It’s kvCORE vs Great Agent

Great Agent or kvCore Will Contact You

It’s important to understand if Kunversion or Great Agent is a good fit for your company. For your convenience, one of their software advisors will contact you to answer any questions you may have. They can also provide recommendations on other systems that fit your needs, or help schedule a live video demonstration to see the software in action.

Want to schedule a specific time for your call?

Schedule Time

Over 800 responses were submitted from visitors of Inman, Realty Leadership or Forbes with a production volume in the billions.

Comparing the percentage of real estate professionals who said they would recommend Great Agent compared to kvCore.

The survey asked the participants to share their experiences and perceptions of a variety of platforms. These tools included well known brands such as Kunversion (kvCORE) and Great Agent.

What is kvCORE? Kunversion – as they used to be called – is a lead generation provider that integrates a simple website, CRM, and marketing management into one solution. While it’s unclear why they renamed the company, it’s not uncommon for companies to launch under a new name and try to establish a new brand in the marketplace, while leaving any negative reviews and brand perception in the past. While the name is new, it seems that the fundamental solution from Kunversion is KvCore, although their user-interface has changed some and is slightly more confusing in our opinion.

Their CRM is fairly limited in that you can’t do video text messaging, postcards or mail-outs, and their ability to customize the experience for your home buyers and sellers are slim to none. For example, you can’t change the home search experience for your clients. If you prefer your clients to be able to find properties in a different way than their standard layout, you will probably be struggling to achieve that goal.

kvCORE
(45 reviews)

$ Price Watch Demo

Great Agent
(32 reviews)

$ Price Watch Demo

Overview and Comparison

While some REALTORS® prefer to piece-meal their own solutions together using separate tools, all-in-one solutions are becoming increasingly popular. One of the providers of this type of offering in kvCORE. Their solution is becoming increasingly dated.

Kunversion – as they used to call kvCORE – is a lead generation provider that integrates a simple website, CRM, and marketing management into one solution.

Most platforms were developed before the smartphone age, allowing them to become the devices of choice not only for the real estate professionals but also for home buyers and sellers. Functions such as mass texting, voice drops, and MLS text alerts with pictures are just some of the features that are crucial and yet missing from the major providers.

According to Forbes, open rates on text messages remain at an amazingly high 99%.

Open rates on emails are continuing to drop to an all-time low according to Forbes, whereas open rates on text messages remain at an amazingly high 99%. Over 90% of consumers use their smartphone as a primary way of browsing for homes, and yet the major providers such as kvCORE are still delivering a mobile experience that is significantly inferior to that of modern providers. One provider, Great Agent, developed their platforms after this shift in the consumers’ behavior.

These limitations of KvCORE, Kunversion (KvCore), Curaytor, and Real Geeks might be the main reason that Great Agent is leading the survey of brokers and teams. This result is not only for return on investment, but also lead quality and ease of use, ending as the top all-in-one provider – and earning Great Agent our overall recommendation.

Return on Investment

There’s almost a 400% difference between the most lucrative platform and the worst performing solution.

One of the most important objectives for a real estate professional is to invest in a platform that includes lead generation, and that continues to be achieving a positive Return on their Investment. Because of the importance of this aspect, the survey asked each respondent to share their Return on Investment (ROI) on the platforms they have experience with.

While all of the providers surveyed generally do deliver a positive Return on Investment (ROI), there’s almost a 400% difference between the most lucrative platform (Great Agent) versus the worst performing solution, according to the respondents (Real Geeks).

Given how different these solutions are, it is not surprising that the Return on Investment is also very different. Tools like KvCore don’t include mass texting with pictures of new listings, whereas Great Agent makes texting the main form of communication. Given how consumers respond to texts, it makes sense that more deals are closed with Great Agent.

kvCORE
(45 reviews)

$ Price Watch Demo

Great Agent
(32 reviews)

$ Price Watch Demo

Ease of Use

User experience is what makes agents use a platform or never touch it again. Regardless of the other merits, if something is not convenient to use, agents will not adopt the tool and the investment becomes limited at best. Think of the first iPhone release which turned the smartphone industry around. It wasn’t the fastest, it wasn’t the cheapest, and it wasn’t the most innovative or most customizable. However, it was the most convenient and user-friendly. It simply worked the way people expected it to. Even now, the iPhone industry still has yet to fix some issues. But it still remains the most frequently purchased smartphone on the planet, making billions in sales.

There are many reasons for it, but the main one preventing Apple from being overthrown by another company is its focus on user experience. This was the main reason we selected “Ease of Use” as the second most important category in our survey.

Great Agent received an “excellent” grade, which means that the interface is clean and every element is in its place. Everything is intuitive and so thought-out that you really never wonder how to perform any action.

KvCORE (Kunversion) takes 3rd place. While it’s not as intuitive or fast and doesn’t feature the clean design in Great Agent, it is still very user-friendly and easy to navigate.

Lead Volume

Lead volume, as the name implies, is a quantitative characteristic that represents the total amount of leads obtained, by using a software product without regard to the number of leads converted or the quality of leads. As we are aware, only around 2% of online leads convert. In turn, that necessitates a massive influx of leads to make a profit off of such a dismal percentage. The question is, how can you attract them if all your competition is a couple of clicks away?

