By Paige Tepping
RISMEDIA, Oct. 7, 2008-“The real estate market has been and always will be very competitive when it comes to customers and agents, so it is crucial to always stay ahead of everything,” says Nansi Essalou, director of staffing for ZipRealty. “When it comes to technology, we need to make sure we are on top of our game. AlignMark’s iNTELAGENT allows us to manage our recruiting efforts and puts us ahead of the competition in our marketplace.”
Essalou and her team have been using iNTELAGENT for about a year, and in that short time, the program has given ZipRealty the ability to streamline its recruiting process as well as make it more efficient for everyone involved. What’s more, the platform’s simple use has made it easy to get staffing managers on board, especially when they see how it can help them increase their efficiency. iNTELAGENT has become a tool that ZipRealty’s staffing managers put to good use on a daily basis.
“The program has afforded us a lot more accountability within the recruiting process as it puts everything into perspective,” says Essalou.
The program tracks follow-up calls, prospecting and interviews, as well as provides staffing managers with a forum for prospect organization. According to Essalou, implementing iNTELAGENT into ZipRealty’s daily business model has helped streamline the recruiting process and has brought awareness to recruiting and conversion milestones, helping to add more efficiency to the process.
The value proposition that ZipRealty offers its customers allows them to remain competitive within their marketplace, and the introduction of iNTELAGENT has supported the value their customers receive.
“iNTELAGENT is a program that is built specifically for the real estate industry, so its features are geared toward the industry as a whole,” says Essalou. In addition to the core features that the program offers, ZipRealty has the ability to customize its own features that are necessary for their company needs.
“The drip campaign feature allows us to work with the marketing team to create different campaigns to send to prospective agents and talk about our value proposition and competitive edge,” says Essalou. The company has also created a milestone-tracking feature used to keep the prospecting process on track. “Our milestone-tracking features are custom built for our company and are used to track prospecting, interviews, offers, hiring-all the aspects that make up the recruiting process.”
In addition to the milestone-tracking feature that ZipRealty created to round out their program, Essalou and her team have put together daily, weekly and monthly reports.
“The focus is not to go overboard with these reports,” says Essalou. “The goal of these reports is to bring more visibility to what our recruiters are doing and to help them manage their daily and monthly activities so that they are being as effective as possible and achieving their hiring targets.”
As the real estate industry becomes more dependent on technology, it is important for companies to step back and focus on places where technology can help them gain a competitive advantage. “iNTELAGENT is worth any real estate company’s time to at least explore its benefits and how it can fit your specific needs,” concludes Essalou.
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