Once you uncover information, the insights can be surprising, and surprisingly useful. One of our customers, after deploying the TitleInsight CRM system, made several valuable discoveries. Customer performance reports uncovered that a longstanding customer’s order count had recently dropped to almost zero. Some quick research and a phone call confirmed that orders had
recently been directed to a competitor, because of an unsatisfactory experience.
Management was able to intervene with the client, restoring their faith in the company
(and assuring future orders).
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Commercial Real Estate Prospecting
LandPoint for Commercial Brokers
In commercial real estate, analyzing the stream of market activity daily to find qualified listing leads is challenging. Often, requiring time-intensive research across multiple platforms and information sources. Because this market is highly competitive and fast-paced; brokers need to act quickly and decisively to win listings ahead of the competition. Finding the right solution that streamlines market analysis and helps brokers easily identify, evaluate, and understand insights about commercial property opportunities is critical to success. Recent advances in real estate research and GIS mapping technologies make it easier to discover potential deals, and allows brokers to quickly move from a notice of market activity to conducting focused due diligence on relevant property opportunities. Thus, brokers are empowered to take confident action in order to obtain their next listing.
Our LandPoint application is the most up-to-date technology platform for commercial property research and analysis in the Treasure Valley with advanced mapping and presentation capabilities that solves these key issues. Designed for commercial real estate brokers, analysts, researchers, and retailers, LandPoint helps users to discover, understand and capitalize on opportunities. Leverage the aggregated real estate data and tools available in LandPoint to move from surface level market noise to drill down into robust data to derive actionable insight and take action with sellers to win listings.
Winning Valuable Listings in a Dynamic Market
Brokers rely on daily market activity to tip them off about potential listings opportunities. A deeper analysis is necessary to evaluate properties in order to present a credible value to potential buyers and sellers and enable the broker to close the deal. If you are interested in winning more listings, we have the premier application to reach this goal – Contact Us for a Demo on how we can help.
What’s it worth
CORE BENEFITS FOR THE TITLE INDUSTRY
For the title industry, CRM software allows the segmentation of customer contact data and activity according to specific criteria and automate frequent activities like customer touches and follow-ups.
It helps make sure the sales staff is prioritizing the right leads, and allows both sales and escrow to see the history of a client or potential client. Gone are the days of hunting through different programs to figure out who to call or how to keep track of the status of a client.
Many title companies have already churned through a CRM or two since the technology achieved mainstream popularity, but continued investment in the space and improved systems are ensuring that the functionality is only getting more focused and the return on investment is increasing. With the availability of a targeted, cost-effective, cloud-based CRM designed specifically for the title industry, even the skeptical have more reasons than ever to give it a try.
The more CRM software applications become targeted and simple, the more time the user has to focus on high-value tasks. CRM technology in the cloud can make you more productive, organized, visible and aware. You get all the data and information you need wherever you are.
Here are some core benefits
COST
Don’t let the monthly fee fool you, cloud-based software is less expensive than desktop tools. When you consider the initial cost of desktop software, as well as the added costs for annual upgrades, internal IT management and customer support this is apparent. Let’s not forget the time and trouble of reinstalling a desktop program (and transferring your data) whenever you get a new computer. In the long term, desktop applications are considerably more expensive.
ACCESS
With software platforms residing in the cloud, you have access to all the data and functionality no matter the location or device you’re using. This means you’re never without vital contact information, reports or other statistics and materials you might need throughout the day. Information can be added from multiple teams, from multiple locations, real time; no more entering data later “back at the office.”
Cloud-based software also helps you collaborate efficiently with everyone on your team. Each vested partner can have access to common information that’s updated real time — so you can move the business goals forward together.
SECURITY
Your data is more secure in the cloud than on your personal computer. Because security is a vital consideration we employ very sophisticated security measures. Information that’s on your desktop is more vulnerable, and paper copies are more likely to be misplaced or picked up by someone else.
FLEXIBILITY
There’s typically no up-front installation cost with cloud-based software. This means you can try out a new application with a minimal financial commitment. You’re not putting any storage-gobbling software on your desktop, and if you decide the program is not what you’re looking for, you can drop it.
RECOVERY
Cloud-based software allows you to dismiss worries about a hard drive crashing or a laptop being stolen. With desktop applications, these incidents can be true disasters, costing weeks of recovery time and wreaking havoc on client relationships. Data stored in the cloud is automatically backed up and isn’t going anywhere, even if your iPad ends up at the bottom of a lake.
