As property values at our firm rose from an average of $1 million to $5 million, the demand for high-quality, customized marketing materials grew significantly, increasing the scope and complexity of our design work.
This added pressure started to slow our turnaround time, creating a bottleneck for our marketing team as they managed requests from agents.
My goal was to find a solution that would speed up our process without sacrificing quality, within the next calendar year.
I led an initiative to integrate our custom InDesign templates into Buildout, a web-based commercial real estate marketing platform.
Collaborated with a customer success manager to ensure the templates were impactful and user-friendly.
Implemented a waterfall project management approach, incorporating custom design elements into a template-based tool similar to Canva, enabling agents to self-serve for simpler requests.
Focused on cross-functional collaboration to address both agent and team needs effectively.
Reduced our average turnaround time by 1 day, a 20% improvement in efficiency.
Enabled agents to self-service simpler requests, freeing up the marketing team to focus on more complex, high-value work.