Posted On - 01/08/2023
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot. Business Pilot users are on average converting 43.9% of leads. This is a 3.3% increase on the already high June figure of 42.5%, and a whopping 26.3% increase on a year ago (July 2022). In February 2022 – 18 months ago – the average conversion rate was 32.8% and it has increased every...
Posted On - 01/08/2023
European software provider, 3E, has launched in the UK fenestration market with support from data specialist, Insight Data. With headquarters in Germany, 3E provides high-performance software solutions to window manufacturers and dealers. Teaming up with Insight Data has equipped 3E to take advantage of real-time prospect data and marketing expertise. The launch included email campaigns to a specific audience within...
Posted On - 18/07/2023
A team from Ireland based aluminium systems company, AMS, visited BM Aluminium’s Tewkesbury HQ recently to see some of the latest LogiKal software programming and validation taking place for products in the AMS database. BM Aluminium started providing LogiKal software to AMS customers in 2008 and AMS made the switch to using LogiKal exclusively for all of its own fabrication...
Posted On - 11/07/2023
Insight Data has delivered ‘exceptional’ results to Direct Trade (Yorkshire) following a telesales campaign in recent months. The operation generated 429 high-quality leads for the manufacturer of PVC-U and aluminium windows and doors. With a deep understanding of the glazing sector and expertise in marketing methods, Insight Data is said to have executed a ‘targeted and personalised’ campaign over the...
Posted On - 28/06/2023
Conservatory roof installation company, Warm Roof Specialists, has said that leads from Leads 2 Trade, are ‘the best they have had’. The company, based near Wigan but covering the whole of the country, has only been working with Leads 2 Trade for four months, but in that time managing director, Nigel Carton, says he has already seen the huge benefit...
Posted On - 21/06/2023
Production Software Technology (PST) has developed vsHome AR, an app that allows installers to share product designs directly to their customer’s phone or tablet, where they can use augmented reality to explore their potential purchase before making a commitment. vsHome AR works as a companion app to vsHome, the company’s sales platform that has been designed for installers to use...
Posted On - 20/06/2023
The Business Micros Group has been announced as a main sponsor for this year’s G-Awards, which return to the Hilton Park Lane, London on Friday 24 November. According to Business Micros, it will be the culmination of a ‘very big year’ for the software group, after a high-profile return to the FIT Show in May and the ongoing roll out...
Posted On - 14/06/2023
Window, door and glass companies are experts in spotting new business opportunities, which can be maximised with the right software, according to Ron Crowl, general manager at Cyncly. Window fabricators are not strangers to advances in technology and machinery, with investment in these areas key to delivering high-end products to discerning customers. According to Ron Crowl, general manager at Cyncly,...
Posted On - 06/06/2023
Latest figures released by Tommy Trinder suggest that aluminium sliders are drawing level with bi-folds for market share; £15million of sliders have been quoted by installers via the firm’s Framepoint app so far this year, compared to £16million of bi-folds. “We know that demand for stylish aluminium sliding doors has soared in recent years, but this latest activity data from...
Posted On - 06/06/2023
Ron Crowl, general manager at software specialist Cyncly, has heralded the FIT Show as a ‘resounding success’. Cyncly is behind a number of software products developed for the window, door and glass industry in the UK, including First Degree Systems, SoftTech, FeneTech, and Contract ERP. “Coming together as Cyncly in September 2022 allowed us to deliver on our global strength,”...
Posted On - 30/05/2023
Andy Royle, MD of Leads 2 Trade, has said that while times are tough, and with the cost-of-living crisis still biting, installers should be seeking booked appointments rather than leads. Installers are reportedly turning to lead generation companies to help them bring in business, but Andy adds they shouldn’t confuse quantity of those leads, with quality. “Installers think that if...
Posted On - 30/05/2023
The FIT Show was a resounding success, according to Ron Crowl, general manager for the Window, Door & Glass vertical at Cyncly, as the software specialist learned about the future growth ambitions of window and door fabricators. Cyncly is the new international company behind a portfolio of software products developed for the window, door and glass industry in the UK....
Posted On - 25/05/2023
Production Software Technoloy is offering installers a unique sales platform with its vsHome software. Described as ‘advanced, yet simple to use’, the sales and surveying software solution has been designed specifically for retailers within the glazing industry, and allows for the design, visualisation, and pricing of a wide range of products such as windows, doors, conservatories, garden rooms and more....
Posted On - 25/05/2023
Business Pilot demonstrated its CRM software, designed to meet the changing demands of window installation companies at FIT Show this week. “We’ve had a busy three days at the FIT Show, listening to businesses discuss the challenges they face and demonstrating how a CRM system like Business Pilot can overcome them,” Business Pilot’s managing director, Elton Boocock, said. “We also...
Posted On - 25/05/2023
AdminBase, the installer management system from Ab Initio, is said to be ‘delighted’ with the response to its latest innovations at the FIT Show, including a Taskboard feature and an upgrade to the My AdminBase Diary app. Rhonda Ridge of AdminBase explained: “We had lots to show visitors at this year’s FIT Show, but as anticipated, our newest launches have...
Posted On - 16/05/2023
The Business Micros Group will be showcasing demos of all its software products, including the new Touch platform at FIT Show. Whether they are a fabricator or an installer, manufacturing and supplying in PVC-U or aluminium, there will be a product on the Business Micros Group stand to help FIT Show visitors win business and work smarter. Using 50-inch screens...
Posted On - 16/05/2023
Finesse Windows has adopted the AdminBase CRM system and has described the software as ‘revolutionary’ for the business. Russell Bridge, managing director of Finesse Windows, explained: “Over the years we have used a few bespoke CRM or process management tools. All have been great initially but the investment to keep on reinventing them or developing them so that they remained...
Posted On - 03/05/2023
‘Makeovers’, where customers receive a render of their new windows and doors super-imposed over an image of their property, are fast becoming a staple part of the quoting process according to latest analysis of quotes prepared by installers on Tommy Trinder’s Framepoint platform. The firm reports that in the first three months of 2023, nearly 11,000 makeovers were prepared for...
Posted On - 03/05/2023
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot: There is a sense that lower sales last month are an indication that the cost-of-living crisis is finally biting. Average window and door sales in April 2023 were down 7%, while leads were down 9%. Things slowed last month but what is clear from figures for 2022, it doesn’t signal the arrival of...
Posted On - 03/05/2023
DW Windows, a 17-year-old family run installation company, has introduced the AdminBase installer management system to streamline the business and ‘improve the customer journey’. “We had a very rudimentary CRM system in place prior to switching to AdminBase,” said Claire Walters of DW Windows. “It wasn’t helping us to meet any of our business objectives. When the organisation was smaller,...
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