Direct Sales Business Smart Phone App

MyConsultant For Direct Sales Consultants

MyConsultant is the smartphone app created for direct sales consultants.

I just downloaded it and played around a bit. It is fun and has some cool features that apply specifically to direct sales consultants.

Developed by Kevin McKinley for his wife who is a Thirty-One Gifts consultant, it has become a popular tool for consultants in all direct sales companies. Kevin will be the guest on The CashFlowShow – Direct Sales Radio on January 11, 2012 to share about the MyConsultant milage log when we focus on “Direct Sales & The IRS”.

Technology For Direct Sales Consultants

When I was working the field we had software to use at the shows and each order was automatically entered into the program as we took the party orders from the guests at the show.  When ready to submit, the only necessary step was to connect to the internet and push submit.

While many direct sales companies may have software or this type of technology for their consultants to use at their shows, many do not! MyConsultant is a a smart phone application for consultants who either need to go online to enter their orders and do not always have access to wireless at the party or the calculation/entering of the show is the final step in submission so orders need calculated manually at the shows.

Even if your company has great software read below as Kevin has some other ideas on how you can use MyConsultant.

MyConsultant Smart Phone App

This is what Kevin says about this new application for direct sales consultants:

MyConsultant is getting rave reviews from the entire direct sales field. It will help you to keep your attention and focus where it should be, on your customer. Not having to worry about calculating the tax and shipping charges on your orders can relieve stress and make the checkout process that much quicker. It will also help you to give your customer that personal shopper experience

Calculate Orders At Direct Sales Party

Quick Calc is (for now) the main feature in myConsultant. This is where you add up your orders, and Quick Calc will do all the tax and shipping calculations for you. When you enter a tax or shipping percentage or flat rate it will automatically save until you change it. So you don’t have to enter these values every time, making it even quicker and easier to use.

Built into the Quick Calc is also a button that will take you to a website where you can look up the tax rate of any area.

There is also a discount calculator integrated into this feature. The discount calculator is a paid-for feature (a one-time $.99 fee) where you can select which line items you would like discounted, what discount percent, and you can even select to tax your total before or after the discount.

The Vehicle Expense log is another great feature that MyConsultant has to offer. This is also a paid for feature (a one-time $.99 fee). You enter your odometer reading at the start and end of your trip or enter the miles driven. You can also enter a date and description of what you were doing. We have even put in a feature where you can export all the data in your vehicle expense log right into an email that will then open into any spreadsheet program. How great will that be come tax time?

For those of you who like your apps to be “pretty”….we have included 18 backgrounds for you to choose from. This way you can make the app just a little more “yours”!

Direct Sales Business Uses

We know that there are some direct sales companies that have programs available to their consultants to enter orders at a party. And you might think that if you have that, you don’t need myConsultant…. but I think you will still find so many great ways to use this app. Sometimes, you might not need to enter an entire party order. Or you want to be even faster and just get your customers their totals.  This app would be great for that. Another great reason to download this app is that you almost always have your phone with you.

Increase Hostess Outside Orders

What if you run into someone at the store and they want to order something from you. You can just pull your phone right out and give them their total in a matter of seconds.

We heard of another great use of myConsultant on Facebook: a hostess can download the app if they have a smartphone, so that they total up any outside orders they might get with no problems.

MyConsultant has so many great features all ready, but we aren’t even close to done. We have a lot of great features yet to come. We have a myParty feature in the works that will help you to put entire party orders in together; myExpenses, where you can keep track of all your business expenses, plus many, many more.

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