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MARKETING Showcase 120 homes – at once!
It looks as if single screens in agency windows maybe a thing of the past. The savvy agent may want to offer more – and now he can. Point2See can display up to 120 properties concurrently in the window, or alternatively within the agency. It’s all very clever, supporting conventional interaction as well as gesture control through Microsoft’s Kinect – the user merely points to see further information on any property. The system creates and displays very crisp animations for each property using existing photographs and it supports videos and style sheets for different estate agents’ branding. It is visually dramatic and very responsive to interaction. Point2see aims to provide a unique, captivating user
For full info – just point at the house you like!’
experience while it promotes the agency, it could also be a source of revenue from hosting local suppliers’ or mortgage lender advertising. The system is based on a
revolutionary new software rendering engine which can work on entry level PCs and tablets. It
FLOOR PLANS Three million reasons to celebrate at Metropix!
Metropix has reached a major milestone, with its 3,000,000th floor plan being
completed online. Oxfordshire-based property
marketing specialist, KeyAGENT, was the company that took Metropix to the 3,000,000 mark and to thank them, the team presented them with a digital camera. Tom Claridge, Operations
Director at KeyAGENT said, “As part of our award-winning solution, we provide estate agents with high quality marketing support and materials, of which RICS- standard quality floor plans are one element. Offering
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various types of floor plans to our clients ensures their property marketing collateral makes their agency stand out from the crowd.” Brian Farrell, MD of
Metropix is a happy man, “A big thank you to all of our clients for helping us reach this significant 3,000,000 milestone in just six years – including the team at KeyAGENT who completed the 3 millionth order. Demand for floor plans continue to grow and we continue to work with our clients to evolve our service and provide new features and products to provide plans that fully support the sales and marketing process.”
uses a new multi state persistence caching system for cloud delivery of content which overcomes buffering issues and continues to work even with network failures. Nicholas Moss, Director of
Brampton Partnership, seeing Point2See for the first time, said, “Pictures and static images of
properties have been around for too long – it’s time for the industry to embrace this new medium. Point2See displays so many animations that I will be able to have my entire catalogue on display in all my agencies increasing our reach. With this human gesture interface
prospective buyers can select what they want to see instead of looking at systems which only show what they are programmed to do – this is a very timely and important additional resource.” The entry price of £200 a month includes property updates.
http://www.point2see.com
Metropix’s operations manager, Danielle Le
Cornu with Tom Claridge.
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