MPMW Classes (register or cancel below)

 

On-line Classes

For current users of the MPMW model…make your life easier by learning tricks and techniques about how the model works.

In one hour segments online – you never have to leave your desk; you can connect with other users and find out they have the same questions!

Sessions on a variety of topics, one every Tuesday, at noon, starting April 4th.  Mix and match, take them all!  Suggest other topics helpful to you!

Session cost:  Only $75 for a full hour of training.  If you sign up for all 10 classes during this session, you will get one for free.  Sessions held only if at least 3 people register.   Requirements: Access to computer with internet connection and telephone.

Class # Date

Title

 Content
1 Tuesday, October 27th – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Inputting New Business Production The tools and tricks to input your projections easily and quickly.  What do those “Adj” do?  Production vs. Starts, how does the cancel column work? 
2 Tuesday, November 3rd – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Understanding Renewal Lines How to read them.  How to update for new assumptions as of a certain date.  How to input a new renewal line.  Understanding what renewal source numbers are.
3 Tuesday, November 10th – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Best Practices for uploading production and balancing How to fix errors for issue numbers and missing sources.  Input of actuals vs projections and related switches.  What to check before and after production uploads.  What does balancing mean?  What if I don’t balance?
4 Tuesday, November 17th – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Expire Inventory How to upload your expire inventory.  How often should I do it? How does the model reads the data from your fulfillment house and what’s in there?  How to deal with errors of missing sources or missing renewal lines.  How to set the expire list date.  Balancing the inventory.  Balancing the first issue.  The switch for Inc/Copy vs Liability
5 Tuesday, November 24th – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Understanding Reports How do the reports work?  What’s a generic versus a non-generic report?  How to read a report definition.  How to add a source to a report.  How to change the name of a source on a report.  Options for output on reports.
6 Tuesday, December 1st – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Data Entry Tools & Tips We are constantly improving the model to make your life easier.  We have many tools and options to ensure that your data entry is as easy as possible.  Review of what those tools are and how and when to use them.
       
7 Tuesday, December 8th – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Making your model work for you - Tools and Option Tips We are constantly improving the model to make your life easier and manage the data as well as the varying ways companies do business and what they need to know, in the model.  We have many tools and options to allow you to model the way your business works.  For instance, have you used the Change Start Period, RAB option, Efforts Analysis, Optimizer or Effort Renewal Summary? Review of these options and more.  What they are and how and when to use them.
8 Tuesday, December 15th – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Options for Modeling Christmas Orders Given the timing and how they start, Christmas gifts can be tricky to model. There are a number of ways to model Christmas – depending upon your marketing plan and fulfillment system.  Are you modeling the best way for you?  We will review the different ways you might model it to see which one might work best for you.
       
9 Tuesday, December 22nd – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Modeling for Auto Renewals Auto renewals can be much more profitable then regular renewals, so more and more people are using them. Depending on how and when you are promoting your auto renewals require you to use different features of the model – and you want to make sure you are modeling them well.  Even if you have already been using AutoRenewals, we will review new features and options recently added that can make them even more accurate.
10 Tuesday, December 29th – 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST Modeling for Different Editions, including Digital and others We have developed a number of features to enable you to more easily model digital and other editions along with your print.  From reporting to how you input, there are a number of ways to configure your model to report and project different editions.  We will review the different options and talk about how you might want to approach including this growing business into your model.
  OPTIONAL - upon request Model Intro/Overview For upper management, finance department, or other non or new modelers, this short overview will show you what the model does and what it does not.  How information is fed into the model, how it all comes together and what options you have for output.

We retain the right to cancel a class for lack of interest.  

To register for a Class or tell us you are interested please email classes@dm-systems.com with your company name the names of attendees and which classes each want to attend.  If you would like to attend a class(es) but can't attend on the scheduled date(s) please tell us that too so we can schedule another class later.

We'll confirm you are attending and bill you later.

Canceling a Class

You can cancel a class without charge as long as you cancel at least a week before the class starts.  If you want to cancel e-mail us at classes@dm-systems.com .