Act! By Sage Premium for Real Estate 2006 by Sage

Description

ACT! by Sage Premium for Real Estate 2006 enables residential real estate professionals to instantly access complete contact and customer information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related communications to help sell more homes and cultivate good referrals in today’s competitive residential real estate market. Renowned for its ease of use and intuitive interface, ACT! Premium for Real Estate offers features developed specifically for real estate. With more than 2.5 million individual users and 32,000 corporate customers, ACT! continues to be the award-winning market leader in contact and customer management.

Platforms

Palm OS, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Pocket PC 2002, Windows 2003 Server

Product Features

• Helps real estate professionals quickly become more productive and effective in managing prospects and customers
• Centralize critical buyer, seller, and vendor information and stay organized
• Instantly access key information for high levels of customer service
• Manage and grow business relationships through top-notch prospecting and marketing communications
• Prioritize your work to stay on top of appointments and tasks and increase productivity

Editorial Review

Whether you're a single-agent or part of a broker business or a large workgroup, ACT! Premium for Real Estate can help you to become more productive and effective in managing prospects and customers. With more than 2.5 million individual users and 32,000 corporate customers, ACT! Premium for Real Estate continues to be the award-winning market leader in contact and customer management among real estate professionals.

Synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contact and To-Do information, Notes, and History items to Palm OS or Pocket PC devices.

Organize all your customer information in one place for quick and easy access. View larger.

Notes and History tabs capture, track, and search on customer data for instant access to information and increased customer service. View larger.

Prioritize your day to stay on top of appointments and tasks. View larger.

Access and report on information quickly for a complete view of customer interactions. View larger.

Centralize Buyer, Seller and Vendor Information
ACT! Premium for Real Estate is a single, central repository for critical prospect and customer information captured across your business — whether you are a one-person business or a large workgroup. ACT! Premium for Real Estate enables you to keep detailed prospect and customer information, group relevant contacts, capture all customer communications on the contact record, track opportunities through the sales process, and report on overall effectiveness.

ACT! Premium for Real Estate can help you can track complete buyer, seller and vendor information including contact details, notes and history, appointments and to-dos, documents and sales opportunities. The Groups feature lets you easily communicate and schedule with related contacts can create up to 15 hierarchies of subgroups for managing information. Groups can even be utilized to track properties and contacts associated with those properties, and you can attach critical documents such as inspection reports, house photos, MLS listings, and more to the contact record.

Instant Information Access for High Levels of Customer Service
ACT! Premium for Real Estate allows you to search information in on any field, or search by key words to access contact and information immediately. Did you receive a call from a prospect but only caught the first four digits of their phone number? No problem. Simply perform a lookup on the phone number field and quickly find who you are looking for. You can also perform numeric lookups by ranges such as greater than or less than queries and save these queries for reusable searches.

For quick and easy referencing, ACT! Premium for Real Estate allows you to track all of your critical contact and customer communications on the contact record. The software offers 30 letter templates customized for real estate in the areas of Letters to Buyers, FSBOs, Lead Follow-up, Open House Follow-up, Referral Letters, Letters to Sellers, and PR Campaigns for the Holidays. These custom letter templates were sourced from a respected real estate communications expert to improve your communications. ACT! Mail Merge allows you to correspond with multiple contacts (either via e-mail or paper correspondence) and automatically track a history on each contact record.

Prioritize Your Work and Manage Your Leads
Stay on top of appointments and tasks by scheduling activities using one of more than 20 activity types. Or, set up an Activities Series using one of the nine custom Activity Series specific to real estate including active listing, new listing, listing prospect, active buyer, new buyer, buyer prospect, and more. In addition, ACT! Premium for Real Estate offers multiple Calendar Views including daily/weekly/monthly/today views, as well as activity alarms, so you never miss an important appointment or deliverable.

You can also import leads from a variety of sources so you can start turning those prospects into customers immediately. You can segment leads into relevant groups, schedule an activity series for all leads that you imported so you have a set marketing strategy with reminders of upcoming tasks, and send your first personalized communication using mail merge. The software also enables real estate agents to track sales opportunities through close utilizing the standard sales process or a process customized to suit your business.

In addition to the more than 40 standard reports in ACT! Premium for Real Estate — including phone lists, activity reports, and sales summaries — you'll also have nine custom report templates for real estate at your disposal. These include: buyer completed activities, seller completed activities, activities by type and activities by contact so you can actively update your buyer or seller, see which marketing activities converted to sales, and determine the most effective communication vehicles. And best of all, you can synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contact and To-Do Information to your Palm OS or Pocket PC device, so you always have access to your critical contact information while you're on the road.