Thursday, September 29, 2016

What Do You Mean, Business Hub?

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When you first make contact with us here at DecoNetwork, you’ll hear something that you probably didn’t expect, and that’s the term “Business Hub”. But what exactly is this? Let’s take a look at a traditional setup of doing business with your customer to find out.

 

What tools do you use to provide a quote for your customer?

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Photoshop, for your mockups
Excel, where you keep all your prices
Word/Accounting Software, to type everything in, add the images and generate a quote
Outlook/Gmail, for sending emails to the customer

That’s four different areas you must visit to get a quote to a client, so imagine how long that’s going to take and the money spent just to create that quote, and if the client turns down the quote, then you’ve lost time, money and a potential client.

Lets say your customer would like some changes to the artwork or would like a few extra products, you’re now back at square one and more time consuming changes are in front of you. You’re inbox is filling up and becoming hard to manage, let alone all the separate files you have for your clients, all the artwork and it’s changes and before you know it you’re spending more time sending and amending quotes and you’re not paying the attention to your business as you would prefer too.

This is where the Business Hub comes into play!

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When you generate a quote with DecoNetwork, everything is at your finger tips in one single window. You will start by opening a blank quote, DecoNetwork will auto-assign it a number, You can then select your customer from your database or quickly enter their data into the quote, once loaded in, their data will appear on screen. You will then be prompted to add a product, when you find the product your customer would like, all the colours and sizes are pulled in for you to select. The pricing is also pulled in and you now have the option to start building the visual. You will open the product in the Online Designer, within the same screen as the quote, where you are prompted to upload your customers artwork. When you have loaded it in, you can resize it, move it around and position it where it needs to be, DecoNetwork will also apply your printing costs as soon as the artwork is loaded up. You haven’t had to cross reference your pricing with your excel price lists.

Once you have done this, you simply save and email it out, but wait… That’s also from the same screen! DecoNetwork will attach the quote to an email and will deliver it to your client… “Attach what?” you ask… a PDF copy of the quote! DecoNetwork delivers again by automatically generating a PDF copy of the quote that looks great and is easy to understand. DecoNetwork will keep a copy of the pdf, all emails sent, a history of changes to the quote, internal and external notes and the customers details and artwork.

Where does it store this info? In the cloud, on our secure servers that are locked down with the latest SSL technology backed up with DDos protection. No more local files on your computer that can be very difficult to manage.

Think of the time and money you could save just by generating quotes with DecoNetwork and the experience from your customers point of view and more importantly, think of the time you will gain for you to concentrate elsewhere in your company. Quoting is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Business Hub. It’s going to streamline your entire process from simple quote building all the way to ordering with your supplier, but we’ll look at that in the next post! 

Below is a preview on how you build quotes from within the Business Hub

To find out how you can work smarter and not harder, contact us at http://www.deconetwork.com/contact

      

 

 



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