NotifyWorks enables users to send automated email reminders through a three-step process. Step one: entering basic client and contact information. Screenshot from notifyworks.com.
If the team at NotifyWorks has its way, cluttered file drawers will no longer be the place that memory of important dates and deadlines goes to die — not if the owners of those file drawers use NotifyWorks first, anyway.
NotifyWorks, which launched today and was created by Des Moines-based team of Rush Nigut, Mike Colwell and Brian Hemesath, is an automated email system that keeps its users and their clients on top of important issues, matters and contracts through a web-based interface. “You provide the who, what and when,” NotifyWorks’ website says, “and we do the rest.”
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“I noticed that time and time again both lawyers and clients would shove contracts and important legal documents into their files, and then they don’t look at them again,” Nigut said on PrairieCast on Aug. 16. “And one of the things that often comes up of course in those contracts are deadlines and renewals and term dates and other types of important deadlines.”
NotifyWorks uses what boils down to a three-step process to help its users keep knowledge of those deadlines, well, alive.
First, users add client information — multiple fields are optional, but only client name, contact name and contact email are required. Next, users add a custom message or choose from a message in NotifyWorks’ library. This step, the company’s website says, “is the heart of NotifyWorks. Messages that users send over and over can be stored as a template and referenced quickly when it is time to create a notification.” Finally, users create a notification by specifying the client, the subject, the nature of the notification and the date/dates on which it should be sent. When those dates roll around, notifications are sent automatically.
Nigut (above, photo from twitter.com) is an attorney, and NotifyWorks was designed with lawyers in mind. But it’s not a product just for lawyers, Nigut said.
“It’s also for other professionals as well – anyone that deals with contracts and important deadlines in their work,” Nigut said, citing insurance, finance and real estate professionals as other potential users of NotifyWorks.
“It’s designed primarily for lawyers right now, but it’s really going to be a product that I think will appeal to many different kinds of professionals.”
An annual subscription to NotifyWorks carries a $499 price tag. Nigut said the payoff of using NotifyWorks is considerable.
“Every lawyer is always searching for the opportunity to provide, you know, better customer service and grow their billable hours,” he said, “and I think our product is one of those that can do that.”
For another look at NotifyWorks, see the promotional video below.
Video from Luminary Creative on Vimeo.
