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Survey Company Owners, Now Is Your Chance to Grow

There has never been a more exciting time for using web technology and the power of social media to boost your reputation and online presence.  You now have the ability to handle many of the tasks for marketing, managing and promoting your company, using free tools provided by Land Surveyors United.  Take a look at our suite of tools for you to use to promote and manage your surveying business, online.  We encourage your feedback and look forward to seeing how you use these tools created just for you.

Need a Website?  Use Our Free Website Template

Go to http://template.landsurveyorsunited.com while signed into your Google Account and Customize the template however you like.  Get support through our forum dedicated to helping you customize the template.  Delete the pages you do not need and replace text and images with your own!

Add Your Company to Our Directory

You support us and we promote you, all year around.  For a donation to the network we will promote your company and/or brand in the search engines, helping you show up higher in local search engines, bringing you more business.  

Visit the Global Directory (Beta) here: http://directory.landsurveyorsunited.org

Add Your Company for the Whole Year for a small donation towards development and maintenance here.

Stay Staffed Using Our Surveying Employment Hub

Visit http://employ.landsurveyorsunited.com to find qualified surveyors in search of work and to post available positions at your company.  We also have a dedicated Facebook Page for Surveying Jobs with close to 1000 fans and a twitter account to follow for surveying jobs.

Keep Track of Your Assets and Staff

Using our new Location Based GeoChat feature (on desktop or mobile), you can now stay in constant contact with your crews, sharing location specific information and share data between the office and the field.

Simply head over to our GeoChat (Beta) and give it a whirl!  http://landsurveyorsunited.com/page/location

Survey Company Management Software

Tired of paying for software features you do not use? We are building useful survey company management software as a community, with Agile Latitude.  You can get your free test drive accountand help us beta test the new Agile Latitude platform.

Agile Latitude is a comprehensive end-to-end solution for today’s connected and technology-driven land survey business. Developed to run as a hosted solution, the system can easily adapt to any computer and mobile device, seamlessly bringing together all of your essential project management, time tracking and billing and operational information into a single integrated environment. Due to its modular design, you can deploy the specific workflow components needed and customize them to fit your requirements, easily and without programming. Secure, scalable and designed for continual optimization, Agile Latitude will deliver immediate and long term value, lower costs, increase productivity and reduce human error.

 Test Drive Agile Latitude For Your Business

Modeling and Design: Enables a quick, intuitive and strategic definition of your process.

Workflow Automation: Saves time and resources, improves productivity, cuts cost and delivers ROI.

Quick and Easy Integration: Leverages existing databases, spreadsheets, applications and systems.

Convenient All-In-One Environment: Accessible remotely from anywhere via web browser.

Customizable: Build web-based applications without programming in drag and drop environment.

Real Time Implementation: Instantly turns workflows into live, web-based processes in real-time.

Activity Tracking/Dashboards: Monitor process performance with enterprise-wide visibility.

Notifications: Automatic alerts of process events based on rule changes, exceptions, and escalations.

Rapid Deployment: Hosted service or on-site installation from start-to-finish in days instead of months

If you would like to discuss ways of using these tools for your business, feel free to contact me with any questions or feedback. If you are not the owner of your company, feel free to pass this message onto your boss and encourage them to start building an online presence for their business using the tools crafted by Land Surveyors United. Good Luck out there Surveyors!