When we are using the Investment Dominator Real Estate CRM there are a lot of useful tools to help you mitigate steps in your processes. For instance, when sending out your bulk campaign offer letters you don’t have to use tags, you can use the following Custom Statuses, Custom Document, and a Recurring Task. We also have articles on these individual topics, but for now, let’s cover this. 🙂
Step 1: Understanding the Deal Flow
Before we jump straight into how to manage offer campaign emails it’s important to understand Stage vs Statuses which we have an article about here. This is important to follow the diagrams prepared for this conversation. Now let’s first take a look at the deal flow to help us understand the process.
Starting with our first row you can see the default deal flow setup which takes us through our process without the statuses behind it which can be customized (we will go over this later). It starts from left to right with the last stage being a sold property.
By now you should be familiar with this process, but if not then fear no more let’s break this down even further with the statuses behind each stage.
Step 2: Understanding Stage vs Status
So you can see above just how these stages which are listed in Bold set up a direct path through our statuses so they are all connected steps in the process. We first go into prospects that originally send a Prospect Neutral Letter this then turns into a Mailed Letter 1 before then turning into the Offer Request Stage and becoming Pending Preliminary Research status.
So the way you want to think about this process is we are essentially going from Stage to Stage, but we must pass through the statuses in order to complete each stage. Please keep in mind these are the default statuses and can be customized. So after ‘Pending Preliminary Research’ status is done we are able to then complete the Offer Requests stage to then take us to the Offers Made. This Stage contains multiple statuses depending on what type of agreement you send out. For example, Offer Sent is used if you send out the Offer Package, Options Sent is used if you send out Options, and Blind Offers Sent is used if you send out Blind Offers. If the owner accepts offer or option then this takes you to the Buying Stage. Then as we close on the property we move the record into the ‘Open Escrow Status’ which will allow us to enter the best part of the process.
The Selling Stage then presents us with our final Buying status being moved into the Complete/Ready to Sell status from there we can complete the process and move into the last stage and status which is Sold. Then Hooray we completely walked through the deal process flow and can discuss more custom statuses for all your needs such as multiple Mailed Letter, or multiple Offer Letter Sent. Please continue onto Part 2 for a more detailed explanation of how Custom Statuses Work.