Partner Benefits

Why should you become an Intrcomm Technology Partner today?

1.  Expand your Client Base.  More and more clients are demanding that their web providers place tools in their hands to allow them to make simple website changes themselves.  If you cannot offer this solution, you just might be out of luck!

• Offer your clients a state of the art content management system that is affordable, functional, secure, flexible, and easy to use.
• Pre-defined plugins are used for the most basic content management and site interaction tasks.
• Creation of simple database applications for the web are made easy.  Create your fields with an easy to use interface, place the fields on html templates designed by you for display, and the forms you or your clients will use to update data are automatically created.
• Intrcomm Technology’s team of professionals are behind the scenes and available to all Partners at a discounted rate.  We are your programming team if the need should ever arise, so you may never have to say “no” to a client again.
• Since the SMC uses html templates to control the design of the website, you will also enjoy the unlimited flexibility and control you have in designing each site, while your client benefits from the power of a dynamic website.

2. Increase your Profit Margins.  Traditionally, dynamic sites involve starting from scratch with months of design and programming, and come in at a high cost to the client.  Although the design phase will always remain a constant, the programming requirements can be significantly reduced or eliminated, allowing you to provide increased functionality for less.

• The core content management tools have already been developed, eliminating the need to start from scratch on each dynamic site.  This will allow you to increase your sales by reducing production costs.
• The competition does not have access to the SMC, and may not be able to drastically cut production costs.  The market rate for dynamic sites will be considerably higher than your development costs.  This leaves lots of room for profit while offering the flexibility to reduce your price if necessary to undercut the competition.
• Clients may not initially require a dynamic website, but producing these sites with the SMC can increase your profits as well.  Using the content management tools internally for more efficient updates, allows your existing staff to serve more clients and eliminate bottlenecks in the maintenance process.  Should the client request updating tools down the road, the billable work to get them there has already been completed.

3. Deliver Results Faster.  The process from client acceptance to client sign-off for static website projects is filled with constant delays and inefficiencies.  With the SMC as your site builder, this process can be streamlined assuring sites will be out the door in a timely manner.

• The set-up time for a SMC is a matter of hours, so showing instant results and getting your projects off to a fast start can be assured.
• Well designed sites stick to a consistent motif throughout the website, keeping the layout for each page consistent and changing only the content.  With the SMC, designers simply have to create a few templates and the rest of the project is content entry.
• The major delay in production for most website projects comes in the site content phase.  This not only includes the gathering of the data, but the process to place this data on the site.  The SMC content entry tools are available from the start, allowing the design and content entry phases to overlap and eliminate delays.  The website production process is streamlined when the SMC is involved, allowing different people to simultaneously take on different tasks.
• As another means to reduce project costs, clients often times elect to take on the content entry tasks themselves.  In this scenario, once the client has approved the site design and you have integrated this design into the SMC templates, you can get a sign-off on the project. Your client can continue to add content and make changes but you are no longer tied up in the project and can move on to the next one.

4. Stay under Budget.  Due to the efficiencies created, the SMC allows you to offer dynamic websites to clients who would otherwise be forced to buy a static site.

• Intrcomm Technology’s SMC makes it possible to offer database driven sites to all of your clients. You can build dynamic sites for less than what it would cost to build the equivalent static site.
• The administrative, or core content management tools have already been developed and were designed with flexibility in mind.  As soon as the expense of building an administration system is eliminated, dynamic sites become dramatically more cost-effective.
• Offer services that none of your competitors can afford to match.  When your SMC powered site is competing with a competitor's static HTML site, the decision is made easy for your client.
• Even your low budget clients will see the cost benefits of the SMC solution.  Although the hosting costs are higher for dynamic sites, your clients will see a return on their investment if they average less than one change or addition to their site per month.

5. Dedicated Team of Professionals.  Never worry that your clients are going to leave you for another provider because you do not have the resources to satisfy their every request.  The Intrcomm Technology team is at your disposal behind the scenes when you need them.

• Partners receive a discounted rate on all hours billed by Intrcomm Technology personnel for your clients.  To assure that we stay behind the scenes, you bill your clients, and we bill you.  The Intrcomm staff works for you!
• You have the option to use Intrcomm Technology personnel as much or as little as you choose.  Some will only call on Intrcomm resources for the most complex tasks, while other may use them to implement all pieces of the project.  It’s not uncommon to have a reseller that only handles the sales cycles and leaves the implementation of the entire project to Intrcomm.  The choice is yours!

Still not convinced the SMC solution is right for you and your clients?  Read more about the SMC Features or contact a SMC representative.