Consultant tools

Replicated Websites

It is very common for a party plan company to offer replicated websites to its consultants.
In contrast to a typical network or marketing company however, a party plan company may not choose to incorporate a customer shopping cart or online consultant enrollment into their consultants’ replicated websites. There are good reasons: 1) Party plans are built on the very social and personal interaction experience at the party event. 2) The products often require and/or are best sold through personal demonstration. 3) Personal involvement and training by the sponsor is preferred and encouraged by offline enrollment.

Today however, the market is changing. There are many more party plan companies, and prospective customers are being introduced to more opportunities and party events. In response, party plan companies are considering more online options. Online party invites combined with virtual parties is an exciting option. Either way, IDSTC can help you choose the most effective strategy for your company and provide the best technology solution. IDSTC can provide these important requirements for your company’s replicated websites:

Integrated online party invites and virtual parties.
Sophisticated e-commerce functionality:
Intuitive online consultant enrollment.
Robust shopping cart functionality.
Customer accounts for repeat shoppers.
Consultant back office access
Graphic design with user friendly navigation
Multi-media support: Flash, video, and audio files.
Integration of existing website design.
Content and copywriting services.
Maintenance and updates.
Hosting in an enterprise-class data center.

Revenue Opportunity:

Replicated websites offer companies an opportunity to generate significant revenue that can be used to pay for operating overhead and IT costs. Many party plan companies charge their consultants a nominal fee (for example, $10 per month) for replicated websites. Consider how helpful the revenue from several thousand consultants paying that fee each month can be in operating your business.

Back Office

Your party plan company is building a sales force and it’s vital to your success to provide information, resources and support to your field. Central to achieving theses objectives - efficiently and effectively - is having a fully functional sales force back office.

IDSTC’s Consultant Back Office empowers your producers in the field.

Communications

Keeping your consultants informed is essential. Important news and announcements are presented to your consultants on the first page of the back office, each time they log in. Your consultants are updated instantly with immediate access to that information. Content and information can be updated and distributed through numerous features in the IDSTC Sales Force Back Office. For example, with the company calendar feature, you can posts meetings, events and conference calls being held throughout the country.

Reporting

Real-time reporting is another key feature that facilitates productivity with the sales force. The system includes a variety of reports that help individual consultants to track their business, such as:

Organization Reports. This report displays the consultant’s downline and shows the hierarchy structure of the organization. The report can also include contact and volume information, rank, or other descriptive details about consultants in the downline.
Party and Sales volume reports. Reports that reflect personal and organizational sales volume that an individual consultant can use to evaluate their progress in the business and other reports that indicate the steps necessary to reach the next promotional level.
Compensation plan reports. The individual consultant can access archived reports for each compensation plan that has been processed. Instant access to these eliminates the need to mail these same reports to the consultants. The information is immediately available in real-time for the consultants when the company releases the compensation plan cycle.

Shopping Cart & Ordering

With e-commerce functionality, the Sales Force Back Office gives consultants the ability to re-order marketing supplies or to order company products at wholesale price levels.

Support

The system also provides consultants the opportunity to gain self-support with online training such as FAQs, which can be updated or populated by the company to address commonly asked questions and concerns.

Resources

In the Forms and Files section of the Sales Force Back Office, companies can upload forms for easy download and printing from the individual consultant’s computer or files that need to be made readily available to the consultant.

Lead Management Systems

Integrating the Sales Force BBS lead management system will dramatically expand the business building functionality of your sites. The Sale Force BBS lets your consultants capture lead information and keep track of their contact information. It can be integrated easily with the replicated websites. When visitors request more information from the consultant’s replicated website, compelling, time-sequenced campaign messages are emailed to the new prospect automatically.

I would like to learn more about the Sales Force BBS - a powerful online marketing and MLM Lead Management system.