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BUSINESSNEWS Ready when you are Lead generation company Leads 2 Trade is back up and running after temporarily shutting down operations due to Covid-19. » AND THE PROVIDER OF double qualified sales leads in the home improvement sector is generating good volumes of leads for conservatories, conservatory roofs and orangeries, yet there is still a number of Leads 2 Trade members that are not yet back to being fully operational, meaning it’s the perfect time to join the member network. Andy Royle, co-founder and director of Leads 2 Trade said: “Homeowners will have gained a new appreciation of their home during lockdown and will have been sat in their garden wondering about their outside space or looking at their old conservatory roof. “That, combined with a good spell of weather and not being able to go on holiday, is likely to have seen interest levels rise as consumers have money to spend. “Some of our members are not ready to come back yet, while others have reactivated their accounts but are phasing back in so don’t have the resources to go at full tilt just yet. It’s an incredibly buoyant market at the moment and we’re back open and ready when you are.” Despite temporarily closing, Leads 2 Trade were able to help members remotely thanks to its Sales Lead Vault. Originally launched for any overspill of qualified leads, Leads 2 Trade decided to redirect all web forms from its organically ranked sites to it so members could search by postcode or product and pre-pay just £5 for each lead. Andy concluded: “The volume of leads we have been generating for conservatories, conservatory roofs and orangeries back that up, but the biggest void we have is installers to take advantage of this spike and turn them into sales and installations. “If the first week’s volume enquiries we’ve processed are anything to go by we are hoping for a long hot summer as the boom in online interest for conservatories, orangeries, replacement conservatory roofs looks set to continue.” Leads 2 Trade’s double qualified leads are passed onto members of its popular Trusted Local Supplier network. Members can also take advantage of premium lead delivery methods, including pre-qualified hotkey telephone leads and appointment booking service. For more telephone 0800 124 4308 or visit https://leads2trade.co.uk NEW WEBSITE GIVES ‘HEAD START’ TO BUSINESSES » BUSINESS MICROS Group promised a brand new, end to end software solution at the end of lockdown which would give both fabricators and installers an exciting new way of quoting and selling online. It has delivered on that promise with the launch of Business Micros TOUCH, and the website is now live at www.bm-touch.co.uk TOUCH offers fully integrated software options for every single stage of the selling and ordering process – from capturing leads and selling virtually to the homeowner via TOUCH Vendor, to processing orders and pushing them through to production via TOUCH Portal. The new TOUCH website lets fabricators and installers explore the different features of the TOUCH products for themselves and see how the system works for their businesses. They simply click on the relevant section of the website and it opens up to show fabricators how they can streamline their customer ordering process and how installers can generate more sales and enquiries. The website is packed with info on all the clever user-friendly features of the software and reinforces the benefits of having a Business Micros solution which uses the same powerful engine for all of the different processes from manufacture to consumer. It showcases, for example, the user-friendly product configurator within TOUCH Portal which has accurate and realistic product renders for installers to produce their own stylish quotes and the Virtual Home interactive visualiser within TOUCH Vendor which lets homeowner see images of their property from every side and from both inside and out. Fabricators can get in touch with Business Micros direct to get a personalised demo and, from July onwards, installers can download their own versions of TOUCH Vendor via the website on a free trial. Paul Callaghan, Director of Business Micros Group company The Consultancy, who are responsible for the design features in TOUCH and who have produced the new website said: “Visitors to the site will see exactly how much potential the TOUCH products have to transform the way they do business. Companies who get on board with us now will have a huge head start over the competition as the recovery starts to happen.” www.bm-touch.co.uk 68 » AUG 2020 » CLEARVIEW-UK.COM