Enhancing Team, Client, & Vendor Communication

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Hey there, and thanks for joining today.
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On today's quick 10 minute call, we're gonna talk about how you can enhance all of your communication within Style Row.
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So all of your team, client and vendor collaboration and communication in one easy to use platform.
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And so before I go give you a quick little demo, I'd like to showcase two testimonials from design firms that are currently utilizing Style Row.
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And here, Carlos from Rodriguez Studio Architecture New York City has says, style row has made it so all of our project data from design to technical is all in one place. It has made it easier to communicate with our clients, vendors, and team.
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Thank you, Carlos. And then one more from Sheree.
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Sheree is down in, I believe, the Houston area within Texas, and she said, we can't imagine designing our projects without style row.
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This software has reinvented the process of interior design.
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From sourcing product with all the information at hand, creating PowerPoint presentations, budgets, as well as storing all this information with drawings, photos, and plans, style row is invaluable.
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The ease of communication with vendors, the design team, and clients is so easy and custom.
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Thank you, Sharif.
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So let's go through a quick little demo here.
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So here on my account, I'm in my project here.
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We're going to use your project name for a quick little demo.
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And so I've added a section within my project for the entryway here.
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And so I like to quickly show this Quick Add Items feature.
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When you go to Quick Add Items, this will allow you to quickly input what you may be looking for into your project.
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So in this instance, let's find a chandelier for our client's entryway.
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And so when you use the Quick Add items, you can set quantities as well as target buying prices.
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So on your target here, I'm going to say, maybe the chandelier is $5,000 to $7,500.
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And so what the Quick Add item does is it saves a placeholder to your project before you've actually went and sourced the chandelier.
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But what that allows, that allows you to communicate and collaborate amongst your internal team really easily on that sourcing process.
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So what you can do is you can set a status like need to source, which will trigger an email to your team, letting them know that we need to source a chandelier in our project.
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You can also use the communication components here, so the team messaging, we can say hey, let's check out visual comfort.
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Client really loves their vibes.
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And so now you can send messages as well to your team.
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And the best part is all of your communication gets saved on an item-by-item basis, making it really easy to find later on.
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So now let's go and source an actual chandelier for our project.
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And so with Style Row, you can save and add products from anywhere.
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The beauty about it is whatever you source will curate to your own library here.
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And so when I go into my library of chandeliers, it makes it really seamless now to go and search for products that myself or my team has already sourced and we know that we love.
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So for our demo, let's go in, we'll use this one.
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And we'll add this one to the library or to our project.
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Let's give them this option as well.
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And then maybe we'll give them this look too.
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So with Style Row, it makes it really easy to share different selections and different options and makes it really easy to communicate those and share with your clients.
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So here in my project, I've sourced those three items.
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If I wanna go and share those items to my client, I can quickly go into our bulk actions feature which will allow you to share multiple items at a time to the client portal.
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And so our client portal on Style Row, I think is really gonna be a game-changer.
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So your clients are gonna be able to access your selections on their cell phones, their iPads.
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We make it really easy.
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It's a beautiful platform.
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And so your client's only gonna have to type in their first name.
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They're not gonna have to set up an account.
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They're not gonna have to remember a password.
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And now they're gonna have a branded portal with all of your important project documents, selections.
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and this will allow them here within our entryway now to provide feedback on these options.
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And so within Style Row you have the ability to provide feedback with a thumbs up, a thumbs down, and then your clients will also have the ability to communicate on items too.
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So it becomes a really easy to use platform for your client to provide all of their feedback on product selections, and anytime your client provides feedback, you and your team are gonna receive an email notification in real time to update you to let you know what your client has commented or set on that item. So let's go back into the project.
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We can go and check out our lighting selections here again.
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And so now within the client view, we'll have a notification that the client had loved this one. Great. I can add it to the invoice.
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And you can also respond back too.
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So super seamless communication.
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This will also alert your client that you have sent them a note too.
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So your client loved it, and now let's say we're ready to go and purchase that item.
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Within StyleRow, you're also going to have a vendor view.
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And so within the vendor view, this is where you can input your vendor contact information and all of the important details you're going to need here to create a purchase order that you can now go and share with your vendor reps.
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So within here, I can go to add to PO.
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You can select whichever vendor you'd like.
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Here we'll go with there.
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And so when you're looking to create a purchase order, you can set your addresses at the beginning of the project, but for our quick demo here, let's just take a quick look at what a purchase order can now look like for your vendor reps.
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And so this is going to be branded with your logo.
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It'll have all of your company's information and just a really super seamless way to now download this and share it with your vendor rep.
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One tip I do have that some firms like is they can create a section in the project called vendor information.
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And you can put vendor information and share it through the portal that way into a section or a folder for your vendors.
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Also, you could create a new project for specific for the vendor, and you can use that portal for sharing important documents with your vendor reps too.
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So, it's a really easy to use platform, not only for your team, but also for client communication and creating all the items you would need to share with your vendors.
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If you do wanna create a schedule for sharing information, Style Row also makes that super seamless with our export into Excel.
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So let's just say, for example, we wanna create a schedule of all of the approved lighting.
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I can go to approved, I can go to lighting, and then we can export just those items.
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So let's see here, go into the lighting, and now we can create a lighting schedule that we could share with a contractor, an electrician, you know, whomever it may be.
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So, with just a couple of clicks here, making schedules to share is super seamless as well too.
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So, all of the information and the work that you and your team had already previously completed will now populate into this spreadsheet that can be shared with your contractors.
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Well, thanks for the time today.
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I hope you learned something.
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If you have questions, feel free to shoot it to tyler at styleroad.com.
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We are also going to be releasing some beta features.
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So if anyone's interested in seeing a client dashboard that's more one to many rather than a private dashboard, so you could almost think of it like an influencer portal.
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We have that coming soon.
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If you want to get on the beta list, shoot me an email at tyler at stylerow.com.
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And we are also working on project templates and duplication.
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So let me know if you want to get on the beta list for these tools, would love to have you test them out and share your feedback as we continue building software here.
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Thanks again for your time.
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Hope you guys all have a great day.
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Take care.