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Go beyond recommendations. Go beyond installations. If you dare, go beyond training, and add systems developer to your skill set. Get your hands dirty and become the business partner your clients depend on whenever they require a system tweak or new feature.
Learn one program. Dive in deep, and become a Method guru! It's worth your time, since Method apps can be used to solve a vast range of business challenges across your entire client base, regardless of their industry or business systems requirements. Never before has a QuickBooks add-on presented you with such a compelling reason to fall in love with it.
Whether you are an accountant, business consultant or network specialist, your clients ask for advice on which software to use for their business. Each client has varying needs, based on what industry they are in, the size of the company, their technical abilities, and the processes that make them unique. Even when you find a suitable product, you still have to research the software company, the support policies, and the size of the investment to ensure the recommendation is still in line with your client's expectations. This translates to a lot of research into a suitable product, often yielding a different recommendation for each client. For this very reason, many accountants and consultants just choose to not provide recommendations on business software. Method is a welcomed and refreshing solution for accountants and consultants. Since Method apps are being built for most industry segments, you will be able to match the appropriate app to your client. In addition, the customization features available in Method allow it to be tailored differently to each company, based on their unique needs.
Integrate with QuickBooks. Method is designed to integrate with your clients' existing QuickBooks accounting software. This saves your clients from double-entry, costly mistakes, and unnecessary data-entry time. It also saves your clients from having to leave their existing accounting software to learn something new.
Ensure implementation. Ever have a client purchase a 'boxed' product you recommended, and learn later that it was never fully implemented? Of course you have. Method, on the other hand, gives you control over the outcome, since it can be customized, and customized, and customized until your client is happy.
Traditional industry-specific solutions are structured for an industry as a whole, but do not embrace the points of difference that make each company unique. For this reason, even the most researched recommendation of traditional industry-specific software may eventually result in an insufficient match for your client. Your client may discover that an assumed deal-breaking feature does not exist, or that their staff are having too hard a time adjusting to the new processes in the software. They may make these discoveries on their first day, after a week, or sometimes after months of gradual implementation. The worst part is that once these discoveries are made, your client often has to walk away from their investment of time and money since traditional industry-specific software cannot be customized. Method solves this problem. If your client needs a new feature, it can be built. If the staff find a process difficult to use, it can be changed. If the staff are overwhelmed, unnecessary features can be removed. Method ensures that the success of implementation is dependent on your client asking for what they want.
Provide a new value-added service. You know your client best, you know their needs. Since Method is the one application you can recommend to all your clients, it is worth mastering so that you can help them implement it.
With traditional industry-specific software, you are only partly involved in the implementation process. Your involvement may end once the recommendation has been made, or maybe once you help install the software and setup basic options. From that point forward the client typically deals with the technical support department of the software company to answer any additional questions. This is not an ideal process for you or for your client. With Method, we recognize that you know your client best, and encourage you to take your client down the path towards success as far as you can go. It is your choice: you can be involved in the implementation process as little or as much as you desire.
Acquire a new source of recurring revenue. Since Method is the one solution you can recommend to all your clients, you will find it valuable to learn how to customize tables, fields, screens, actions and reports.
All customization is drag and drop, without any coding. This will enable you to offer training and customization services. In addition, a good system is one that is constantly tweaked as business needs evolve, and as companies look to continue streamlining processes to be more efficient. Once your clients realize the power of customization, they will request customization services from you on a regular basis.
Level 1: Recommender
Become a Recommender if you are looking for a low level of involvement in the implementation of a Method app. Simply recommend Method to your clients and our staff will provide them with training and customization services.
- No fee
- No certification
- No listing on methodintegration.com
- Self-service assistance
- Users still sign up and pay us directly for their Method subscription
- Users pay you directly for any value added services you provide
- Method subscription discount available upon proof of Sleeter Network Membership, QuickBooks Pro Advisor or Microsoft Certified Partner - for one Method Company Account only
Level 2: Method Certified Consultant
Become a Certified Consultant if you are looking for an intermediate level of involvement with the implementation process. You will go through a training program, gain certification, as well as receive ongoing training and assistance.
**Coming in January 2009**- Annual Fee - discount available upon proof of Sleeter Network Membership, QuickBooks Pro Advisor or Microsoft Certified Partner
- Certification required
- Includes training materials needed for certification
- Includes weekly webinars specific for certified solution providers
- Includes access to certified solution providers-only forum to get advice from Method reps and other solution providers
- Includes 1 license of method
- Includes free emergency support - this is to be used only when you are at a client site, with something requiring immediate attention - all non-emergency questions need to go to the community forum
- No listing on methodintegration.com
- Users still sign up and pay us directly for their Method subscription
- Users pay you directly for any value added services you provide
Level 3: Method Certified Account Manager (VAR)
Become a Certified Account Manager if you not only want deep involvement in the implementation process, but also want to become a Value Added Reseller. Here you take on the roll as their dedicated 'account manager' and collect all service and subscription fees, as well as provide all training and customization services (other than technical support).
Same as Method Certified Consultant, except:- Get listed on methodintegration.com
- Users sign up and pay directly to you, not us, for their Method subscription
- You will be billed monthly, for all your accounts, at a discounted rate
- You are their account manager - users get all consulting, training and customization directly from you - and only deal with us in cases of emergency technical support
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