tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170778262011-04-21T22:06:27.895+01:00Welcome! This is a home for informal news about what's new and upcoming at Metropix. We'll post the sort of things that get us excited, like when our customers get mentioned in the press, or if we're releasing a great new feature. So if you'd like to keep up to date, or even contribute your own thoughts in the comments, you've come to the right place!The Metropix Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07485101416728649503noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17077826.post-54196766552697793202007-03-09T05:24:00.000Z2007-03-09T05:25:57.060Z

Our new blog is now up and running, so please join us over here.Best wishes,The Metropix Team

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We've moved our blog over to a new home at Typepad in prepration for more regular blogging from Metropix in 2007. If you've been subscribing to a Blogger feed, please re-subscribe via Feedburner using the following address:http://feeds.feedburner.com/MetropixTeamBlogMore from us soon!

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As UK readers will know, the Property Computer Show is the big event of the year for real estate technology companies. This week we returned to the show at the same stand as last year, and again it was a pretty hectic couple of days. At PCS 2005 we launched 3D Walkthroughs as an additional service, and this year the main news was the addition of 3D Floor Plans to the mix, as highlighted on this

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Another new feature launched today is watermarked floor plans:It's a great way to apply your branding to all your plans, and there are a number of options allowing you to customise the exact appearance. To set this up, just go to Your Account, Change Preferences and select the Add Watermark category. You'll be asked to upload your logo -- for the best results, choose a nice, high resolution

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We're delighted to be launching a major new product today: 3D Floor Plans.Our 3D Floor Plans are built from the same technology as our 3D Walkthroughs, and so the quality and detailing of the plans are far ahead of the 3D plans currently available in the market. And with a launch price of just four pounds (five US dollars), we believe they're excellent value for money too.To order, look for the

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Today we've added many of the the most popularly requested symbols, including sinks with drainers, one-and-a-half bowl sinks, fireplaces, a different hob (cooktop), bidet, boiler and more.If there's a symbol that would be useful to you, just let us know. The best way to do it is to fax or email us a sketch of the symbol you need and we'll take it from there.

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We're pleased to announce that a raft of enhancements have been made to the Metropix service since our last update. The range of furnishings in 3D Walkthroughs has been extended by the addition of new living rooms, designed for smaller homes, and new dining rooms as well. And there are more major upgrades due shortly, including the ability to customise the overall look of the property in a

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As promised last week, here's an example of a 3D Walkthrough with photos: click to view in a new window. This was produced for Charles Lawson, based in Oxfordshire and is one of many 3Ds with photos that have been ordered since we launched the feature last week.As always, we're keen to hear your views so please fill in the Contact Us form if you have any comments.

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If you've ordered a 3D Walkthrough in the last few days, you will have noticed that we've updated the ordering process and added some new screens. Following customer feedback, our main focus at present is actually on new fixture and furnishing styles. However two smaller projects have come to fruition early.Firstly, the system now asks whether the property has its own external entrance door,

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We're writing this blog entry from Metropix's new office, high up on the 5th floor in the heart of London's Soho district. We love it, although it'll be a few weeks before Brian gets over climbing ten flights of stairs every day!Due to the office move, our mailing address has also changed and is now:MetropixGainsborough House81 Oxford StreetLondonW1D 2EUThe week's almost at an end but before we

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We've had a new video produced to help you promote 3D Walkthroughs to your vendors. Complete with music and a voiceover by a BBC announcer no less, it's the best way to explain the benefits of a 3D Walkthrough.To see the video, please visit our updated 3D Walkthroughs page.There are lots of ways to use this video to your advantage. A quick way to give your own web site an update would be to

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Metropix floor plans have been popular in the Republic of Ireland since launch, with many offices of the leading estate agents finding them the quickest and most cost effective solution. The success of the product has been all the more remarkable given that it has occurred almost entirely by word of mouth. Today we're pleased to cement that success by announcing our first major contract in

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Here's a very brief roundup of some of the more recent improvements made to the service in response to customer feedback:• We discovered some customers were repeatedly adjusting room measurements to get the estimated floor area to match the floor area they had obtained from another source, such as the property developer. Rather than having to go back and forth, we changed the system so that

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Is it a bus? Is it a plane? No, it's the quite remarkable Parkers 3D taxi now taking fares all over Reading:(Click the picture for a larger view.)The taxi is part of Parkers' 3D Walkthrough marketing campaign and designed to help win new business generally. The combination of the Walkthroughs and the taxi makes a compelling story and has helped gain them publicity in the local papers. Don't

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In fact, as many of you will know, we haven't been away, but it's been a good few months since the blog has been updated. It's been a busy time as the company's growth has accelerated rapidly -- we now produce many hundreds of floor plans every day, more than one a minute in fact, and have become the world's largest supplier of 3D Walkthroughs (even if we do say so ourselves!).To cope with this

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The development team have just gone live with another round of improvements to our site. We'll update later with further details, but in the meantime here is a summary of what's changed over the last week or so:- Most customers now need only log in once per day. When returning to our site multiple times during a day, the login screen will be bypassed on most computers.- The ability to draw

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Most of our clients will no doubt be aware that we’ve updated the site generally and also the technology behind it. Hopefully you like the new logo and find the slightly redesigned web pages even more user friendly. Just about all our clients are now using the upgraded service which is being delivered using the very latest technology around. But it’s not all about technology – there are, of

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We're only a few days into the New Year, but already it feels as though it was an eternity ago! That said it's surely too early for anyone's New Year resolutions to be faltering isn't it? Either way, Metropix's commitment to provide the most innovative property visualisation services around remains as strong today as it was when the company was founded two years ago.But we digress. It's time

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Plymouth estate agents Lang & Co have gained some useful publicity in the local press following a press release about Metropix 3D Walkthroughs:In the first few hours after publication, the article resulted in four telephone calls about Walkthroughs and two valuation requests! If we can help you with publicity, just contact us.

