons to visit your competitor’s online or physical store and to postpone the purchase. In short, the floor planner will bring you significant sales increases.

Reduced Return Rates

With a floor planning software your customers can easily find if the equipment they wish to purchase is appropriate for their space from the comfort of their homes. Going to the store to see the products is no longer necessary when site visitors can placed the desired items into a perfect replica of their rooms or floors. These easy to do plans lowers your return rates considerably.

Brand Differentiator

Companies that understand the importance of the online environment in selling fitness equipment and furniture have already turned their attention to online floor planners. According to our customers, the floor planner integrated with their websites added value to their offer, acting as an important image and sales booster.

The floor plans your customers would do will include not only your products but also branding elements such as your company logo, slogan and colors. All these elements will help the users of the planner remember you and turn into loyal customers.

Lead Generation

Users have to register to the floor planner in order to save a floor plan. This means your qualified leads must provide you with contact details, which you can then get from the Reporting Area add-on. At this stage all you will need is a good salesman to close the deals. The sales increases brought on by our solution would most certainly cover the cost of the planner, as many of our customers have discovered.

Additional Advantages Guaranteed by our Online Floor Planner

Some of the available solutions are affordable and have no strings attached. PlanningWiz, for example, is subscription based with a 1 month minimum contract. You may use a free custom trial version or existing planners customized for our existing customers to learn what the planner can do for you.

Some planners have fully featured 3D versions, while others come only in two dimensions. Depending on your industry and business model, both 2D and 3D may work well. Our customers in the Gym and Fitness equipment manufacturing / reselling area use the planner to show their prospective clients how the products fit in the available floor space, and the 3D version helps them preview the product in space prior to purchase.

If the previous ideas did not convince you to try our planner, here are a few additional reasons:

• Our customers are almost without exception surprised by the quality of the support experience they got with us;
• The extensive reporting metrics the planner generates allow you to target highly qualified leads and customers with the most appropriate promotional materials and sales pitches;
• The planner’s interface is both modern and rich in options;
• Adjusting the planner to meet your specific needs takes almost no effort;
• Our service is affordable;

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The planner prompts users to register/login in order to save a room design or to access previously saved projects. Immediately, the contact details of your users are available to you from the Reporting Area add-on, along with the list of products they have used to plan their spaces. Those are valuable insights that help you market your products more effectively.

What’s in:

• user contact info
• review saved plan to identify preferences
• top products
• search & export to .csv

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Using our experience and feedback gathered from clients using PlanningWiz all over the world, we have developed this purposeful document. This guide aims to help you use PlanningWiz to maximize its positive impact on your business results.

In case you’ve missed Part I: 3-Step Room Planner Visibility Checklist.

In case you’ve missed Part II: Employ Tactics for the PlanningWiz Leads Database

Business Boosting Tip Number 3: Take Advantage of Your PlannigWiz Room Planner Adaptability

The PlanningWiz room planner can become part of your communication tactics through various communication chanels. Below is a list of our recommended Top 5 free publicity chanels, based on PlanningWiz clients’feedback:

1. Newsletters. You can easily find PlanningWiz related themes for your newsletters: advice on different features, reminding that it is a free tool, user guides, news and updates.

2. Reviews: Include info about your free online room planner in any reviews and “how-to” articles written for online/local newspapers, magazines, or trade publications in which your brand benefits are mentioned.

3. Barters: Make partnerships with complementary business owners (like tile shops, rugs retailers, interior designers, architects, etc) to advertise on one another’s websites, store, etc.

4. Participate in online discussion groups/forums on space & room planning and room decoration and offer lots of helpful advice, based on your clients experience with the room planner.

5. Business gatherings: During trade shows, industry events or other business gatherings, make sure you hand out media kits or printed materials that point to the benefits brought to your clients by the free room planner experience.

To capture everything in a nutshell, PlanningWiz  is a valuable lead generation and as a sales tool. Using it to the top of its potential will help you boost your business results and support sales & profitability growth.

