Hi everyone,
How does your organization record Capacity Estimates in Tess? I'm having problems figuring out where to store the Capacity Estimates that I do for our $50K+ level suspects/prospects. In an ideal world, I would like to be able to attach the Estimates to accounts and then use it for list pulls.
Note: We have done WealthEngine screenings in the past, and I read through the Forum posts and replies on inputting WE info into Tess, and that isn't what we're looking to do here.
Any ideas?
Genna Davidson, Arena Stage Research Associate (202-600-4028)
Genna,
We did a wealth screening back in 2005 and put that data (a capacity number and a ranking of sorts) into attributes. In 2007 we did another wealth screening as part of a special campaign. At that time we set up a special moves management systems to track everything so I created a custom tab to enter things like "estimated capacity", "affinity" , High/medium/low gift estimates" etc. - basically things that were solicitation related but didn't fit in solicitations.
That campaign is now over so I have modified our custom tab and moved the data from the 2005 wealth screening into it. So now our custom tab contains the special campaign solicitation information plus info from both weath screenings.
The nice thing about the custom tab is that I was able to put in short descriptions about the weath screenings and the dates of the screenings (I also have a help document with more detail). I like to imagine that its 5 years in the future and there is an entirely different staff looking in our database.Dale
Hi Dale,
Thank you for your response to my post. You have some real insight into how to use this aspect of the software. That rocks! I get the general idea of your system, but I'd love to know more detail. Would you be willing to have a brief phone conversation about it? I would jump at the chance to ask you some specific questions and then I can post what I've learned so other might share in that conversation too. Let me know!
Genna