Your clients are demanding more from their websites every day. They don t want brochure-ware anymore, they want online businesses.

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1 Your clients are demanding more from their websites every day. They don t want brochure-ware anymore, they want online businesses. Business Catalyst is the all-in-one platform built for designers, empowering you to easily deliver true online businesses. All with less stress and no programming, using your existing skills and tools like Dreamweaver. The Designer Success Program gives you the tools, training and support you need to take advantage of Business Catalyst so that you can earn higher profits and create greater value.

2 Why Designer Success? 5 Reasons you should get involved Dominate the Competition We ll show you the tools you need to charge less than your competitors, earn more than your competitors, and deliver more than they can. Our products cut out the need for custom programming, while giving you access to a complete suite of powerful business tools that is unmatched in breadth and functionality. Slash Your Site Development Time Implementing and testing custom programming is the biggest hold up when building a site. We ll teach you how you can avoid this, slashing your development time significantly. Command Higher Profits We ll show you how you can sell Online Businesses, Not Websites, and we ll teach you how to build them without a programmer. That gives you the power to command a higher profit margin, from all of your projects. Take Full Creative Control Many systems out there leave you worried that some parts of your site will look like they fell out of a cookie-cutter. Not with us! We ll show you the tool built for designers, that allows you to fully customize the look and feel of even the most advanced features. Your Clients Will Thank You! Clients love the business building power of Business Catalyst. With all the tools they need for success at their fingertips they ll be on track for true, lasting online success - thanks to you! Meet a Designer Success Graduate... Let s go through a hypothetical conservative case study of a designer success graduate, Jack. Jack is a graphic designer who designs for print and for the web. On top of his other activities, assume he only creates one site a month, takes a few days to build it and then charges $2,500 + hosting fees. $40, $30, Selling 1 Full Solution a Month Revenue $80, $60, $40, Selling 2 Full Solutions a Month Revenue This is only a conservative case study - many graduates charge $5,000 to $10,000 plus hosting fees to deliver their clients true Online Businesses, Not Websites in just hours rather than weeks! $20, $20, Jack s earnings (with commissions) from selling Business Catalyst over the next 3 years. What if he spent a little more time and built two sites a month instead of just one - he could be earning a lot more. Now, If Jack simply stops selling Business Catalyst he still receives ongoing commissions. In the second case, this is $6000 in commission every year!

3 What Is The Designer Success Program? The Designer Success Program gives you the tools, training and support you need to take advantage of Business Catalyst so that you can earn higher profits and drive for greater success. When you join the Designer Success program you ll receive all the technology, training and support you need to succeed. The Designer Success Program includes: In-depth Technical Training Our technical training course has been designed and refined to get web designers started building sites with Business Catalyst quickly and without stress. We understand you re busy, so we design and deliver the course in a way that can fit around your schedule. That s why all our courses are delivered online, so you don t even need to leave the office! Online Businesses, Not Websites Sales Training How can you build a competitive advantage with Business Catalyst? How can you upsell and upgrade your clients? In this training program you ll learn about different ways to sell, upgrade and upsell your clients. And because it s delivered online, you never need to leave the office. Implementation Assistance Building your first site? Need a little help? No problems! You ll get access to our fast-turn-around implementation support center. They ll answer your questions and assist you so that you can get your first site up and running as quickly as possible. Ongoing Support Beyond your first site with us, we ll provide you with complete ongoing support. Our partners love our responsive support service with its quick turnarounds (max 8 business hours). We ve also got two 1 hour technical Q&A webinars with screen sharing every week, to ask any questions that might come up. You can attend as many as you like. Finally our sales team run monthly sales webinars to discuss the latest techniques and technology to more effectively sell Business Catalyst. A Comprehensive Training Manual This 300+ page reference manual provides you with all the answers to your questions! It contains the material covered in our training sessions and more, with in-depth feature coverage and advanced tips and tricks. A Dedicated Account Manager Every Designer Success graduate has a dedicated account manager to provide for all of their needs. Your account manager is your first point of contact for any sales related questions you might have, and will contact you and get you started once you sign up. Complete Technology Rebranding* Stay top-of-mind for your clients beyond the hand-over! Designer Success Partners can completely rebrand the system, from the administration interface right through to notifications and system announcements. Your Online Business Hub - The Partner Portal You can more effectively service your customers with your Business Catalyst Partner Portal. Manage your clients, sites and commissions. Access our library of sales and training materials. Quickly replicate sites for express implementation. Your Own Business Catalyst Site Valued at over $1000 per annum, you have a free site with us as long as you are an active partner. You can use it to showcase the solution, train yourself and your staff or host your own business website and on! * Technology rebranding only available in the Designer Success Partner package.

