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Annually, on National Salesperson Day, we celebrate the role outside salespeople play in business success. This year, our regional managers shared their observations from this unusual year, and the critical role they see outside sales teams play going forward. Much has been said about how unusual this year has been, but let’s talk about things that that remained the same. Those things we cannot do without. The things we rely on even more when the economic environment becomes more difficult to read, and the

Many business decision-makers wonder about the difference between Field Sales Automation – Sales Force Automation (SFA) – and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). What do they do? How do they complement each other? One of the fundamental differences between SFA and CRM is that while SFA looks after the entire sales process and tracks the efforts of salespeople and their face-to-face relationships with customers, CRM is all about customer profiles, data tools, office sales, account management and communicating with clients from a distance ‒ from

In a survey of over 400 field sales professionals we asked what they did during a typical week, concluding the time spent on admin could be better used on other sales activities. The comment that pops up most often when talking to sales managers is how much salespeople dislike admin. They want to be with their customers and prospects, selling. Not tied down to a desk, writing up reports and filling out forms and spreadsheets. Below you can see how over

Selling is increasingly pushed to purely digital channels and while it’s enhancing efficiency, it’s also removing the heart of selling: trust. Using the right kind of sales technology can play a crucial role in restoring trust between people. To be human is to sell In his best seller To Sell is

Skynamo joins Sage’s global partner ecosystem to extend Sage functionality and accelerate customer productivity 1 NOVEMBER 2018, STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA. Skynamo, a provider of cloud-based field sales management and mobile sales solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Sage to add mobile sales functionality to

CEO Today shares our article on The 6 Freedoms Your Company Culture Needs To Become More Innovative. Innovation is not a word that should be used frivolously. However, in recent years it has become a throwaway term that is frequently applied in reference to a product, act, or outcome. Few people use innovation to describe a continuous cycle or collective – a culture. In my experience, innovation as a culture is a ‘way of life’, a place to mix beliefs, knowledge and behaviours, which is why my

Skynamo continually adapts mobile app navigation features to better suit user needs and habits and to improve user experiences. Read about the most recent Skynamo navigation improvements to iOS and Android interfaces implemented by our development team. At Skynamo we continuously try and improve the way things are. Inevitably, that means that things change. Sometimes it helps to take a step backwards to get a view of the bigger picture. This is exactly what we did when we set out to improve the navigation of our

Skynamo was recently selected as one of nine finalists, out of 683 entries, for this year’s FNB Business Innovation Awards, in partnership with Endeavor South Africa. We didn’t win the award, which went to the very deserving (and totally amazing)

The greatest thing about living and working in 2018 is that we don’t have to know everything. We just need to know how to find out about everything. This is Skynamo’s list of four essential books for every sales manager. With these four books, you will have access to what you need, right now. 1. “The Accidental Sales Manager” by Chris Lytle Click here to buy. Why we