Direct sales companies can use the Internet for announcing new products and scheduled events. Standardized product and opportunity presentations can be made. Corporate training can be brought into a distributor s home. Distributors can check on their sales volume status and that of their downline. With the new, push technology available, the company s computer, with the distributors permission, can calculate and report to distributors important sales information about its qualifications and that of its downline without even the distributor having to ask for it.
Distributors can order online and then check on the status of the order and their customers orders.
This reduces both order entry cost and customer service cost. Distributors can even submit new distributor applications over the Internet. In the near future, there will be pin codes that will suffice as a signature. Hot lines and chat rooms over the Internet will allow distributors to get answers to their questions, as well as share their success stories. From the corporate standpoint, the Internet can be interfaced with inventory, order processing and accounting systems.