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Hanley's estate agents in Highworth make quite an impression in the current edition of the Swindon Advertiser with this editorial coverage:As always, we're delighted to receieve copies of press articles whenever using Metropix helps get you a mention. Just drop us a line via one of the methods the Contact Us page.

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This is where we try to help you draw more quickly and easily, by offering a useful tip every month or so.For many, floor plans look their best when they have the kitchen and bathroom furniture included, and it shouldn't take more than a few seconds to add them. If it's taking you longer, then read on!To add the worktops, with a sink and maybe a hob, the quickest method is to drag a "worktop"

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It’s official. Estate agents regularly work far longer than the 9–5 norm. Not only that, but a substantial proportion of them are sometimes still hard at it when most ordinary people are tucked up in bed!These are some of the intriguing findings in an analysis of our customers' working patterns.According to the figures, agents with more than 4 offices routinely do 21% of their work outside normal

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Our 3D Walkthroughs have been displayed on Rightmove for some time, but their presentation on the site has now been enhanced:The "Walkthrough Tour" link (indicated by our arrow) differentiates the 3D Walkthrough from a conventional virtual tour, and shows clearly the wide range of marketing tools utilised by the agent. In this example, the agent is CJ Hole in the Bristol area -- here's a link to

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Alison Cork featured us in her Really Useful Column, in Wednesday's London Evening Standard:Thanks Alison!

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The Times' Property Editor, Catherine Riley, writes about Metropix in her column today. "...with the price for a walkthrough starting from just £9 the temptation to have a go yourself is almost overwhelming. Users simply create a floorplan on the website, www.metropix.com, and in 24 hours this can be magically transformed into an electronic trip around your house." The article discusses the

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A small update to our floor plan drawing today: the Add Stairs button will now allow you to add two separate staircases between the same two floors. (Previously, it was necessary to use the drag-and-drop stair icon to achieve this.)There are also lots of new room names available to choose from, including "Porch" and "Wardrobe".Just today's two enhancements -- lots more in the pipeline, of which

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Those that attended this years Property Computer Show in Islington may have spotted that we created quite a stir with the official launch of the 3D Walkthrough service! Large plasma screens displayed our latest 3D Walkthroughs, and a floor plan demo which allowed everyone to see at a glance just how easy it is draw plans using Metropix.Some of the country's leading estate agents are already

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3D Walkthroughs may be the very latest technology, but their affordability makes them ideal for the lettings market as well as sales. cmRENT, based in Braintree, have been making full use of Walkthroughs, and that has earned them this well-placed article in the Essex Chronicle:

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It's fantastic - since its introduction just last year Metropix has already become the floor plan service of choice for property professionals far and wide. Why? Well that's simple – its really easy to use, it costs far less than the alternatives, and, of course, any floor plan can be converted directly into a 3D Walkthrough.3D Walkthroughs are being "officially" launched at the Property

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Here's another good example of how to use Metropix to get some free advertising in the local press:Robinsons were pleased to get nearly half of the Dunstable on Sunday property section's front page. We'll be adding press resources to our website soon, but in the meantime why not contact us to obtain a press release and high resolution 3D images?

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Here at Metropix we want everyone to find it really easy to draw floor plans and the team have volunteered me (Brian) to provide a “tip of the month”. My task is to get everyone drawing a 3 (or even 4 or 5!) bedroom house within 10 minutes. Easy for some already I know, but for those that wish to speed up, here's my first tip to help you along you along the way:When creating an additional level,

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Another good mention in the press for Hunters -- this time, their Harrogate office is getting the credit. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Our customers' stories about 3D Walkthroughs always seem to get good placement -- it must be the 3D graphics that do it. This time Hunters, a major agent in Yorkshire & Manchester, got this story right at the front of Manchester Living magazine. Click the image to see a larger version.

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We're gearing up here for a publicity drive in the run-up to the PCS Expo in Islington, London in October. (If you'd like an invite, just drop us a line -- we have about 5,000!) Here's a press release that we're putting out in the coming weeks:WALKTHROUGH BREAKTHROUGH FROM METROPIXLondon-based property visualisation specialists Metropix have pulled off a world first with the launch of a new 3D

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...and for us, it's The Hunts Post! One of the very first of our customers to use 3D Walkthroughs is Harvey Robinson in Huntingdon, England. The news of their "computerised property guide" made the front page of the local paper, and made us all smile here at Metropix. Has using Metropix got your name in print recently? Do let us know! And if it hasn't, get in touch and we'll help you make it

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Welcome! This is where we, the people behind Metropix, write when there's something we want to tell everyone about. We'll post the sort of things that get us really excited, like when we're mentioned in the press, or if we're releasing a great new feature. So if you'd like to keep up to date with events here at Metropix Mansions, you've come to the right place!

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