Partners
- Doc Meister Business Partners start in one of 3
categories:
- 1. Reseller If you or your firm is in
the business of reselling software, you're probably looking for ways to enhance
your offerings to include web services. Doc Meister is the right choice if
you're looking for:
- A learning curve for your sales force that
makes them ready to compel orders in 2 hours.
- An easy ancillary sale to your current
offerings. Doc Meister is applicable to anyone wishing to put planning
documents online to reap the benefits of collaboration, that is, just about
every one of your customers.
- A quick sale since subscription pricing is
within almost everyone's immediate signature authority.
- A way out of collecting money. Doc Meister does
that for you.
Would you like a sale that keeps paying
every month?
- 2. Software Integrator - One advantage of a
web service is how easily it integrates with other software. If you need to
provide online documents in a collaborative process as part of your
application, let us show you how that can be a component we can provide faster,
easier, and cheaper than doing it yourself.
- 3. Value Added Reseller Whereas Doc
Meister is a very effective tool to manage online documents, it requires
someone to manage the collaborative process, someone to review submittals and
keep the process on track. Some Doc Meister customers are happy to do that for
themselves. Some look to consultants, particularly if they want additional
support services such as:
- Professional writers who can produce clear,
informative document elements.
- Training organizations who can show customers
how to leverage a new process, collaboration across the internet.
- Translators who can produce document elements
in foreign languages.
This is where a Value Added Reseller comes in,
typically with a proposal to your client that includes Doc Meister and the
services to produce a complete service package. Usually, this is priced at many
times the cost of Doc Meister alone. And this is the best part - we become your
collection agent, rolling your fee into the subscription price and making your
past due collection problems a thing of the past.
If you are a Doc Meister trail blazer,
we invite you to join our Business Partners. We are committed to helping
uncover new Doc Meister applications in areas that are profitable for our
Business Partners.
The process begins with an
application form you use to introduce yourself and
your plans. You are assigned to a Partner Advocate who responds by either
approving your application or suggesting ways to improve your value
proposition.
Once onboard, we assign you a RefCode that we use to track
your commissions. Whenever a Doc Meister customer first signs up, they can
enter a RefCode as shown to the right. This identifies them as your
customer.
As a Business Partner, you are also
assigned an account on our members-only Business Portal section. With your
RefCode and a password, you will see a page like the one below showing your
sales commissions, as well as a place to set your prices for Help
Meister sales.
Besides a competitive commission
structure, we can provide the following to help build your Doc Meister
community:
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- Custom website development addressing your
specialized community with a URL like www.DocMeister.com/MySpecialty. This may
include focused content you provide and signup forms automatically channeling
into your commission structure.
- Development of custom demos structured like
our baseline demo, but focused on your specialized Doc Meister application area
and with the slides linking to your signup form.
- Co-development of marketing collateral like
Powerpoint slides.
- Published authors ready to help you produce
newsworthy articles for your community's trade magazines.
- FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
- What are the commission
rates?
- Can I have people I train work at
this with me?
- How often can I change my
prices?
- What are the commission
rates?
- These are negotiated person-to-person and depend on
factors like how well matched your community is to Doc Meister, how much you
will do to make things happen, what you plan to charge, etc. We also typically
give more of a commission on the signup fee for resellers and consultants since
that is where you often make your most important contribution. Such startup fee
commissions can range from 20% to 50% with monthly subscription commissions
around 10%.
Value Added Resellers set their own startup and monthly
commission rates. Part-time Project Managers (with experience) can charge
several thousand dollars per month to develop and maintain the planning
document online, for example, and we may retain $50/mo to deliver Doc Meister
and to collect and pass on their fee automatically.
- Can I have people I train
work at this with me?
- Yes. And we can negotiate a separate RefCode for
each person you bring aboard such that you share in their commission structure.
If John Smith (RefCode=JS), for example, brings Linda Lewis aboard, her RefCode
would be JS-LL. Each time a sale goes through for RefCode JS-LL, Linda Lewis
gets her commission and so does John Smith. Such second-level commissions (to
John Smith) are typically 2% to 10%.
This borrows concepts from
multilevel marketing, but remember a major difference. Whereas most multilevel
marketing programs minimize the importance of the product being sold (often
just household commodities) relative to their compensation formulas, we look
first at the product. Our business model is not based on soap suds it is
built on Doc Meister's rock-solid, proprietary value proposition and your
specialized contribution.
- How often can I change my
prices?
- As often as you wish, every sale if you wish. If
you prefer to walk your customers through the signup process, for example, you
can have a price waiting for them that reflects your services to that
particular customer and their payment expectations.
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