Partnership Has Its Benefits
See Why Technology Service Providers Offer Financing Proactively Through LEAF
Any finance company is happy to fund transactions. But what about going beyond transactional thinking to help you boost sales, increase conversion rates, and drive bigger deals that close faster?
When you offer financing proactively, you can break through buyer hesitation and build long-term relationships that pay off. But to fully take advantage of this strategy, it takes a true partnership with a team that knows technology, your market environment, your challenges, and your opportunities. The kind of team with the knowledge, tools, and financial products you need to stand out and expand relationships in today’s rapidly changing marketplace.
The kind of team you find at LEAF.
What Makes LEAF Different?
When you work with LEAF, you’re getting more than just transactional financing for the deal of the moment. You’re getting a strategic, long-term partnership that allows you to effectively integrate financing into every stage of the sales cycle. It includes a dedicated account representative, a credit professional focused on you, comprehensive reporting, and a wide array of sales, marketing, and other resources designed from the ground up to help you engage customers across every channel, drive revenues, and expand your market opportunities. And it’s all powered by some of the most advanced technology in the industry.
Financing Products
We bundle it all, so your customers get everything they need to work with their new solution, for one affordable payment each month and customized terms that help them control cash flow. And you get a powerful solution for building bigger, more profitable deals that expand your customer relationships, drive increased revenue to your bottom line, and help lock out competitors.
LEAF offers FMV, $1 out, loans, and other flexible finance options for technology hardware, software, services, and more.
Partnership
Benefits
Program Customization and Management
Finance programs can be fully customized to closely align with your processes, offerings, branding needs, and much more. At LEAF, it’s not our finance program – it’s yours, and we’re here to help build one that’s fully customized for your business and integrated with your products, services, and sales cycles.
LEAF provides more than just off-the-shelf solutions.
Marketing and Sales Support
Whether you choose a LEAF-branded, co-branded, private-label, or white-label finance program, our marketing team is here to help partners stay top of mind with customers and drive sales. Complement your marketing plans with professionally crafted and customized marketing assets, and access the services of one of the industry’s most advanced communications departments.
Below are some examples of the types of assets that we can customize for your specific needs:
Plus, we can help train your sales team to sell more with our financing and drive better results across the entire sales process, from lead to customer to repeat customer.
Integrated Technology Platform
LEAF’s technology platform leverages advanced automation, customizable workflows, tight integration with partner systems, and more to help you win more opportunities and support a more efficient sales cycle. From our powerful, easy-to-use FinanceNOW portal to APIs that tightly integrate with your CRM, ERP, credit platforms, and other systems, our leading technology streamlines the process and gives you more time to focus on building relationships and closing deals.
Expert Insight for an Always Evolving Marketplace
Firmly rooted in delivering flexible finance solutions for a wide variety of industries, LEAF’s team draws on a wealth of experience creating programs, structures, and competitive differentiators that have driven business for technology service providers across decades of market shifts and industry evolution.
Here are some of the people you’ll work with when you work with us:
LEAF Commercial Capital, Inc., a subsidiary of M&T Bank.
Terms and Conditions: All applications are subject to credit approval. LEAF finances equipment for business purposes only and not for personal, family, or household use.
Our leading technology platform streamlines the financing process to save time, deliver better customer experiences, and drive stronger sales.
Integrated Technology
We customize programs to align closely with our partners’ processes, offerings, and branding needs, seamlessly fitting into every stage of the sales cycle. Plus, you get more with our expert training, support, and comprehensive activity and performance reporting.
Customized Programs
We offer flexible financing options for hardware, software, services, and more, bundled into one affordable monthly payment. And by offering them proactively, you get bigger and more profitable sales that help lock out your competitors.
Financial Products
Our marketing team is ready to help technology service providers like you stay top of mind with customers and drive sales assets and sales team training.
Marketing and Sales Support
We closely monitor technology capex trends and draw on a wealth of experience financing technology in a wide variety of industries across decades of market shifts and industry evolution.
Expert Insight
Keep top of mind with your customers with flyers that promote your technology and services.
Custom Flyers
Reach your targeted audiences directly with our email marketing campaigns.
Email Marketing
Close more sales with our customizable landing pages.
Landing Pages
Give your customers quick access to information that motivates them to buy from you.
Infographics
Cover all of your bases with an entire multi-channel campaign to support your ABM strategy.
Multi-channel
Marketing Campaigns
Miles Herman
Chief Executive Officer
Michelle Speranza
EVP, Chief Marketing Officer
John Beard
EVP, Chief Risk Officer
Paul Tyczkowski
SVP, Finance
Sandy Bernardino
SVP, Corporate Operations
Joe Banister
SVP, Sales and Business Development
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Give your customers quick access to information that motivates them to buy from you.
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Custom
Branding
Technology Integration
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At LEAF, you’ll have the ability to customize a solution that works best for your business needs. Then we’ll help you get the most from it with expert training and support, our leading technology platform, and comprehensive activity and performance reporting.
Close more sales with our customizable landing pages.
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Flyer Examples
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Fair Market Value
An FMV, or standard lease, gives
your customers the option to purchase
their technology at fair market value or upgrade for newer technology at the end
of the lease.
$1 Out
With a $1 out, or finance lease, your
customers can purchase their technology
for one dollar at the end of the lease term.
Total Solutions Financing
Partnering with LEAF means you can offer
total solutions financing with access to dedicated finance specialists who guide you and your customers through the entire
process so you can close more sales.
$1 Out
With a $1 out, or finance lease, your
customers can purchase their
technology for one dollar at the end of
the lease term.
Fair Market Value
An FMW, or standard lease, gives
your customers the option to purchase
their technology at fair market value or upgrade for newer technology at the end
of the lease.
Total Solution Financing
Partnering with LEAF means you can offer
total solution financing with access to dedicated finance specialists who guide
you and your customers through the entire
process so you can close more sales.
How Can We Help?
Faster, easier sales. More and bigger opportunities. Expanded relationships with your customers. And an entire team of experts focused on helping you overcome challenges, drive revenues, and move your business forward with some of the industry’s most flexible and powerful finance solutions. To talk about how partnering with LEAF and offering financing solutions at every stage of the sales cycle can help your business reach its goals and stand out in a competitive marketplace, fill out the form below to set up a meeting with Ed Urbanek, LEAF’s technology program manager.
We look forward to connecting with you.
More Businesses Today Are Buying Technology
According to recent market research, technology purchase intent has increased across businesses of all sizes and almost all sectors of technology. In fact, pipeline optimism for technology sellers was recently at its second highest level ever.
That means there’s a lot of opportunity out there for technology service providers like you to sell to them. And with 42% of technology sellers reporting more interest in financing options, offering them proactively from a team that understands the unique needs of your industry could be key to capturing those deals before your competitors.
of technology sellers report more interest in financing options
42%
Ed Urbanek
Program Manager