SAVE THE TREES
Speaking of paper, you’ll use much less of it when you rely on cloud-based tools. Naturally, we’re big believers in cloud-based software; it’s at the core of our product. But we truly believe the cloud will make your life easier however you use it, and you need to understand its advantages.
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ROI’s ARE 1.5x HIGHER THAN 3 YEARS AGO
According to Nucleus Research, a firm that specializes in case-based technology research, the ROI for a CRM implementation — in the form of increased revenues and improved operational efficiency — is substantial. Furthermore, it continues to grow due to efficiencies in software design and fierce pricing competition.
As we’ve outlined in previous articles, customer relationship management software is crucial to any Title Company in the business of selling. CRM applications provide one platform to track every interaction with existing and target customers, helping your marketing and escrow departments improve client relationships as well as prospect more efficiently. CRM platforms have been implemented by companies across many sectors since the mid-90’s however they continue to become broad based generic elephants, encompassing more bells and whistles and less focused on industry specific needs.
There are a few reasons why CRM investments continue to yield increasing returns.
The Cloud
Cloud-based technology is the fore of software innovation, enabling companies to store data and access it across platforms from multiple devices. Switching to the cloud increases the return on investment. According to Nucleus research, cloud technology for CRM delivers 1.7 times greater return on investment than a desktop or server-based software implementation.
What is the cloud? It’s technically a network of remote servers linked to the Internet utilized to store, manage and process data. If you use Gmail, Spotify, or any streaming service, you’ve used the cloud.
Take the Burden away from Traditional IT
Historically, CRM software was administered through a company’s in-house IT department, often supported by expensive technology consultants. Knowledge of how to use and get the most out of the software was several steps removed from the employees who actually interacted with clients and prospects.
With TitleInsight, the cloud based technology was framed and driven by Title Industry Executives — relieving the burden on internal resources, ensuring a smooth and successful implementation process. Finally a CRM software that can be used by employees from all departments, empowering them to collaborate seamlessly and make key business decisions with detailed information. The emergence of this user-friendly platform has allowed the Title Industry to adopt a systematic process for tracking and managing existing and prospective customer relations.
A GUIDE TO CRM FOR THE TITLE INDUSRY
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
A GUIDE TO CRM FOR THE TITLE INDUSRY
Customer relationship management, (CRM) refers to platform that helps companies track, manage and analyze interactions with contacts, whether they’re prospective or current customers. A catchall term for the software as a whole, CRM software is generally designed to compile information across the organization and is a critical tool to help users gain insight into what drives business.
For the title industry in particular, the technology helps you keep track of contacts, orders, marketing events, customer service request and more. Because CRMs provide a relational database, you have flexibility in looking at what channels drive your business.
Why we set out to solve title industry CRM problems
TitleInsight was born out of our client’s frustration with existing technology. The title industry is all about relationships, so why couldn’t we find an existing customer relationship management (CRM) system that fit our needs?
We ran through the gamut of existing products, but nothing was right; either the application was too bulky, needed constant administration internally or was too expensive. The functionality and design we needed seemed to be something any CRM should have.
What we wanted in a CRE CRM
Flexibility. No boxed CRM fit our business process. What we realized was that while there were numerous generic examples in the marketplace, none were laser focused on our issues.
Simplicity and design. There is clearly a trend toward simplicity in the software world, which is to be expected after a decade of software design in which aesthetics and ease of use were overlooked in favor of over-the-top bells and whistles, most of which added little value to overall functionality. The title industry CRM space fared no differently.
Mobility. We knew desktop tools were becoming obsolete. We are a mobile society and mobility is a must.
CRM and pipeline management. What do you do about customer focus prior to an order? Are you spending 80% of your sales focus on 20% of those customers actually bringing you an order? Most CRMs aren’t designed for this specific sales cycle. Other examples abound. How about tracking your pipeline, sales expenses and your client’s requests? Spreadsheets, sticky notes, legal pads? We used them all. The existing options in the marketplace were too limited.
Niche product type. Let’s face it, CRM software for the title industry is a narrow vertical, specialty product. Without major software companies designing products in the space, the technology has been in many cases difficult to implement, clumsy, admin-heavy and short-lived.
How Do You Solve the Issues?
We started by researching a platform to leverage. There are plenty of options —Zoho, Sugar, Google Apps—but we decided to create our platform from scratch for a variety of reasons solving a list of deficiencies.
The result is a simple yet functional CRM specifically for the title industry that solved the market problems. And after using it ourselves and hearing great feedback from our industry development partners, we realized what a game changer TitleInsight was.