What Can Instant Property Information Text Messages Do For You?
Property Information
Technology development over recent years has enabled us to get more information, more quickly, at any time of the day we require. The internet has revolutionised the way we search for the next property we plan to buy or rent, with 80% of us using it as our first point of call (ref: www.home.co.uk). It is also well known in the industry that agency boards outside properties not only raise the profile of the company, but actually lead to direct phone calls or internet enquiries and therefore a chance of a sale or rental. However, for most of us to find out about a property from the internet, we have to wait until we get in front of a computer, by which time we either completely forget or were unsure of the street we were on, especially if it's a new area. Many of us don't want to 'phone someone for fear of being stuck talking to a 'pushy' agent, when really it was just to find out whether it was suitable or not, so, many of those possible enquiries that could have been generated from the investment in boards can go to waste.
Instant Information
Text messaging has been one of the fastest adopted technologies with over 1.4 billion of them sent in January in the UK alone (ref: www.out-law.com) and an average of 3 million messages sent in the UK every hour (ref:the mobile data association www.themda.org). The reasons why we use them vary tremendously, from those of us that only use them as something as a last resort to pass on a message, those of us that send dirty jokes or the odd social 'keep in touch' text, to those of us that seem to have lost the ability to actually talk to anyone on the phone anymore and have highly evolved thumbs. The important message is that we, in general, are very comfortable with this technology and with mobile costs reducing, it is more acceptable and popular to receive information via text message as well. We are also more of a 24 hour society than we ever have been with approximately 3.5m workers in the UK on shift work (Incomes Data Services www.incomesdata.co.uk/). We want to be able to perform tasks whenever we want, not just when things are open. When we're out and about we want to get information on the move. So why can we not get information about the properties we walk past on our way to work, when we're travelling into town for shopping, on a night out or on that dreamy walk in our favourite area that we've always talked about moving to?
Instant Property Information
The Instant Property Information (I.P.I.) system can utilise a technology we are all extremely comfortable with to help do something that all of us in our lives will do (some a lot more than others). By just texting a simple number with a unique code, they can get a basic description of the property as well as a record of the agent and the agent's number. They may just delete this because it's a house converted into 4 flats when they wanted a 5 bedroom house, but if interested, they now have all the details on their mobile 'phone. They've also got this information within seconds, can carry on their day as normal and maybe even pick up a few more on their way about town. At the same time, your office is collecting the information, so not only can you call them back at a later date, but it is giving you valuable information about what boards are being seen and noticed, if you're getting a lot of messages about one board but nobody follows up, then you know you might need to put a slip on the property to give more information about it. Overall, it brings your agency into the modern mobile world and gives you another element of 24 hour staffing without having to employ staff 24 hours.
Free Instant Property Information
Even better, but free to who? Well that's up to you. We have an extremely versatile system that allows us to tailor it to your needs. We can either offer it free to the agent and the enquirer pays for the text message, or we can charge you the agent for the messages, it's a commercial decision, very much like whether you decide to get a freephone number or not. Similar to telephony, you can pay for premium services like memorable codes and other features which we are adding all the time to give you that edge over your competitors. The system can also be integrated into some estate and letting agency software, making it an extremely simple addition to your take on process. You can even add systems that allow you to send out texts to everyone in your database that suits that new property you've just taken on.
Sign up to Free Instant Property Information
An obvious decision really (or no brainer as one agent that signed up said). Either give us a call, send us an e-mail, send us a text (of course) or create your login on this site and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.