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``American Home Guides'' - ``Be Home Wise'' Partnership Brings Internet Lead Tracking to Homebuilders.


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McLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2003

The Number One New Home Listing Site Now Offers Sophisticated Lead

Tracking, Lead Scoring, and Lead Management

Be Home Wise, the homebuilding industry's only prospect manager application that automates lead tracking across multiple new home web listing sites, today announced an exclusive partnership with American Home For the American mortgage lender, see .
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Builders using Be Home Wise and American Home Guides can now receive highly detailed profiles of new homebuyers who requested contact from builders listing their properties on www.AmericanHomeGuides.com.

Currently, many builders have no way to gauge the quality of prospective buyers who contact them through the web. Now, through Be Home Wise's single desktop tool, builders can qualify and score web leads based on detailed customer registration data.

Dozens of homebuilders--including many of the nation's largest, such as Beazer, DR Horton, Engle Homes, and Ryland Homes--have embraced the Be Home Wise prospect and lead manager. These builders use Be Home Wise today to track and manage new home sales New Home Sales

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 leads from multiple listing sources and significantly increase their lead-to-sales conversions.

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) over 70% of all new homebuyers use the web in their search for a new home; these buyers are historically twice as likely as "walk-ins" to purchase a new home.

"Until now, qualifying new home buyer leads has been a real challenge, because of the lack of data," said Robb Cohen cohen
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, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Be Home Wise. "Without a qualification process, builders could easily pour as much time and energy into a non-lead / window-shopper as they would a hot prospect who has loan approval and is ready to buy. This new partnership provides a distinct competitive advantage to the common customers of Be Home Wise and American Home Guides."

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, President of American Home Guides. "With this Be Home Wise partnership, our builders can now track and score our leads, and see the clear advantage of listing with American Home Guides, to say nothing of how much easier it is for them to manage their leads and match their follow-up response to the quality of the lead."

Be Home Wise offers two solutions: E-Leads(TM) and E-Leads Enterprise. They can be used separately or linked together for seamless end-to-end tracking of the web lead, walk-in, and lead-to-sales conversion. Through a single desktop tool, E-Leads manages all sales leads A sales lead is the identity of a person or entity potentially interested in purchasing a product or service, and represents the first stage of a sales process. The lead may have a corporation or business associated with the person(s).  that come in from multiple new home web listing sites. After qualifying and scoring web leads based on detailed customer registration data, E-Leads links online registrations directly to the builder's lead tracking system. E-Leads Enterprise manages prospect qualification, sales, automated permission marketing and follow-up. It provides accurate data that allows continuous evaluation of sales agents' effectiveness, as it monitors prospects, traffic, and Realtors across multiple new home communities through a single desktop "dashboard." E-Leads Enterprise also facilitates remote management of communities and sales agents through the web, permits 24/7 access to critical data, and produces real-time reports, so users can evaluate a wide array of performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1].  over any span of time.

About American Home Guides

Found at www.AmericanHomeGuides.com, American Home Guides delivers more new homebuyers to its clients than any other site on the Internet. Each month, this online real estate portal connects over 6 million home shoppers to thousands of new home communities through out the country. American Home Guides generates over 1 million sales leads per year through easy-to-use directories and a wide variety of lifestyle search categories. For more information about American Home Guides, visit www.AmericanHomeGuides.com, call 954-964-3717, or email info@AmericanHomeGuides.com.

About Be Home Wise

Be Home Wise is the nation's leading provider of sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation.  automation and sales lead tracking solutions. Founded and developed by new home sales process expert Robb Cohen, Be Home Wise offers web-deployed prospect management solutions for converting prospective new home buyers into sales, wherever that prospect enters the new home viewing process, as a walk-in, as web site visitors, or through real estate agents. Today, Be Home Wise is used by dozens of the nation's largest homebuilders including Beazer Homes (BZH-NYSE), Engle Homes (TOUS-NASDAQ), Ryland Homes Ryland Homes is the United States' 11th-largest developer and home-builder. The builder, based in Calabasas, California, has built over 250,000 homes across the United States since its inception, focusing primarily on first-time homebuyers and first- and second-time moveup buyers.  (RYL-NYSE) and DR Horton (DHI-NYSE), many of whom have gained their competitive advantage by being "early adopters" of cutting-edge, process-driven sales automation Sales Automation - Sales Force Automation  technology like that offered by Be Home Wise. Learn more about Be Home Wise by visiting www.BeHomeWise.com; or call 866-246-6399 (866-BHOMEWZ).
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