improveit! 360 Selected by Soft-Lite to Grow Sales, Support Dealer Network

Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) August 26, 2010

improveit! 360, the nation’s premier solution provider to the home improvement industry, announced today that Soft-Lite, L.L.C. has selected them as a partner to help continue their growth, support their focus on innovation, and increase communication and collaboration within their dealer network.

Soft-Lite, an Ohio-based custom vinyl window and door manufacturer dedicated to world-class quality and excellence, will be the first company of its kind to substantially raise the level of support to its dealers by subsidizing part of the costs associated with implementing the improveit! 360 web-based total business management system across its community to fully integrate with them and reduce costly network fragmentation. improveit! 360 was selected because of its unmatched ability to help dealers reduce inefficiencies and lower operating costs while driving new business and standardizing the disjointed business processes experienced by the majority of home improvement dealers.

With the improveit! 360 solution, Soft-Lite looks to continue to elevate the satisfaction and performance levels of it dealers, whom they know are an integral part of their success. Soft-Lite also seeks to grow revenues by improving their business development processes and reducing costs associated with managing a network of diverse dealers with varying needs, resources and technology adoption. Further, through the impower! 360 corporate portal provided exclusively as part of the improveit! 360 program, Soft-Lite can control and advance its brand by disseminating marketing materials and sharing important data and information across its community.

“We are very excited that Soft-Lite selected us to increase the collaboration within its community and help them meet their business goals,” says Brian Leader, President and CEO of improveit! Home Remodeling and improveit! 360. “We’re extremely confident that the improveit! 360 total business system combined with the impower! 360 corporate portal will transform the way Soft-Lite works with its dealers and provide resounding value for both entities,” he added.

By utilizing improveit! 360, Soft-Lite dealers can generate and close more leads using the system’s unique embedded closed-loop marketing system that promotes ongoing marketing and automated communications. It ensures that leads are never lost and always in an active marketing and provides consistent, predictable lead flow. Dealers will also be able to access professionally designed marketing templates and materials developed by Soft-Lite for campaigns and communications.

Beyond increasing the dealers’ ability to market more effectively, improveit! 360 will help them automate appointment scheduling, manage complex projects, comply with government regulations like the EPA TSCA lead paint, view all customer interactions from one centralized location, have 100% visibility into their entire operation and make better business decisions using the system’s customizable, real-time dashboards and reports. Dealers can also be more efficient by accessing key information remotely from their smart-phones or other devices with wireless internet access.

“We are truly excited to partner with improveit! 360,” says Roy Anderson, President of Soft-Lite. “Our dealers are great at running their businesses, but we’re confident this program will give them world-class tools to help propel them to greater success. It will increase network collaboration and strengthen our community, provide franchise-like integration and allow us to supply a comprehensive tool that our dealers can readily use to benefit their businesses,” Mr. Anderson added. “Unlike other options on the market, improveit! 360 can integrate our entire community in a way not possible before. It will revolutionize our business and that of our dealers. To date, we have not seen another solution offer the level of support, benefits and functionality that improveit! 360 does. We’re thrilled to be the first to implement it,” Mr. Anderson concludes.

About improveit! 360

Developed by home remodelers for home remodelers, improveit! 360 is a total business management system designed to accelerate growth and improve operational efficiencies. With improveit! 360, remodelers and contractors are able to close more leads while lowering their marketing costs, automate communications, track every customer interaction from one centralized location, and get a 360o view of their operation for better decision-making. Among its many unique features, improveit! 360 is the only application of its kind to feature EPA TSCA/RRP Lead Paint Compliance Management. Built on the force.com platform, the system is highly secure, reliable and scalable. For more information and a free trial, visit http://www.improveit360.com or email info(at)improveit360(dot)com.

About Soft-Lite

Soft-Lite is a vinyl replacement window and door manufacturer headquartered in Streetsboro, Ohio. The company is a five-time winner of the Window and Door Crystal Achievement Award and is also a recipient of the Friedman Corporation Customer Appreciation Award, the Window & Door Top 100 Manufacturers recognition, and the Door and Window "Companies To Watch" recognition. For more information, visit http://www.soft-lite.com.

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