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Community Schemes
January 16, 2024
February 22, 2024
WeconnectU is surging ahead in 2024 – don’t get left behind!
At WeconnectU, 2024 started off just the way we like it – with a bang! We officially onboarded our 500th client to our Rental Asset Management Solution, and our 900th client to RedRabbit – our fully integrated Inspections and Maintenance solution. These successes followed closely on the back of some incredible international recognition in 2023, which included our win in the Best Property Management Software (South Africa) category of the highly respected – and extremely competitive – Technology Innovator Awards
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Industry Insight
December 11, 2023
December 11, 2023
Driving Profitability: Unveiling Property Managers' Inherent Value
If you’ve been following our journey for a while now, you’ll know that WeconnectU’s entire reason for existence is solving the four main challenges of property management: compliance, manageability, scalability and profitability. As we head into a new year, most property managers (i.e. Community Managers of HOAs and Bodies Corporate, and Asset Managers managing investors’ rental portfolios), will be turning their attention to profitability. After all, there’s nothing that gets the excitement levels rising quite like the thought of a bumper financial year.
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Industry Insight
December 8, 2023
December 11, 2023
Embracing Customer-Centricity: A guide to organic Business Growth
Today’s business landscape is characterised by unprecedented levels of customer influence. Between online reviews, social media, community groups and word of mouth, businesses can literally live or die based on the opinions of their customers. As a result, more and more organisations – particularly in customer-facing industries like property management – are expanding their previously product/service-centric business models to include a far greater emphasis on customer experience.
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Industry Insight
December 6, 2023
December 11, 2023
Compliance is becoming more manageable for Property Managers
In 2022, we conducted a survey among our clients to identify the most challenging aspects of property management. The results showed that compliance was one of their biggest headaches at the time – a particularly frustrating situation, since compliance’s labour-intensive (and hard-to-manage) activities contribute nothing towards running a profitable business.
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Industry Insight
November 20, 2023
November 20, 2023
Unpacking the Business Growth vs Scaling Conundrum
Growth and scaling are often used interchangeably, but there are some very important differences between the two. Business growth refers to the process of increasing a business’ size, revenue and (typically) market share. Its focus is on attracting more customers, expanding into new markets and increasing sales as a path to greater profitability. The trouble is that growth (without the right foundations) tends to bring a corresponding increase in business costs, which can quickly erode any increase in profits. Scaling, on the other hand, is all about optimising operations to handle increased demand without requiring a significant increase in resources. This is achieved by improving infrastructure and operational efficiencies (often through automation) to deliver more output “bang” for the same input “buck”.
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Industry Insight
November 6, 2023
November 7, 2023
Practical steps to achieve Community Meeting efficiency
This is the third instalment of our Community Meetings article series. Our first article, Tapping the full potential of Community Meetings, covered the many challenges (and enormous workload) Community Managers face when planning, facilitating and concluding meetings. Our second article, How (and why) to create the ultimate community meeting experience, unpacked the importance of community meetings as critical touchpoints for Community Managers to drive community participation and progress. Today, we’ll be taking a more practical angle, examining real-world actions Community Managers can take to unlock the full spectrum of Community Meeting efficiencies and benefits.
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Company News
October 20, 2023
October 20, 2023
WeconnectU receives international recognition
If you’ve been following our journey for a while now, you’ll know that WeconnectU is the only company in South Africa (and, as far as we can tell, the world) to provide custom-built solutions for all three facets of property management (Community Management, Rental Asset Management and Inspections and Maintenance Management). Being in this unique position, and collaborating with almost 1500 clients across our three solutions, is an achievement that fills us with pride on a daily basis. However, that pride has recently received a very humbling boost in the form of recognition from two highly respected international organisations.
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Industry Insight
October 18, 2023
October 18, 2023
Time to get ahead: How to plan for success in 2024
With year-end rapidly approaching, a lot of property management business owners will be doubling down on their involvement in daily activities. For many, this is a necessity driven by increased workloads and exacerbated by tired teams motivated for nothing more than a well-earned holiday. The trouble is, as a business owner, having your nose pressed too firmly to the grindstone often means missing the big picture opportunities that are right in front of you.
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Industry Insight
September 26, 2023
September 26, 2023
The critical difference between Property Management Systems and Solutions
To a lot of people, the difference between a technology system and a technology solution is one of semantics. To us at WeconnectU, it’s a foundational component of our business ethos. You see, back when we worked in the industry ourselves, we used our fair share of technology systems – tools designed to achieve a specific function or set of functions. We quickly came to realise that, while these systems gave us a way to perform workflow-specific activities, they didn’t actually solve any of property management’s core business challenges: Compliancy. Manageability. Scalability. Profitability.
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Industry Insight
September 17, 2023
September 18, 2023
Why regular fee reviews are your ticket to sustainable growth
When was the last time you did a detailed review and adjustment of your management fees? If you’re like most South African property professionals, the answer is probably: “Not for a long time.” In fact, many property management business owners we’ve spoken to say their current fee model is not too different from the one they first started out with. They’re still cutting costs on every level, and offering a host of value-adding freebies. What has quickly become apparent, however, is that the same competitive pricing techniques that were so important when building an initial client base are now effectively strangling these business’ ability to achieve their full potential.

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