MCAA New Member Benefit: Intelligent Leads by CMD Insight

Words: Dan Kamys

MCAA New Member Benefit: Intelligent Leads by CMD Insight

By Tim O’Toole

Members of the Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA) can access CMD Insight at a special discounted rate. Through a partnership with Construction Market Data, MCAA members will receive the CMD Insight package for only $750.00 per year.

THE RIGHT PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES. RIGHT NOW.

Don’t spend your valuable hours searching and researching projects. With Intelligent Leads on the Insight Platform, finding new project opportunities is faster and easier than ever!

Intelligent Leads is an all-new way to uncover your best project opportunities. Flexible search options and easy-to-use filters give you instant access to a database with hundreds of thousands of projects, as well as plans, specifications, key players, contact information — even email addresses. You’ll have everything you need to find, bid, win and keep a steady pipeline of new work.

Add fully-searchable plans and specs and our exclusive Material Demand options, and you’ll be able to fine tune your project search even further and focus your efforts on projects that mean the most to your bottom line. Let Intelligent Leads do the research for you. You have better, more profitable things to do with your time.


FIND WORK FASTER AND EASIER

  • Instantly display relevant projects with the most visual, results-oriented platform available
  • Use saved searches to effortlessly follow projects and project types
  • Switch from project to company view with just one click
  • Download, export and view plans and specs — even on your tablet and mobile device

SET IT – AND FORGET IT

  • Keep up-to-date on project updates with automatic notification tools
  • Get important bid date reminders, personalized to your schedule
  • Track both partner and competitor activity to gain a competitive edge

TAKE IT UP A LEVEL

  • Discover projects based on key words in the documents, using optional fullysearchable plans, specs and schedules
  • Identify and target projects that have the most potential profit for your company, using optional RSMeans-powered Material Demand

WHY CMD?

CMD is the only data provider with the combination of true national U.S. coverage and the strongest Canadian coverage available. We are also the only strategic partner of the AIA, which means we track more private projects from the earliest source of information — owners and architects.

We fully digitize all documents, including plans and specs, giving you access to product need much earlier in the project cycle. From our dedicated source specialists to the latest extraction technologies, CMD uses all possible resources to get you the most accurate, dependable project information available.


UNMATCHED INSIGHT INTO OPPORTUNITY

Intelligent Leads with Material Demand is a unique, entirely new way to bring relevant projects into focus. For the first time ever, you can prioritize your project leads and gain a vantage point of projects with the most potential for your business.

Only Material Demand combines the power of RSMeans cost models with active, detailed project information to show you the value of your materials on a project very early in the life cycle — even before specifications are written. You see the overall project value, as well as the estimated value of your products needed on the project.

A clear view of future project demand and unmatched insight into your company’s best opportunities give you a unique perspective — the perspective you need to plan and execute strategies more effectively than ever.

Learn more and sign up at www.masoncontractors.org/cmd.


Tim O’Toole is the Director of Marketing, Education, and Information Technology for the MCAA. He has a Masters in Business Administration from Webster University and has worked in the masonry industry since 2003.

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