Ā Putting the Happy in Happy Grasshopper
There are lots of words we could use to describe Happy Grasshopper customer Craig Schaid–effusive, ebullient, energetic, and oh so many more–but shy and reserved certainly arenāt among them. A favorite āround these parts, Craig was kind enough to sit down and chat with me about Happy Grasshopper and why he thinks itās the greatest thing since the RonCO rotisserie.
Craig Schaid is what you might call a āREALTORās REALTORā. A consummate professional-about-town, heās been a REALTORĀ®Ā for more than 20 years and was recently chosen by Century21 to be their technology ambassador. A real estate professional with a hunger for success and the tools that will get him there, realistically, Craig was motivated to sign up with Happy Grasshopper because it was inexpensive and was so simple he thought, āThere HAS to be something to this!ā
āYou just set it and forget it!ā says Craig of Happy Grasshopper. āItās the simplest thing Iāve found and I love it because it just WORKS.āĀ
Craig, who hails from Alhambra, California, but whoās since relocated to Montgomery, Alabama (and who youād never guess wasnāt a native southāron, based on his easy-going charm and relaxed, languid drawl), has been a Happy Grasshopper customer for just over a year now and says heās just pleased as punch with the service.
āIām inundated day in and day out with super-techy shiny objects with tons of potential,ā he mused. āThe stuff that was getting shoved in my face was painful. PAINFUL! And the problem with almost everything was that it was so darned complicated! The potential was never realized. Aināt nobody got time for that!ā
The thing he likes about Happy Grasshopper is that itās SIMPLE. When he first signed up for the service, he says that he was up and running and off to the races in under 30 minutes. He was psyched that heād finally found something that didnāt require an IT professional to figure out. āI donāt even have to think about it,ā he says. āThe emails go out at just the right interval, clients respond, it keeps me top-of-mind for them. Itās easy peasy and it just WORKS.ā
Then he told me a story that made him (and me!) smile. āI was at a party and ran into a friend of mine whose wife was also a REALTOR. This guy told me that, no matter what he tried, he couldnāt get his wife to sign up for the service because she didnāt know how to use it,ā Craig laughed and said, āMan! Thereās nothing to USE! Iāve been using Happy Grasshopper for about 8 months; there was a customer whose attention Iād been trying to get. He got one of their emails, called me, and had me list his residential home AND two investment homes. And that was 100% a result of Happy Grasshopper.ā
Happy customers, yours and ours. Thatās what Happy Grasshopper is all about.