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Sage Software and Real Estate Promoter Partner to Advance Contact Management and Lead Conversion for Real Estate Professionals
ACT! by Sage Premium for Real Estate (8.0) and Real Estate Promoter Products Enable Turnkey Prospecting-to-Sales Solution for Agents and Brokers
| Source: Sage Software
SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 22, 2007 -- Sage Software today announced a marketing
partnership with Real Estate Promoter, a leader in search engine marketing
technology and lead capturing services, to offer real estate professionals
the ACT! by Sage Premium for Real Estate contact and customer management
solution with Real Estate Promoter's online lead conversion services. The
products, now being offered together as a discounted bundle by Real Estate
Promoter, enable higher volume online lead capturing and efficient sales
opportunity management for real estate agents and brokers.
"Whether in fast or slow markets, real estate agents need easy access to
customer information as well as support to efficiently find leads and turn
them into sales," said Joe Bergera, ACT! senior vice president and general
manager. "The partnership between Sage Software and Real Estate Promoter
brings cost-effective productivity advantages that will help agents and
real estate firms automate sales and marketing processes and accelerate
their sales results."
Real Estate Promoter's search engine marketing and lead capturing services
generate top Website placement and qualified traffic via the top 20 search
portals including Yahoo®, Google™ and MSN®, and are capable of
delivering thousands of highly targeted, early market home buyer and seller
leads for agents. Real Estate Promoter also offers Hybrid Website™
services that allow agents to promote themselves in their local marketplace
and also effectively market their services online. Visitor-to-lead
conversion rates on the Real Estate Promoter Hybrid Websites™ range from
12 to 18 percent, further elevating users' needs for contact and customer
management capabilities.
"Our customers' success hinges on their willingness to stay in constant
contact with the leads they receive while using our services," explained
James Grierson, vice president of business development for e-Harbor Inc.,
parent company of Real Estate Promoter. "Contact and customer management is
crucial for every real estate professional and we recommend ACT! Premium
for Real Estate as the ideal solution for tracking appointments and
managing all elements of the sales process."
Real Estate Promoter is offering tiered discounts on the purchase of ACT!
Premium for Real Estate when purchased with one of its Real Estate Promoter
traffic building services or Hybrid Website™ systems. For details, visit
www.realestatepromoter.com or call (800) 665-7495.
ACT! by Sage
ACT!, first introduced in 1987, is the preferred choice of over 2.5 million
registered users and more than 35,000 corporate customers to organize,
access and manage their critical customer information. ACT! delivers
powerful contact and customer management capabilities with flexible
deployment and customization options to help individuals, selling
professionals and corporate workgroups improve productivity and increase
sales.
ACT! by Sage is part of Sage CRM Solutions, the only family of CRM products
designed specifically for the needs of small and mid-sized businesses that
also includes Sage CRM, SageCRM.com and Sage CRM SalesLogix. For more
details, visit www.sagecrmsolutions.com or call 888-855-5222.
About Real Estate Promoter
e-Harbor Inc., parent company of Real Estate Promoter, is a market leader
in search engine marketing technology and search engine lead capturing
services for multiple industries, bringing top placement and qualified
traffic to its clients via partnerships with the top 20 search portals,
including Yahoo, Google, MSN, and generating thousands of highly targeted,
early market leads for its client base. In business since 1996, e-Harbor,
Inc has serviced over 56,000 clients through its various subsidiaries. Its
primary subsidiaries include Real Estate Promoter, Submit Solution, and
Element Marketing.
About Sage Software
Sage Software supports the needs, challenges, and dreams of more than 2.7
million small and mid-sized business customers in North America through
easy-to-use, scalable and customizable software and services. Our products
support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human
resources, time tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of
the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and
real estate industries. Sage Software is a subsidiary of The Sage Group
plc, a leading international supplier of accounting and business management
software solutions and related products and services for small and
mid-sized businesses. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock
Exchange in 1989 and the Group now has 5.2 million customers and employs
over 13,000 people worldwide. For more information, please visit the Web
site at www.sagesoftware.com/moreinfo or call (866) 308-2378.
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