4 FAQs Q. What is Business Catalyst s business model? A. We are essentially a web hosting company focused on building great products for web designers. So our business relies on designers building sites on our next generation hosting platform, Business Catalyst. That s why Designer Success works so well - we only succeed if our partners succeed! Q. Do I have to worry about buying or leasing servers to host Business Catalyst? A. No, not at all! Business Catalyst is a hosted solution, which means we manage the servers for you. Incremental upgrades to the system are automatically applied to every site, so you never have to worry about installing or patching the system. Q. How reliable are your servers? What s your SLAs in regards to uptime? A. Our servers are extremely reliable, with uptime statistics of around %. Our uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA) is guaranteed at 99.9%. Please find further details in our end user agreement found at enduseragreement. Q. What sort of support do you offer me? A. Your dedicated account manager will support you with whatever sales questions you have, and our support team runs a fast-turnaround support service (SLA of 8 business hours). We ve also got our twice-weekly online Q&A training sessions for those more in-depth questions! You can attend as many of these as you like. Q. What sort of support do you offer for my customers? A. Our support and weekly Q&A webinars are open for your customers to use as well! Q. What happens after I sign up? A. After you sign up your Dedicated Account Manager will contact you via or phone to welcome you and point you in the right direction to get started. They will setup your free site and access to your own Partner Portal. They will also organize for you to join the in-depth training sessions as soon as possible. Q. Can I upgrade to Partner later if I sign up for Reseller now? A. Of course! Just pay the Reseller amount now and you can upgrade to Partner later - you ll just need to pay the difference. Q. Can I write my own code (ASP, PHP, JSP or other) and run it on Business Catalyst? A. The premise behind Business Catalyst is that you shouldn t need to write any code! So we ve concentrated on making the system flexible and powerful so you can create all sorts of powerful business functionality to meet the needs of your customers without programming. Q. If I have custom requirements can you implement them for me? A. Strictly speaking, no. However we love hearing feature requests, and if your request is beneficial to other partners and customers, we ll certainly consider it very seriously and may add it to the system. It s worth noting that the Business Catalyst product roadmap is strongly influenced by customer requests. Q. How does this differ from other web hosting? A. At a basic level, it doesn t - just connect to ftp and upload your web pages and it works! But the difference with Business Catalyst is the powerful builtin business functionality, which allows you to build Online Businesses, Not Websites without programming. Q. What do you mean Online Businesses, Not Websites? A. An online business is more than just a website. When we say websites, we are talking about brochures online most agree that websites are dead! An Online Business is a true sales, service and marketing tool that helps businesses succeed online. Q. How long does it take to learn BC? A. It takes about 1 week if you dedicate your time to building your first site with BC. However some people take a little longer as they go through our training course and slowly put their first site together. Q. How long does it take to make a site? A. For a trained Designer Success Graduate, even really complex sites only take a couple of days to implement. In our online training course you ll see how you can create an ecommerce website and a real-estate website with full search functionality and more in less than 4 hours! Q. Can I have my clients sign in from MY website? A. Yes! We can give you some simple code that you can include on your website that allows your customers to login to the back-end of their website. Q. Can I have 30-day sign-up option on my website too? A. Yes! You can include some simple code on your website that allows your prospects to create free, 30-day trial sites directly on your website. Each prospect who signs-up is automatically assigned to your Partner Portal. The system can also send preconfigured newsletters that will up sell your prospects to become paying customers. Q. What does Rebranding give me? A. BC partners not only have full access to our library of rebrandable sales and marketing collateral, but they can also completely rebrand the solution. That means that clients will see their logo when they log in and whenever they receive system notifications. You ll also be able to make your own announcements to all of your customers! Q. What does assistance with my first site include? A. Assistance with your first site includes access to our fast-turnaround implementation support center. This allows you to communicate with one of our qualified support engineers so you can have your questions answered in-depth. Q. How long has Business Catalyst been around? A. Our history goes back to 1997 when the BC management co-founded Start, a small business which quickly grew to become the most trafficked website and largest online community (> 1 million customers) in Australia (Business Review Weekly). Q. Is BC search engine friendly? A. Absolutely, BC is 100% search engine friendly. We even integrate with Google, Yahoo!, MSN sitemaps features so you can attain maximum search visibility. Q. What are the system requirements for Business Catalyst? A. All you need is a web browser, and you can run Business Catalyst anywhere! We support Internet Explorer 6+ and Firefox 1.5+ on Windows. On Mac we support Safari 2+ and Firefox Our Dreamweaver extension works on Dreamweaver 2004 MX, Dreamweaver 8 and the upcoming Dreamweaver 9 on both Windows and Mac. Q. What is Triangle exactly? A. Triangle is an extension for Adobe Dreamweaver. It sits inside Dreamweaver and seamlessly connects to the Business Catalyst online business platform. It allows you to build and edit your web pages, templates and online business functionality directly within Dreamweaver without any programming. Q. How much does Triangle cost? A. Triangle is Free to download, and takes less than one minute to install. You can start building sites with Triangle straight away if you sign up for a free trial! You only need to pay for sites once you want to go live. Q. Can I create trial sites for demonstration purposes to my customers? A. Of course! You can create as many 30-day trial sites as you like. There is no cost for a trial site and you only pay once you are ready to go live. If you need more than 30-days to build a site, simply contact us and we ll extend your trial site.

