Q.  What makes the DCMS better than its competitors?

I'll try to be as modest as I can. What separates the DCMS from the rest... 

I think my most important asset is me, Stan Stoker. I started writing the DCMS to help my wife with her business. Angie developed her business into the first non-American National Area and became the first "Mary Kay Millionaire" outside the USA. In 1989, when she broke Company records with $1.6 million dollars unit production, she told a Seminar audience "one thing I had going for me was that Stan computerized me..."  Without knowing it, she started my business that day, as hundreds of consultants and directors asked for copies of what I was using.

So the DCMS was written by a person who has learned the business from one of the top Directors/ Nationals/ Trainers in Mary Kay. I have gone to 15 years of my wife Angie's Monday meetings and there isn't anything I don't understand about the business. I have been (and am still) Angie's administrative assistant all these years and have a lot of insight into what is needed to run a successful business. As a result, I speak your language (and the program speaks to you in your language). For instance, I know about all the work that gets done at the very end of the month.

Another important aspect related to the fact that I am my wife's administrative arm, is that I use the DCMS every day for Angie's business. I see things that could be done better in the real world and I am always improving the program to better serve you and me.

I am also as Go-Give as any Director, and I go out of my way to make your transition to computers as painless as possible. I see my job as helping you become successful, not selling software. 

I have taken the "Word Perfect" approach to software design. It has everything imaginable you could do to administer any level of Mary Kay business. Whether you are a brand new Consultant or a Senior National Sales director, with the DCMS Career Set, you will have all the tools you need to organize your business, without needing to buy another program. And the whole enchilada is integrated into one tight package. You will be very impressed. 

I completely believe that this is your program as well as mine, and I welcome input and improvement suggestions from my users. I am, first and foremost, a user of this program myself, in the pursuit of helping my wife in her career. I also have very good connections within the company and often know of changes to the marketing plan with lots of time to implement them in the program before they appear in your business. 

Most of the others are competent programs, but they are written by programmers who were commissioned by Directors or Consultants to help them - or were written by people who have since left Mary Kay to pursue the software business. Very few of my competitors have ever had to do a monthly newsletter or face a tax audit for their careers as Directors or Consultants. You learn a lot by doing the job every day - things you can't theorize about. You need someone with his ear to the ground to anticipate changes to the marketing plan. This is a much different business and you need the programmer to understand where the differences lie.

I truly believe that's me. 
 
 

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