A software solution has to deliver a high number of leads to ensure that your 2% still consists of dozens many people. If it’s incapable of doing so, simple economics applies. You can’t have an abnormally huge per-unit markup if you don’t want to let your competitors gain the upper hand.

It’s important to note that lead volume is a metric that needs to be combined with the quality. For example, some providers like kvCORE and Curaytor accept some invalid e-mail addresses such as [email protected] and their use will consequently need a much higher number of leads to get one closing.

Lead Quality

We’ve finally come to the decisive factor that shows the degree to which your leads are interested in your services. In other words, are they ready to buy/sell or are they just browsing around with no desire to purchase? There are two extremes here: people who are waiting for you to follow up on the lead and help them with buying or selling a house, and people who are not remotely interested in buying or selling. There are very few situations where you get to see either of the two. Most often, agents find themselves somewhere in-between.

To test how well these companies can filter real leads from fake ones, we came up with a list of 10 fake emails and 10 phone numbers. We selected 5 websites powered by 5 software providers respectively, and tried to sign up using invalid information. 3 emails and 2 phone numbers were written incorrectly, (e.g. [email protected], 123-456-7890). 7 emails and 8 phone numbers were syntactically correct, (e.g [email protected]) but nonexistent. The results of this experiment can be seen in the table above.

Great Agent turned out to be the only company that declined 100% of the invalid information. The rest of providers didn’t check the sign-up data further than email spell check.

kvCORE
(45 reviews)

$ Price Watch Demo

Great Agent
(32 reviews)

$ Price Watch Demo

Software Features

The indicators we compared and evaluated in the preceding chapters form the basis of the end price to performance ratio. But they won’t give you the full picture. When it comes to software, one feature can make or break it. One product can outperform the others easily if the right tools are offered to the user. One great feature implemented by a competitor can cost you your business. Facebook wasn’t the first social network, but it was the most convenient. PayPal wasn’t the first online payment processor, but it was the most secure. Thanks to these features, those companies excelled in their respective spheres of business. The Realty Leadership research team understands that better than most, so we prepared a comprehensive review of features that every software product carries.

Customer Service

We sent email requests to software platforms, asking them to clarify whether or not we can use their product in Canada, and how much it would cost for a 10-agent brokerage here in the United States. Note that such a request contains all the necessary information for a company to provide a quote on the product, especially if we asked them to give us at least an approximate average figure, if an exact quote is impossible to get.

Our #3 criterion is proactiveness. Some companies don’t seem to understand that clients who are not replying to them are not yet lost. They just might have lost your email, or may have been busy enough to forget about it. A company should want a customer regardless.

Those who responded with a figure and a straight yes/no answer were listed in the “Useful Reply” column. Those who started asking us unnecessary questions and wouldn’t give us a quote right away were listed under “Useless Reply” column. The other two columns represent companies that ignored our requests altogether and companies that followed up with us after they’d sent quotes that we did not reply to.

It is always unprofessional for companies to ignore a potential client. We considered this the #1 criterion for determining superior customer service in our breakdown. However, the results look bleak in this respect – 2 out of 5 companies, which is 40%, didn’t reply at all. In our table, they are represented by the “No Reply” column.

Conclusion

While Great Agent was the clear winner in this survey, kvCORE is taking second place. KvCORE is more expensive when you add their base price to the tools required to perform, and is also somewhat dated and lacking important functionality, such as mass texting. These are clear disadvantages, compared to next-generation products like Great Agent.

While Kunversion (KvCore) is trying to leave past performance issues behind them through the renaming of their company, it seems that real estate professionals have mixed experiences leading to a less-than-ideal return on investment.

Curaytor is trying to improve, but according to this study, they are failing with an average Return on Investment that is less than half of this real estate survey’s winner.

Even worse scores are received by RealGeeks, a platform where this survey’s 800+ respondents are saying it barely pays for its cost. This may be caused by a difficult user experience and a usually low quality of leads.

KvCORE Reviews

Horrible experience! Have received Only One Lead .. It is out of my area of expertise and price range I do not work with. For past 2 months , I receive your daily call emails regarding this one “ Lead”. It is annoying & does not fit with my business model. I find it a waste of time & energy. Negative impression.


I wouldn’t buy this again and I can’t get out of the subscription for 2 more months – UGH!
Review of KvCORE on March 26, on Active Rain.

Others are complaining about their business processes. This particular real estate team leader didn’t like what he received:


This product hindered our business greatly and has us focusing on things we shouldn’t be focusing [on]
Review of KvCORE by John Bauman Destin, FL on February 19, 2018, according to Active Rain.

Great Agent Reviews

In contrast to those reviewing KvCORE, Great Agent’s reviews from broker/owners and team leaders are consistently positive. Here are a couple of examples that we found useful:


I’ve used KvCORE before Great Agent, and my closing rate is almost 3 times better with Great Agent. This is mainly because of the higher lead quality and their much more intuitive user experience.
Review of Great Agent by Donnie Keller, Broker/Owner on January 23, 2018.

Some reviews are from team leaders, who especially praise Great Agent’s customer service and ability to adapt to their teams’ needs:


Great Agent’s customer service is just incredible. I have never had an experience with another company where it’s almost like if they were family.
Review of Great Agent by Katy McBrayer, Team Leader, on February 12, 2018.

kvCORE
(45 reviews)

$ Price Watch Demo

Great Agent
(32 reviews)

$ Price Watch Demo

COMMENTS