5 The Designer Success Program gives you the tools, training and support you need to take advantage of Business Catalyst so that you can earn higher profits and drive for greater success. What Other Designers Say About Designer Success When you join the Designer Success program you ll receive all the technology, training and support you need to succeed. The Designer Success Program includes: Join the elite ranks of our Designer Success graduates, and you too can grow your business, deliver more sites and create better outcomes for yourself and your clients. Below are just a handful of what some of our international partners say about Designer Success and Business Catalyst. Jill McMahon I have been working with Business Catalyst for the past 6 months and I can truly say that my business size has grown substantially. Their website solution has made it possible for me to design and implement high quality, professional websites with many online features for a fraction of the traditional cost and time. Features that would normally require a web developer are now easy for me to do myself with the Business Catalyst Solution. This increases my revenue and saves my clients money. I don t know what I would do without them, seriously, they are great!!! Joi S Murugavell Business Catalyst delivers what it promises. We re impressed with their professionalism and innovation. As designers, we need to concentrate on what we do best, so it s pretty fantastic working with a company that shares your vision and empowers you in areas you may otherwise not venture into. Our clients are grinning too. Marc Iannacone Anyone who thinks they can get comparative technology, capability and value to Business Catalyst should phone me on right now because I don t believe them. Scott Forrester What I believe to be one of the most invaluable parts to Business Catalyst is their excellent support and customer service which to me instills confidence in the future of this great system. Designer Success Pricing Simply choose from the three options below for the package that best suits you and your business, and fill in the form below! Affiliate $0 10% Reseller $995 20% Partner $ % Cost Commissions Training Free Partner Site Rebranding COMPLETE THIS FORM AND FAX IT TO OR GO TO http businesscatalyst.com designersuccess TO SIGN UP ONLINE! Choose Plan Credit Card Details Full name on card Card Type Card Number Card Expiry date Amount Signature Affiliate $0 Reseller $995 Partner $1995 Payment ethod (if not paid online) Check (please attach and mail with this form) Credit Card (please fill out your details below) Business Catalyst Level 8, 99 Mount Street North Sydney 2060 AUSTRALIA Phone a Applications subject to Business Catalyst s approval

6 The Designer Success Program gives you the tools, training and support you need to take advantage of Business Catalyst so that you can earn higher profits and drive for greater success. Business Catalyst Technology When you join the Designer Success program you ll receive all the technology, training and support you need to succeed. The Designer Success Program includes: Business Catalyst is the one-stop solution helping businesses create online success. Built from the ground up as an all-in-one platform, Business Catalyst provides true integration between all facets of the solution. With pricing comparable to regular business hosting (ranging from US$20 - $97 / month) we ve got a seamless upgrade path and a package for every business. So take command of your projects and start delivering Online Businesses, Not Websites, today. Website Management Contact Management Forums Marketing Lead and Case Management RSS E-Commerce Bookings And more! Blogs Reporting For more information about BC Technology please visit