RLC Quicker Dealers: preview release briefing
dmABS 1.6 C "Quicker Dealers" is focused on making setup and marketing quicker and easer for both beginner and advanced dealers.
We're aiming to release Quicker Dealers in early May. Before that happens, we're keen to get some independent feedback from a select and public spirited set of dealers.
What's a Preview release?
At a technical/systems level, the release is working well. But there's still some polishing to do in terms of usability, copywriting and other tweaks. This is the stage where a release really needs outsiders with fresh eyes and minds to give it a good shake and see what falls out!
What is still to come?
The Help copy and documentation is still being worked on, and we're aiming to produce a couple of introductory videos explaining how to get started, and how to use the tracking and analysis tools.
What's this release all about?
Quick, customisable adverts and easily embeddable sales widgets
- Dealer site embeddable resources (e.g. show a set of numbers in a frame in your website)
- Fully embeddable signup in the dealer site
- Flash banners
- Text ads
- Graphic ads
Quicker site creation with customisable resources and wizard
- Set of showcase examples with a button to load them into the wizard
- Real-time preview of selected resources in the wizard
- Easily adaptable to dmABS Adapted or other websites
- Content with ready-tagged links ready within minutes
More wholesaler commission with easy dealer setup
- New dealers can go from signup to setup inside 19 minutes
- Basic setup resources more accessible
- Flow through basic setup no longer requires download of setup guide
- More friendly site, with better assistance
More efficient marketing
- Better tracking for customers who return to the site later after first visit, to purchase
- Use the marketing resources wizard to tag advert links without need for hand-coding
- Support for Campaign throughout the lifecycle
- New reports, including customer revenue to date
What do we want you to do?
Join our Discussion Forum (contact dealersupport@dmclub.net for an invitation). We'll give you a link to the preview when you've registered on the forum.
Please keep it to yourself for now - if you'd like to propose someone else as a preview participant, please let us know.
When you've seen the preview, please go ahead and
- Tell us about any bugs that we might have missed
- Tell us what you find confusing, easy, better or worse than before
- Tell us how you might use the new tools
- Any suggestions for the next release?
What will we do?
Each dealer will be allocated a liaison, who will be prepared to help you with any questions or issues you may have.
What happens at the end of the Preview?
- The Preview domain will be repointed to Live
- We'll implement as many of your suggestions as we can
- We'll release to all dealers
How RLC fits in with the Roadmap
Take a look around the 'Product Discussion' section for an idea of where we're heading next. Below are some indications of where this release fits in with future plans.
Next release Associate Model PLANNED
We will upgrade the wholesale distribution commission model so that dealers can make more money by introducing sub-dealers, and enjoy the benefits of sub-dealers down the whole chain.
This release focuses on preparing the ground for people to rapidly become effective dealers quickly, and thus paves the way for the new dealership model.
dmCalls (total revamp) CANDIDATE
We are aiming to streamline dealer setup partly with a view to rolling out new product lines for our dealer network.
dmPABX (total revamp) CANDIDATE
We are aiming to streamline dealer setup partly with a view to rolling out new product lines for our dealer network.
dmCRM
We are aiming to streamline dealer setup partly with a view to rolling out new product lines for our dealer network.