It's Training Day for Mel!!!
I am getting training for the Designer Back Office area today. Wish me luck today ya'll. Bryan has been working diligently on this system for us. He's added lots of great features that will make the ordering process so very simple. Once my training is complete, the shopping cart on the front end of the main site will no longer be there. Instead, there will be product information pages.
Why no front end shopping cart? Why product information pages instead? Because we support our DESIGNERS. We want our customers to go to our Designers for service. And, because this is such a custom product that requires actually smelling the fragrances that it is important that every customer is assigned to their own personal Independent Scent Designer.
We want only the best for our Designers.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Welcome Barbara Merritt - Founding Designer
Welcome Barbara Merritt to the Formulary family as one of our Founding Designers. I am so glad to have Barbara join us. I think I've met someone that is as excited about mixing and blending the fragrances as I am. LOL Barbara came by the office and picked up her kit last thursday and it was such a pleasure meeting her.
FYI, our Founding Designers will be getting lots of extra goodies with their kits and will be involved in a LOT of new product R&D as we move along. There are already several new lines of products that I want to introduce and am excited to have our Founding Designers in on it all. :-)
FYI, our Founding Designers will be getting lots of extra goodies with their kits and will be involved in a LOT of new product R&D as we move along. There are already several new lines of products that I want to introduce and am excited to have our Founding Designers in on it all. :-)
Friday, June 14, 2013
Consultant Back Office
YAY!!!! Our new consultant back office and affiliate areas are nearly completed.
For those of you who may not know....here's a quick update....
After getting things going and all our products set up in the shopping cart along with the "wholesale" area for our consultants......it became very obvious that the system we originally selected was not going to be workable for use with a Home Party/Direct Sales type of business. So on to search for a better and more efficient software.
After looking everywhere and checking out all the systems I realized that what I needed did not already exist in entirety and that I really needed a custom system to better serve TPF consultants. I was looking for something that would be user friendly not only for our consultants, but also for me and my staff that will be handling order fulfillment.
Thankfully, I went to high school (yes, many many many years ago LOL) with some very smart folks. A very good friend of mine from back "in the day" happens to be brilliant when it comes to writing and customizing software. So to the rescue he came. Bryan Williamson of www.altetudes.com has been working diligently the past several weeks to get our new system up and running. He has put up with me and all my constant questions, tweaks, requests, etc. But in the end, when he is all finished, we are going to have one AWESOME system in place for our consultants.
For those of you who may not know....here's a quick update....
After getting things going and all our products set up in the shopping cart along with the "wholesale" area for our consultants......it became very obvious that the system we originally selected was not going to be workable for use with a Home Party/Direct Sales type of business. So on to search for a better and more efficient software.
After looking everywhere and checking out all the systems I realized that what I needed did not already exist in entirety and that I really needed a custom system to better serve TPF consultants. I was looking for something that would be user friendly not only for our consultants, but also for me and my staff that will be handling order fulfillment.
Thankfully, I went to high school (yes, many many many years ago LOL) with some very smart folks. A very good friend of mine from back "in the day" happens to be brilliant when it comes to writing and customizing software. So to the rescue he came. Bryan Williamson of www.altetudes.com has been working diligently the past several weeks to get our new system up and running. He has put up with me and all my constant questions, tweaks, requests, etc. But in the end, when he is all finished, we are going to have one AWESOME system in place for our consultants.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
A Lot of "Firsts" this week
This week has been amazing so far.....
FIRST VENDOR SHOW:
Over the weekend we went to our first vendor show.....learned a lot.....figured out some new things we want to do to the booth to make it POP more at the next event....met some amazing people.....generated a LOT of interest in our products and biz opp.
FIRST VENDOR SHOW:
Over the weekend we went to our first vendor show.....learned a lot.....figured out some new things we want to do to the booth to make it POP more at the next event....met some amazing people.....generated a LOT of interest in our products and biz opp.
FIRST PROFESSIONAL PICTURES:
And we had our first professional pictures taken of all of our products and kits. That was exciting. It made it all seem so very real.
FIRST OFFICIAL FOUNDING CONSULTANT SIGNED UP:
The most exciting part about this week so far is that we have officially signed up our very first FOUNDING CONSULTANT!!! Yay!!! Erika Hess in Clayton, NC is our first consultant. We have several others submitting applications but Erika's was the first to be completed and turned in. Erika will be getting some really great things included in with her kit just for being the first consultant!!
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