Builder Homesite Partners with SalesSimplicity.Net.Business Editors, Building & Construction and Real Estate Writers CHANDLER, Ariz. & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2002 Builder Homesite Will Recommend SalesSimplicity.Net's Sales Automation/CRM Tool to Its 31 Consortium Members SalesSimplicity.Net(R), the leading sales automation Sales Automation - Sales Force Automation , contact management and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. tool for production homebuilders, and Builder Homesite Inc. (BHI BHI Baker Hughes Incorporated BHI Brain Heart Infusion (agar) BHI Better Hearing Institute BHI British Horological Institute (UK) BHI Boots Healthcare International BHI Branch If Higher ), a consortium of 31 of the nation's leading homebuilders, announced a new partnership today in which Builder Homesite will recommend SalesSimplicity.Net as a preferred CRM solution to its consortium members. As part of its mission to offer improved technology and marketing solutions for the new home industry, Builder Homesite will facilitate integration of its software products with SalesSimplicity.Net. Sales Simplicity is a software tool that automates, "calendarizes," and documents the sales and options-selection processes for new homebuyers, builders, sales agents, allied services and financial groups. Using XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , the software package can "tie in" with virtually any back office system, a key technological advantage for any homebuilder. Its customers include Continental Homes; Longford Home Group; Oriole oriole, common name applied to various perching birds of the Old (family Oriolidae) and New (family Icteridae) Worlds. The European orioles are allied to the crows, while the American orioles, of the hangnest group, belong to the blackbird and meadowlark family. Homes; Courtland Homes; Brown Family Communities; Camelot Homes; Burgoon Berger; Hamlet Homes; LifeForms; David Powers David Francis Powers (April 25, 1912 - March 27, 1998) was Special Assistant to President of the United States John F. Kennedy. Powers served as Museum Curator of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum from 1964 until his retirement in May 1994. Homes; Del West and SunCor. "This partnership is not only a dramatic leap forward for the productivity of Builder Homesite members, it is a welcome recognition of Sales Simplicity's product and our recent .Net and Application Streaming Application streaming is a relatively new form of software distribution method using application virtualization. By virtualizing the application and streaming blocks of executable code, it can be run on the client side before it is finished downloading. product development," said Barry Forbes, president of Sales Simplicity Software. "Homebuilders need to differentiate themselves from their competitors not only in terms of the quality of their homes, but in the quality of their service during the sales and closing processes, and that's where SalesSimplicity.Net can really make the difference." "Homebuilders are currently very focused on customer acquisition strategies, but with a keen eye on the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). of their various marketing initiatives," according to Melissa Morman, vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Builder Homesite Inc. "Having a CRM tool such as SalesSimplicity.Net in place allows our builders to gather the necessary data points to make sound business decisions about the distribution of their marketing dollars across both online and traditional mediums. By partnering with key CRM and other software providers in the homebuilding space, we can ensure that the tools fit the builders' needs, both in servicing new homebuyers and in providing the analytics necessary to establish the best and most economical marketing strategies and tactics." About Sales Simplicity Sales Simplicity Software Inc., based in Chandler, is the creator and marketers of SalesSimplicity.Net, the leading sales automation, contact management, and CRM tool for residential homebuilders. SalesSimplicity.Net automates, "calendarizes," and documents the sales and options selection processes for new home buyers, their builders, sales agents, allied services, and financial groups. When a buyer or prospect enters the new home buying process, SalesSimplicity.Net registers, pre-qualifies, tracks and prompts action in the sale and up-fit of a new home. Now, with SalesSimplicity.Net, the new Web-delivered Sales Simplicity service, sales process automation can be accessed entirely over the Web, even with just a dial-up connection. In addition to automation of the sales process, SalesSimplicity.Net offers dynamic live reports on total home price, disposition of deposited funds, new home options transaction history, lot and mortgage selection tracking, demographic & rent vs. buy analysis, and four different security level activity reports (builder, division, sub-division and agent). Reports from SalesSimplicity.Net can be generated and viewed through Crystal Reports(R). Written in Visual Basic and SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , Sales Simplicity uses XML to feed virtually any back-end production and/or accounting system. To increase speed and load times, SalesSimplicity.Net uses Application Streaming to provide high performance, stateless Refers to software that does not keep track of configuration settings, transaction information or any other data for the next session. When a program "does not maintain state" (is stateless) or when the infrastructure of a system prevents a program from maintaining state, it cannot take applications for the Internet. For more information about SalesSimplicity.Net, call 480/892-2500 or visit www.SalesSimplicity.Net. About Builder Homesite Inc. and NewHomeSource.com Founded in Austin in 2000 by a consortium of 31 of the nation's largest homebuilders, Builder Homesite Inc. (BHI) represents over 400,000 new home sales New Home Sales An economic indicator that measures sales of newly built homes. Released by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Census Bureau, it includes both quantity and price statistics. annually. BHI's mission is to offer improved technology and marketing solutions for the new home industry. The first product by Builder Homesite is NewHomeSource.com, a consumer Web site offering the most comprehensive information and selection of new homes available on the Internet. Because of their extensive distribution network, many additional builders are making BHI their entry point into the Internet. By providing data to a single source -- NewHomeSource.com -- builders can not only be listed on that Web site, but also participate in other BHI online partner channels including eBay, MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). HomeAdvisor, newspaper Web sites, realtor Web sites, CitySearch, and Yahoo!. Builders can also participate in new home auction services through the eBay partnership. |
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