As we all gear up for Residential Housing's busiest time of year, we wanted to take a moment to introduce some of Lifetopia's exciting new services and helpful information available now to our college and university clients.
- Making the Move Online: Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiencies by Bringing Housing Services Online with Lifetopia
- Lifetopia Teams with Residential Management Systems
- Bill Schneider Joins Lifetopia as VP of Sales
- Boost Your Income and Reduce Expenses in 2009… Lifetopia Is Here to Help
Residential Housing Services for Web-Savvy Students
New Tools Improve the Lifetopia User Experience:
Fast, social and completely online describes the majority of today's college students. Lifetopia's Web-based roommate and housing system is designed specifically to meet those increasingly sophisticated expectations. To better serve you and your students, we've recently added several new features making our system even more user-friendly.
Students may now use our new Short Message Service (SMS) to send and receive roommateclick.com notifications, messages, profile updates and more, via their cell phones. Lifetopia's SMS messaging service is instantaneous and enables students to respond immediately to roommate requests or to confirm their interest in a desired housing opportunity.
Other new features include:
- Better Communication - Chat, SMS and email are now available for students to better interact online
- SWAP roommates - Allows students to choose a different roommate after campus roommate assignments have been announced
- Mutual Roommate Acceptance - Our new 2-way approval process enables students to mutually accept a roommate offering
- Enhanced Reporting Tool - Enables clients to receive more detailed, in-depth data about student roommate and housing profiles, preferences, inventory, and other valuable tracking options
- Housing Management Systems Integration - Seamless integrations with existing in-house or licensed housing management systems to enhance university services and student satisfaction
- Data Exchange Enhancements - Increased options for data exchange between your existing housing management system and Lifetopia's (i.e. integrated data sharing of student responses to questionnaires, user preferences, etc…)
- Greater Customization Capabilities - Our new platform provides greater ability for colleges and universities to customize the content fields of student questionnaires, online profile templates and more. Every aspect of Lifetopia's platform can be tailored to meet your unique needs.
For more information about these and other Lifetopia Roommate and Housing services for colleges and universities,
please contact us at 646-264-0700 or visit us online at www.lifetopia.com
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Making the Move Online: Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiencies by Bringing Housing Services Online with Lifetopia
Lifetopia's online platform enables colleges and universities to realize immediate and significant savings across every aspect of housing operations and administration. Because Lifetopia requires no client investment in hardware or software, our system essentially pays for itself right out of the gate; providing you with a measurable reduction in costs and overhead.
We realize that every university and college is unique in its administrative program and the community it serves. As a Web-based software provider, Lifetopia offers customized scalable solutions that dynamically boost student housing services and generate proven positive ROI.
With 24-hour hosting and a full service customer service package that includes dedicated IT support, complete integration functionality, customization, and upgrades throughout the life of your contract, Lifetopia Roommates and Housing is the best solution for your residential housing office requirements.
To learn more about Lifetopia Roommate and Housing services contact us at 646-264-0700 or visit us online at www.lifetopia.com
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Access to Lifetopia's Self-Selection Roommate & Housing Technology Just Became Easier!
Lifetopia recently joined forces with Residential Management Systems (RMS) to integrate our self-selection technology platform as a newly available offering within RMS's collegiate housing software systems.Through the agreement, colleges and universities now have the opportunity to enable their students to review and select their own roommates and choose from university-sanctioned housing / Hall options.
Colleges and universities using the newly expanded RMS systems will automatically receive students' self-selection preferences results through seamless integration between Lifetopia and RMS.
"Students want and deserve the ability to select their own roommates and housing options," said Andrew Tanner, VP Sales and Marketing, Residential Management Systems. "By integrating Lifetopia's self-selection technology, every college and university that uses our management system will now have access to a seamless online service that will increase confidence in roommate assignments, reduce paperwork, yield higher occupancy percentages, and bolster overall student satisfaction."
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Bill Schneider Joins Lifetopia
We're very pleased to welcome Bill Schneider to the Lifetopia family. Bill recently joined us as Vice President of Sales and will be working closely with many of our new clients here in the US, as well as developing and implementing the global sales strategy for our network of roommate and housing sites and services worldwide.Prior to joining Lifetopia, Bill served as Executive Vice President, Development and Operations for U.S. neuroSurgical, where he managed and developed the Neuroradiosurgical businesses at NYU Medical Center in New York and Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Before that he held various sales and marketing management positions for technology and medical firms on both coasts of the United States. Bill earned his Bachelors of Science degree from University of Notre Dame and a Master of Science degree from Long Island University in New York.
Bill is located at our New York-based world headquarters. He can be reached by phone at 646-420-5342 or by email at bschneider@lifetopia.com
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Economy Got You Down? Consider Lifetopia for Taking In a Tenant.
If the current economy has you looking for new ways to boost your income and reduce your expenses this year, Lifetopia is here to help.
In addition to providing the very best roommate and housing solutions for universities and colleges, Lifetopia is also helping homeowners throughout the US to increase their monthly income by taking in a tenant. Over the past six months, the number of individuals and families using Lifetopia's roommateclick.com to rent out a room in their home has increased by more than 186 %. And that number has increased by more than 156% over the past year.
Homeowners using roommateclick.com have the ability to create their own rental ad online, including posting photos of their available rooms, their house, yard, specifics about tenant privileges such as use of a garage, washer and dryer, or other amenities. Once the ad is posted, roommateclick.com sends an email alerting the homeowner when a potential tenant expresses interest in renting the room or learning more about it. Roommateclick.com enables homeowners to review detailed information about potential tenants provided an added layer of security screening before scheduling in-person meetings or telephone interviews.
"The current economic crunch has prompted many homeowners to explore new ways to boost their monthly income," explains Lifetopia's Bill Schneider. "More homeowners than ever before are using roommateclick.com to take advantage of the opportunity to bring additional revenue into their household. Lifetopia simplifies the process of bringing homeowners and tenants together for mutually beneficial living arrangements.
Reduce Expenses
For many people currently living on their own, the decision to share their living space and become a roommate presents an ideal way to significantly reduce monthly expenses.
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