Enjoy using the PlanningWiz room planner and seeing your business grow!

Don’t forget: for any suggestions, observations or inquiries you are welcome to write to our Business Support team at office@planningwiz.com!

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The success of a room planner for a business is directly related to the amount of advertising that is made for the respective planner. This sentence is as good as a quote, as far as we are concerned.

With PlanningWiz you are offering a free and powerful design tool that increases the time users spend on your website and engages them with your offer. But if your users are hardly aware of it, they can’t enjoy it and you won’t be able to see much profitable outcome.

In case you’ve missed Part I: 3-Step Room Planner Visibility Checklist.

You should make sure that your room planner is prominently signalized, both online and offline, and you have checked the basics to reaping out serious benefits from it.

Next to come is our favorite one: exploring and employing the user data the planner collects from your website behind the scenes. This being said, please allow us to introduce you to the:

Business Boosting Tip Number 2: Make Use of Your PlanningWiz Planner Leads

The analytics of the planner create all the extra magic. In this place your anonymous web traffic is converted into registered prospects. You get here a steady stream of highly qualified leads, ready to use. You can track the contact details of the registered users and what products they are interested in. This is all you ever wanted to know about your users.

Below are 5 ideas for employing the user database your room planner generates:

1. Advertise sales promotions

2. Highlight some of the most popular features of the planner

3. Advertise in-store events

4. Include short written or visual guide on how to use certain planner features

5. Consider a campaign for those who have developed a plan in the last two weeks, or for those who have developed more than one plan.

* The reporting area allows you to properly segment registered users information. Based on this you can create targeted promotional campaigns based on the well segmented data received from registrants.  This is a great way to reduce your marketing cost per lead and increase your marketing return on investment and profitability.

Always remember to employ the planner generated database along with your current ones when creating a new marketing campaign.

to be continued…

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So what else can you do, beside enhancing your website with a branded room planner edition?

Read below about our Top 3 Business Boosting Tips that will guarantee and increase new lead generation, website engagement and communication opportunities for achieving your business objectives.

Business Boosting Tip Number 1: Make Your Planner Visible

PlanningWiz will bring profitable outcomes only if your clients are aware of its existence. Promoting your planner improves its visibility, usage and also leads to long-term sales increase. The success of a room planner is strongly linked to the amount of clients aware and using it.

We highly advice all of our clients to include PlanningWiz into their communication strategy. Here is how you can do that:

A. Promote The Planner On Your Website

Offering a free room planning tool on your website can transform your users’s interaction into a positive engagement experience. Your online visitors will spend more time on your website. This will create more opportunities to sell. You can make sure that the PlanningWiz room planner is prominently pointed out on your website homepage.

You might want to add a clearly visible link or a banner in a highly visible spot on the homepage. This also counts throughout the website, especially on the product categories and product details pages. By doing so you will maximize the time a potential client spend with your website and increase potential for cross or up-sales.

B. Promote The Planner In Your Store

Your clients will welcome the opportunity of having a room planner ready to use in-store. You can expose the planner through free access computers or video displays. In-store presence will be seen as a benefit your business ads to their shopping experience.

Due to the easy-to-use features, your sales agents should be able to assist customers with their desired floor plans designs. You can print the resulting floor plan, along with an itemized list of products, save it for future reference, or email it to the customer at the very moment. This is a great support for you in closing the sale.

C. Promote The Planner In Your Current Advertising Campaigns

It always helps to promote your on-line or in-store planning tool within your current advertising campaigns. You can present the planner as a benefit to the customer’s experience and a commitment for better service on your business’ behalf.

Make sure to include the room planner link (www.yourwebsite.com/planner) in any relevant advertisement or reference to your business services: online ads or advertorials, printed flyers or banners promoting your business.

Since new potential clients will always decide based on your advantages vs. competition’s, the benefit of a free on-line room planner on your website or in your stores will greatly support your sales argument!

to be continued …

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