the next best thing to being there

is making your customer, partner or employee wish you were there. provide them with an effective, inexpensive way get information about you and they'll want more, and they'll want you and your product.

although personal presentations can be terrific for delivering your message, they are almost always the most expensive. you need cost-effective ways to make your information available, when it's needed, where it's needed. by your customers. by your partners. by your employees.

garbage in, garbage out. the biggest battle is pulling together good information, then organizing it in an easy-to-use manner. we'll help you sift through the mountains of information you've accumulated, then turn it into concise, interesting and enticing material about yourself and your products. along the way, we'll minimize the duplication of effort, the goal being to develop once and distribute across many media—print, cd, intranet, extranet, web, mobile and e-mail.

siemens: from print guides to portals

what started as a small project to publish print sales and training guides for the partner organization of siemens us has grown into a long-term content management relationship. we've developed a number of manuals, road-tested them on recruitment and training tours, and then finally turned them into extranet content with a password-protected url.

along the way, we added a second url to the extranet to offer industry analysts a slightly different view of the same information. last year we added a third url, affording siemens canada a country-specific version of the partner portal. although product information is common to all "portals," the analysts, united states partners and canadian partners each have separate administration functions and entitlement. features include:

• an automated home page with automated news and events feeds
• a personalization window with links and automated login to other portals
• integrated ordering guide and order configuration tools
• support for multiple views of product information (i.e. sales vs. technical)
• a categorized, full-text searchable documentation library

custom extranet implementations

our extranets (aka portals) are built on lotus notes/domino release 5 or version 6 but do not require a notes client license for maintenance. all end-user administrative tasks can be performed through a standard browser. we use a third-party to host—it's all they do and they do it very well. we think you'll like this virtual company approach to collaboration.

web site design

of course, if what you want is a sleek marketing or e-commerce site, we can help you there as well. we'll deploy the people and technology resources to put your best foot forward on the worldwide web, and do it the easiest to maintain way possible.

siemens product sales
& training print guides

siemens product sales guide

siemenspartner.net
siemensconsultants.net
siemenspartner.ca (secure sites)

furman fitness (in beta)

eason, earl web site

green hill (design test)