Does your business sells its products or services through dealers, agents, or reps? If so, you are already very familiar with the challenge of providing your sales channel with up-to-date product information. There are so many possible points of error in the process that you can never be sure what will actually appear in their marketing materials. In fact, it can be so frustrating and expensive that many companies just give up. They end up not even sending out product data. Instead they just provide spec sheets or catalogs and let their sales channel photocopy what they need.
Now with Catalog-on-Demand, the entire process of sharing your data for purpose of custom publishing has become as easy as a couple of mouse clicks. In fact, it works the same way as “friending” someone in Facebook. We call it Connect2Publish.
If another business wants to be able to use your product data in their publications, they simply look for your profile in the Connect2Publish directory. Then they click the “connect” link. You will instantly receive an email notification letting you know that a particular business has requested to connect with you. This means they are requesting permission to use your data in their custom brochures and flyers. You can accept or reject the connection. That’s it! If you accept, they can immediately start using your data in their custom publications. If you reject, then they cannot use your data. It is that simple.
For more information, just click on the Help menu. You’ll see headings for Requesting a Connection and Approving a Connection. Please let us know if you have any questions or problems!
Tags: agent, Connect2Publish, dealer, sales channel, share data