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Content Marketing…or Inbound Marketing. Before sharing more about this modern approach, you must truly understand how traditional Outbound Marketing works. We use our years of experience to help you craft incredible video content that will execute your strategy and bring results. For old [...]

Google street view for hotels has expanded to include interior virtual tours of hotels (formerly called Google Business View) and can be acquired from Google trusted partners like Barnes Creative Studios. Potential hotel guests travel around Google daily exploring hotels. Hotels with Google [...]

Google street view has expanded to include interior Google virtual tours of businesses (formerly called Google Business View) and can be acquired from Google trusted partners like Barnes Creative Studios. Customers can travel around the world exploring and enter any participating business with [...]

Maximizing hotel group sales is the golden ticket for many hotel brands looking to raise profits for their property. Meeting spaces and unique group event spaces are a potent commodity and often hard to sell without an onsite visit from a meeting planner. The latest advancements in technology [...]

The combination of our power panorama and Matterport virtual tours are a very effective way to explore a property for consideration. For group booking, you can send 1 link (to the power panorama) to the decision makers with embedded media that will give you an instant advantage. Our power [...]

Finding a great 360 video player can be quite deceiving, especially when you are cranking away testing out players on a desktop and getting a great experience. Everything looks great…then it happens…you try it on mobile or an iPad. Uh-oh. It doesn’t look the same!

There are not many road trips that are as iconic as the Pacific Coast Highway on the coast of California. I have made this journey a few times and learned a lot along the way each time that will hopefully help you have a great experience. Below are some great hotel options complete with virtual [...]

Matterport has released a game changing feature that will significantly raise the value of your Matterport virtual tours and also let you tell your story with hundreds of forms of multi-media. This new feature will be offered by Barnes Creative Studios at NO EXTRA COST to you. Multimedia [...]

Usually I write about uses for our technology in regards to hospitality, commercial real estate, etc. Today I thought it would be fun to highlight a new Atlanta startup and show how a Matterport virtual tour can put you in the cockpit of the exclusive BMW i8 hybrid concept car. The Atlanta [...]

Matterport Virtual Tours can be a fantastic multimedia addition to your website. In addition we enjoy creating bonus video and photo content from the virtual tours once they are complete. Below are some live examples of how you can generate bonus multi media material all originating from a [...]

Win 5 Free Matterport Virtual Tours for your Hotel or Resort. This is an offer for hotels and resorts anywhere in the world. We know that you budget doesn’t always allow for everything you want in the marketing department. This is why we want to help interested resorts with 5 FREE [...]

This article originally appeared in The Atlanta Business Chronicle on Nov 27, 2015. Written by Phil. W. Hudson Many Atlantans know Steve Barnes as a radio personality and actor, but the self-described tech geek and travel junkie has married his passion of tech with his love of travel into a [...]

With destination marketing the smart money markets the “place” and everyone wins. Who is everyone? Everyone is every hotel, restaurant, experience and economy that is battling for the travel dollar. Travel is big business and intelligent destination marketing can bring in a big haul [...]

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“Using Barnes Creative Studios (approved Starwood video producer) was incredibly beneficial as they truly understand how to tell a great story, used top of the line cinematic equipment, and have a very small production footprint. Their understanding of our brand and content goals makes it [...]

There’s always that “place”. That place that everyone who you meet that has been there lights up when you mention the name. That name is Cap Maison in St. Lucia. Cap Maison is luxury travel defined. From celebrities to honeymooners, it’s difficult to find someone who doesn’t love Cap Maison. [...]

Luxury travel is defined a lot of ways. It’s all based on expectations, word-of-mouth, customer service, food, overall experience and many other things. Only when you have a resort that completely understands and excels at living up to luxury travel expectations do you get perfection. You get [...]

Commercial Real Estate Video can be a huge differentiator with a commercial real estate listing but the budget isn’t always willing to permit video production. In a perfect world you planned for a cinematic video production. In the real world sometimes you have to find a cheaper [...]

Sustainability is important far beyond luxury travel. Bucuti & Tara is a fantastic, green luxury Aruba resort that is doing their part to help save our planet. They are the only Caribbean resort with 4 green certifications: LEED Silver, Green Globe, ISO 14001 and Travelife Gold. Bucuti is [...]

If you want to WOW them at your next commercial real estate presentation we have you covered. Imagine talking through selling your next multi million dollar deal with a live feed of your asset up on the big screen while you discuss all of the value propositions. What? Yes, that’s exactly what [...]

Commercial real estate marketing technology is an interesting beast. I’ve been working with both large and small commercial real estate companies for many years and love watching them get excited about the growing digital wave. There’s one piece of technology that has blown them away. Drones [...]

Luxury resort marketing can be a tall task, especially perched on a jungle ridge 1000 feet above sea level. To call Ladera a unique resort is a major understatement. Ladera couldn’t be in a more perfect, tropical location as it sits high upon the Soufriere Volcano. Ladera is the only [...]

This article originally appeared at Bisnow.com on March 17, 2015. Click To Watch In the commercial real estate industry of the digital age, it’s no longer business as usual—it’s show business. Taking a few digital photos of your property and slapping them on a website is no longer acceptable. [...]

When it comes to Mexico luxury hotels, The Banyan Tree brand has 2 amazing offerings. Congrats to our Client Banyan Tree Cabo Marques, Named #1 Hotel in Mexico by New York Daily News. Banyan Tree Cabo Marques sits on the mountain cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Bay of Acapulco. [...]

This article originally appeared on Travel Post in December 2014 and was written by Ryan Rudnansky. Drones are becoming increasingly popular tools to capture locations around the world, whether you are a traveler or a travel company. The flying robot, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), has been [...]

Hotel video can be tricky. If you are not succinct in telling your story, you will lose your audience quickly. In some cases, brands have spent thousands of dollars on a hotel video without connecting with an audience because they didn’t tell their story. Instead, they strung together a [...]

Restaurant video can be very impactful for a new brand that wants to quickly get their story out to the foodie masses. Fact is: any type of brand can greatly benefit from having a great video strategy. One important element for your restaurant video strategy needs to be that you host your [...]

Hotel video fills rooms fast. If you know how to leverage it with the lethal combination of social media you could make incredible impact with your marketing. ONE MINUTE of video is equivalent to 1.8 MILLON WORDS according to according to Dr. James McQuivey of Forrester Research. When you think [...]

Real estate video sells property fast. If you know how to leverage it with the lethal combination of social media you could even make millions of dollars a year. ONE MINUTE of video is equivalent to 1.8 MILLON WORDS according to according to Dr. James McQuivey of Forrester Research. When you [...]