Since LJ Hooker Nerang started using Rex in October 2015, they’ve saved around 4,488 hours in Admin time every year - give or take a week for Christmas. Yep, Office Manager Emily Megraw has crunched the numbers and worked out that just by switching CRMs, they’ve enabled their administrative staff to work far more efficiently.
Emily knows what she’s talking about, and she’s got REB’s 2019 Office Administrator of the Year award to prove it. But how exactly have LJ Hooker Nerang completely freed up two whole full-time admin staff?
For many years, LJ Hooker used an in-house system called E2. “It was developed by IT for real estate… there was a lot of clunkiness about it. It didn’t have intuitive user capability,” Emily said.
So, they started looking at alternatives.
They heard about Rex through the grapevine. A number of other LJ Hooker offices were already using the system and loving it.
Now, LJ Hooker Nerang are such devoted converts that they’ve got rid of practically everything else.
Multiple subscriptions add up, and can put a serious dent in your agency owner’s back pocket.
“Last year was a massive cull, and evaluation of everything that we were doing as a business. Looking at every single subscription that we had and looking to see whether we could actually do without it or could we combine that subscription with another subscription,” Emily says.
“Slowly, slowly, we’ve dropped away certain providers, and now we use Rex a lot more. It’s been a big focus for us to use Rex to its full capacity.”