Business Strategies

To enable a new era for the property market, connectivity needs to become a priority for estate agents looking to take their business to the next level and provide an even better service to their customers. We will be running meetings with the Coadjute team across various dates in January 2022, where you can find out more about our new features within Openview.

Tech, as it has been shown more than ever during the pandemic, can be a wonderful thing – bringing people closer together, providing entertainment, making life more convenient, saving lives and keeping the country running during its biggest health crisis in a century. But tech solutions on their own aren’t always the answer – it needs to be the right tech, utilised in the correct way to really answer a need or desire. And it needs to evolve the market rather than attempting to disturb or disrupt it, as some PropTechs do. We often hear from agents that they are faced with too many PropTech solutions, with PropTech that is answering a question that no-one was asking. However, getting the right tech in place can help to transform, grow and enhance an agency business.The big question is – how do you go about choosing the right products and services? Here, …

Manage. Engage. Automate. This blog is the second in a series of three blog posts exploring the Openview ecosystem. If you missed our first blog exploring how Openview can help you manage your business, please click here to read it. In this blog, we are going to be looking closer at the engage side to Openview. How can Openview assist your business in engaging with clients, colleagues and partners? How can we enhance your communications through our innovative solutions? In today’s current market, it’s quite clear how important communicating with every stakeholder of the business is, that’s why engagement is a crucial element in our ecosystem. To begin with, the engage part of our Openview ecosystem comes in three distinctive components, Openview Assist, Openview Connect and Openview Services. Openview Assist has been designed to look directly at your business; we’ll conduct a consultancy on your business looking at the four …

Whether it’s your landlords, tenants, contractors or vendors, making them value your business is crucial to not just retain your business but enhance the reputation of your brand. Transparency The first thing you should consider is your communication between parties. Think about launching a portal where all business parties can communicate in one place. This is all possible with Openview. Compliance With over 150 lettings laws, letting your landlord know you’re compliant is key to maintaining a good relationship. Earn a qualification through ARLA or NAEA to showcase your professionalism in the industry or keep up to date with all compliance using our e-guides, available on our Openview Enterprise Facebook Group. Landlord Seminars Share your knowledge as a letting agent at your very own business seminar. This will give you a chance to stand out against any competition in the market whilst network with current or potential landlords. Click here …

What we want to do is try to give you a flavour of the kind of services we provide, to hopefully assist you in the going through change in your business. Something that is personal, getting fit, losing weight is often perceived as very positive but the minute this is mentioned in relation to business it becomes hugely negative. We’ve done consultancy in over 15,000 different companies. During that time we’ve found out that there’s a great variety of agents. Let me give you an example, at the moment the fee ban is coming in and we’re getting calls today from agents saying, “What can we do about the fee ban?”. On the other side of the coin we had agents a year ago contacting us and saying “What can we do about fee ban?” and we had more agents who on the day the fee ban was introduced in …