We are thrilled to bring you into Sales for the 21st Century! BuildingEase is the first platform in the industry that protects your sales and gives you the tools you need to boost them!
First, the free, end-to-end workflow tool that we provide to owners and their project teams, provides us with data intelligence you just can’t get anywhere else, but more than that – we are there at every step of the way, preventing sales losses at 8 critical moments in the life of a project where your products are dropped! Remember, 40% of specified products are dropped by installation due to cost cutting and unwanted substitutions – not anymore!
Here is a summary of how we support your sales directly, and give you more time for sales by eliminating time wasting work (spreadsheets!)
Time Savers:
- NO MORE updating certification information in your IT systems! Our Data Exchange can automate that for you!
- NO MORE spreadsheets or manual editing of your product data! We can get your data from spreadsheets if you don’t have IT systems but after that it will be fully digitized and then – extra bonus:
- 1-Click Share your product data with anyone: you can port your data out to any other platform or website at any time!
- NO MORE answering a zillion sustainability questions, all in slightly different formats! We have digitized the CMF and Q+A so you only have to answer questions once! Then designers can see what’s been asked and answered, and then UpVote it to show their interest.
- Automated compliance checking: See how your products “rate” against various standards (owner specific, firm specific) rating systems and the CMF without having to do any work (if we are managing your product data). Save tons of hours responding to “compliance” checking spreadsheets!
Sales Support:
- Branded Storefronts: Tell your story, publish case studies and testimonials, share “Matterport-type” showroom or factory tours, host live Q+A sessions and more!
- Marketplace & Global Buyer’s Club: Don’t stop at SPECS!!! Besides losing 40% of what’s spec’d typically – the real pay dirt is SALES. There is no substitute. Instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on “leads” (which aren’t…) get a FREE live-lead dashboard where people are requesting actual bids for sales – and respond to market demand in real time, get competitive analytics and much more! Our Marketplace powers the USGBC CA Rebuild Marketplace!
- Workflow Tool & Catalog: Our catalog is unique to the industry. We do not exclude products that don’t have certifications and we DO include all design information so that designers don’t have to bounce out to see colors, patterns, lines etc – and our catalog and Gallery of Storefronts gives you broader exposure because our platform is used by the largest firms and most influential owners! Everyone claims that – but we aren’t fibbing!
- Innovation Exchange: For manufacturers new to the US market or for startups who want to get to market – this is for you! This is our ‘dating site’ to get exposure, feedback, find pilots, license to existing manufacturers and more.
- Virtual Building Tours: Be part of a virtual (Matterport style) building tour where you can tell your story and highlight how your products contribute to success in Living Buildings, LEED, WELL, and other exemplary projects.
- Unique Community Engagement Programs: From our Innovation Exchange to our DeCon Hackathon and Crowdsource CoLabs, interact with design leaders who are coming together to solve common problems! Coming later this year: NEXUS Virtual Trade Show – unprecedented interaction and programming with detailed designer “journey” tracking you can’t get in real life!
- Innovation Exchange: For manufacturers new to the US market or for startups who want to get to market – this is for you! This is our ‘dating site’ to get exposure, feedback, find pilots, license to existing manufacturers and more.
We continuously improve and add new functions – and people love our platform because of how responsive we are to your needs. Never hesitate to share ideas, feedback or functions that can make your life easier and more successful!
Follow the rest of this guide to learn how to use these functions and also check out our How-To video clips!
