For Julia Hurley of Just Homes Group in Lenoir City, Tennessee, a difficult business loss turned into a gift of opportunity.
"Last year was tough," Hurley says. "We moved to open a new business center and, in the process, lost all of our data and contact information when switching systems. This was a true blessing in disguise, because when we reached out to Gary Keller and the tech team, I had built-in ideas for fixing issues around contact management.”
Shortly after, Hurley was invited to Austin, Texas, to meet Keller and participate in Labs, where she would help design and refine the Contacts application within Command - the company’s real estate- specific operating system built in-house.
"Since I’ve been utilizing Command, I have a better follow-up rate, better contact tracking management, easier client information gathering and a true understanding of what real efficiency looks like in a system that we own," Hurley says.
Improved Contact Management
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Through Contacts, KW’s agents gain the ability to manage their most important asset – their database. The application’s growing list of capabilities allows them to foster deeper relationships with their sphere
Add/update contacts with ease - Gone are the days of sticky notes or fumbling for a pen on the road. Since Command is fully integrated across the Keller Cloud, agents can add or edit a contact in their database with a simple voice or text command into Kelle - their AI-powered virtual assistant. This simple, yet powerful feature, ensures that important details such as birthdays, professions, social accounts and more never get lost.
"When you spend five hours in your car taking appointments or fielding questions with clients and driving at the same time, it is always a challenge to remember notes, times, dates, et cetera," Hurley says. "Now, I can ask Kelle to make a note in Command, and she does it. I don't have to stop to pull over and record a note."
Organize like never before - With customized tagging, groups and filters, Command makes it easy for agents to organize contacts and pull the right one up at the right time.
"Contacts has the ability to add custom fields, such as favorite sports teams, and classify contacts as specific as a step-grandparent so you always know who is connected to a client," Hurley says. “I have no limit on how I can classify every single contact. I can add limitless relationships. It’s unbelievable.”
Be a neighborhood expert - In a few easy clicks, agents can subscribe contacts in their database to neighborhoods they care about most. From there, Command will generate a personalized landing page filled with real-time market data (branded to the agent) for the contact. When a contact visits the page, Command tracks that interaction to help determine when the contact is more likely and ready to connect about real estate.
The reward is twofold: clients receive hyperlocal information about the neighborhoods they love, and agents are able to have more relevant, human conversations with their database.
Stay connected - The SmartPlans feature in Command automates touches, removing any guesswork about how agents should stay in contact with their database.
"You can set automated call campaigns, and you always know where you are with your people because you get an alert through Kelle to follow up, and it is immediately logged for your desktop and calendar," Hurley says. "You genuinely have no excuse for lack of lead generating now."
For Hurley, Command is more than a product. It is an opportunity for agents to take the reins in an ever-changing business landscape.
"Command isn't costing $2,000 a month, and Keller Williams isn't selling our information to third-party vendors. This company is simply providing us an agent-driven opportunity to run our businesses like businesses and move into the tech age with a firm grasp on functionality and purpose."