You're watching Adjustor TV. My name is Rebecca Wheeling. I'm the founder and CEO of Schedulet and you're watching Adjustor TV. OK, one more time. We have to finger. I told you to do the finger. Way to go. My name is Rebecca Wheeling. And I'm the founder and CEO of Schedulet. And you're watching Adjustor TV. In this video, I talk with Reba Wheeling, the founder of Schedulet and the president of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Catastrophe Adjusters. And she explains not only why being more efficient is better for your career, but also how to do it, starting now. This is Adjustor TV. Hi, it's Matt here with AdjustorTV.com. For the best tips and tools for getting on the first call list as an independent Catastrophe Adjuster, subscribe now and hit that bell icon so that you'll never miss an episode. And thanks to Josh from YouTube, who says, excellent video. The tales of my claims are extremely time consuming. Great advice and great customer service skills watching again. Thank you so much for watching Joshua. We are independent adjusters. What does that mean? That means that we're only getting paid when we go to work. In this video, I sit down with Reba Wheeling from Schedulet to talk about how being efficient can help you receive more claims from your deployments and also increase the number of deployments that you get. Here's Reba. My name is Rebecca Wheeling. I'm the founder and CEO of Schedulet. So Schedulet is an automated software program that will receive your claims, scheduled them for you, put in your file notes, and all this is being done while you're out inspecting or writing your estimates. And well, we all want to be on the A list. And for new adjusters that might not know what the A list is, that's whenever the IA firms have you on their first call list, or you're at the top of the roster, and you're one of their go-to people. And you know, you ever notice why the IA firms love to hire husband and wife teams? Yeah, and they get a lot of the bigger claims, and they get the first claims. And they hire, they send them out first, and that's because they're more efficient. So with Schedulet, what I wanted to do is to be able to help all the guys that didn't have a wife or didn't have a personal scheduler to be able to get to the top of the A list or to be able to be on the first call list with every IA firm as soon as possible. Because all they need is the contacts in there and your notes in there. And they need for those homeowners to be able to have those scheduled appointments as fast as possible. And Schedulet's the automated way to be able to get that done now. I mean, I think one of the biggest things in the industry is a brand new adjuster. You think to yourself, oh, I can't afford that. Well, here are the three things that you need to make sure that you're able to afford. You're not going to get to the top of an IA firm roster without Schedulet, OK? So it's $10 a claim. And a lot of the firms you want to talk to them and to be able to see who's paying for it already for you. The second thing is you've got to make sure that you have the right equipment, whether that's your goat, whether that's your cougar paws, a laser tape measure, your camera, any of those things, your right equipment's key. And the third thing is to be able to make sure that you don't have a $300 computer. Don't go cheap on those three things because it's going to make you or break you and you only get one chance in this industry to be able to go out and prove who you are. Otherwise, you're going to be moving firm to firm. So 2019 for our company, we just released a product called Scope It. And we've been working on this for over a year. A group of adjusters have been working with contractors to be able to, instead of us manually writing things out, whenever we're going to scope the losses, then we created a way for that to be automated for the adjusters or for the contractors. And so the thing about this was that on the scheduling side, we identified that about 24% of all claims get reassigned at least one time in that set. Homeowners don't deserve that. So 24% think of that number. And probably half of that is because adjusters leave the storm. They don't even turn in their work product. And so then those homeowners have to be reinpected. I mean, imagine if that was you. That's your mom or dad. And so how do we do that better is by having Scope It. And the firms are now coming on board with that. Your scope notes are automatically uploaded into the claims management system. Your photos are automatically labeled. We're streamlining this process. That came out at the beginning of January at the NACCIC convention. And so now we're going into finishing up and putting the final touches on the beta version of Estimate It. That will take the information from Schedulet, take the information then from Scope It, and then automatically enter your line items for you. It's not an estimating platform, but it allows you to be able to automate, if you're carrying your wants to use A, B, or C, estimating platform, then all we have to do is flip the switch of a button and to be able to determine which one is getting used and what line items get entered for you. I don't want you to be up till 3 o'clock in the morning writing your estimates. I don't want you to miss your kids' dance recital. I want you to be able to spend more time with your family. And then when you're out on storm, I want you to be able to see more claims and help more homeowners. Make more money for yourself as independence. And at the end of the day, then be able to help families get their lives put back together faster. You know what I mean? The biggest thing that you can do is network in this industry. Don't be afraid to talk to people. Own the fact that you don't know what you don't know. I say every single day, I don't know what I don't know. Typically when I'm talking with anybody in the industry, I'm that's been in a lot longer than me, or mentors, even as a business owner. I might always ask them at the end of the meeting, is there anything I should be asking that I don't know to ask? And I mean, I know that that sounds odd, but start asking that to people. And you'll have experience and wisdom that is given to you that you can't buy on the shelf today. The most important networking event for the independent adjusters as the NACA convention, we just finished that. It's always about the, it's in the beginning of January every year. And independent adjusters can go there. And they can interview with usually between 50 to 75 different independent adjusting firms all at the same time. So I'm the new president of this organization. And it's a 43 year old organization. And I love why it was started all those years ago, was just to be able to bring people together for them to be able to learn from each other, for them to be able to utilize their industry experience and help one another grow. And that's still why we do NACA today. Question of the day. Do you think that it's worth it to spend money on a tool that can increase your deployability as well as increase the number of claims that you receive per year? Answer in the comments below. And for much more information about Schedulant and NACA, head on over to adjustretv.com. And if you got value from this video, you can help me create more videos by hitting the round subscribe button. Wondering what to watch next? Check out these videos. And as always, thank you so much for watching and have a great storm.