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Hello Motor City: Movoto Is Now Live In Michigan
Detroit and suburbs can now take advantage of Movoto’s powerful home search tools and meet top local real estate agents to help them buy a home. We are proud to announce that we have expanded our services into the great state of Michigan over the weekend. Home buyers from Waterford to Ann Arbor to Detroit will now have access to more than…
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Real Estate Listing Alerts Delivered Daily to Your Inbox
Hope everyone is finding themselves well during this holiday season. I know I am pumped to head home for some Christmas and New Years action! As an early present, we released a new and improved set of listing emails. Quality listing emails are key to a home search; they let you know of all the…
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Search for Open Houses on a Map!
I have personally wanted this feature for a while, Open House search on Mapsearch! Open House search is the latest in a long line of improvements we have made to Mapsearch over the course of the year. Open House search on Mapsearch has been oft requested and it is a step up from our old…
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Movoto Named One of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley
Movoto was ranked as the 14th fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley. You can read a full wrap up of the top Fast-Private 2011 companies to get a sense of what companies have been doing well in Silicon Valley over the past several years. We were also pat of Inc’s 5000 fastest growing private…
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5 Examples of Awesome Real Estate Business Cards
Oftentimes, if you work for a national brokerage your business cards are just company templates with your specific contact details. These cards serve their purpose and do all right. When you take the extra time, however, to create your own unique look it sets you apart from every other real estate professional in the business.…
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Hello Buckeyes – Movoto Launches In Ohio
We are happy to let everyone know that we have just launched in the state of Ohio. Among the 33,585 new active listings added to the site, you will find: Cleveland (1800+ Active Listings) Akron (2100+ Active Listings) Canton (900+ Active Listings) Youngstown (755+ Active Listings) Movoto is the only major online real estate company…
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Larger Font Size – Better Readability or Not for Real Estate Websites?
Today I came across this gem of an article about using larger font sizes in your website’s body copy. Judging by the amount & varied type of comments the article has gotten it’s a pretty controversial topic amongst designers. To summarize Bonn’s argument, you should use larger sized text for your body copy as it…
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Movoto Real Estate Mapsearch Evolution
Movoto Real Estate Mapsearch Over Time We set out this year to improve our much loved Mapsearch feature. It was the foundation of our site when it fist launched in 2005. We were one of the first, if not the first, sites to offer a map based real estate search. However, we had not updated…
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Login Re-Design: How We Arrived at Beauty
When Movoto celebrated its 5th anniversary earlier this year it dawned on us that certain parts of the site had not been touched in 5 years. The one part of the site that we see everyday, multiple times a day, is the login screen. There really wasn’t anything wrong with it, it was super functional…
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Free Movoto Real Estate Badges
We just launched a new set of Movoto badges that you can place on your website, blog, Facebook profile, lunch box, and anywhere else you can stick a picture. The interface allows you to pick a background color for the badge and a size. Here is what they look like: We have one modeled on…