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Every sales team shares one quiet frustration. Everyone is busy, everyone is working hard, but until the numbers land at month-end, nobody is quite sure whether all that effort is adding up to the goal. By the time the report arrives, the month is often gone and the chance to course-correct has passed. It does not matter whether your team is out in the field servicing sites, cycling through dozens of reorder accounts a week, or nurturing a handful of long, considered deals. The challenge is the same. Progress is happening, but it is hard to see while it is happening. Skynamo's Targets feature removes the guesswork.

A B2B field sales rep’s days rarely go exactly to plan. A customer cancels. Another one suddenly needs stock. Traffic gets obnoxious. Your manager wants better coverage in one area. Visit planning is crucial. With Skynamo, field sales teams use Call Cycles and Visit Frequencies in our Sales Rep App to plan customer visits more clearly. They work differently, though. Both help reps stay consistent, cover the right customers, and spend less time asking, “Who should I see today?” Skip ahead: Show me a demo. Key takeaways Call Cycles are best when your team needs clear routes, regular coverage, and predictable visit

A customer visit is only useful if the right things happen afterwards. That is the real value of a call report. In field sales, your sales reps move quickly. One visit rolls into the next. Conversations cover stock, pricing, promotions, objections, service issues, orders, and next steps. If that information is captured badly, or not captured at all, the value of the visit starts slipping away. Your sales managers lose visibility. Your reps lose context. Follow-ups get missed. That is how our Call Report makes all the difference. It gives your team a clear, practical way to capture what happened, what matters, and

If you are a manufacturer, distributor, importer, or wholesaler, sales probably does not happen in one neat little lane. It happens in the field. On the phone. By email. Through customer self-service. Through repeat orders. Through reps. Through account managers. Through back-and-forth with operations. That is why complex sales businesses need a single sales operations platform: one place where sales can actually work. Not one more tool. Not one more spreadsheet. Not another app that solves one problem and creates three new ones. A unified platform. And yes, that sounds like a bit of a mouthful. So let’s break it

Ah, B2B sales. The backbone of businesses across manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, and import – especially where Skynamo HQ is based in South Africa, where reps are dodging potholes in Joburg traffic or navigating the N2’s eternal roadworks to keep the deals flowing. If you work in B2B sales in these industries, you know the drill: your field sales team is out there, hustling like champions, but back at base, it’s a different story. Spreadsheets that take hours to update, order forms scribbled on paper (or worse, lost in the boot of the bakkie), and stand alone accounting and ERP systems that feel like they

For many manufacturers, the job doesn’t end once a product leaves the warehouse. Whether it’s installation, routine maintenance, repairs, or technical support, there’s often a service technician involved, and that adds a layer of complexity that many systems simply don’t cater for. Field service is often where things fall apart. Technicians are expected to manage jobs, capture evidence, quote for parts, and report back, often with limited tools, poor connectivity, and little admin support. This is where Skynamo fits in. Originally built to simplify field sales, it’s now widely used by manufacturers with mobile

New Year, New Sales: The race to drive sales that thrive. There is nothing quite like a new year to get us really revved up to set new goals. Just ask the people in the treadmill queue at the gym. Every. Single. January. Whether it’s setting your sights on a victory on your scale, or trying to scale up your sales victories, there is no time like Jan to plan. It is, however, often a little daunting to know where to start. Especially when the 365 days of blank pages in your new leatherbound 2025 diary stare back at you somewhat accusingly. Related: The ultimate guide to creating a winning B2B sales strategy Get your

Do you, sales team, take us, Skynamo, to be your lawfully wedded sales tech until contract do us part? I do… think that this level of upfront commitment can be quite overwhelming. There is nothing like staring down the barrel of a contract to make even the warmest feet feel kinda cold. At Skynamo, we want a relationship with potential customers based on choice. Not blind commitment. We want future customers to feel like they have the chance to get to know us first, before they go “all in”. Introducing Skynamo Monthly Say hello to our all-new Monthly contract offering. Skynamo hereby offer our customers a level of

Looking back and thinking forward. With resolutions, mood boards and SMART goals a plenty, the wiff of a new year is in the air. But before we pop bottles, start chanting “3.. 2… 1…” and proudly conclude ‘new year, new me!’, there are lessons from the “old year, old you” not to forget, but on which we should rather reflect. The definition of insanity The is a reason that the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome” is an age old adage. While we usually think of this in more personal terms, like getting back with one’s ex or eating another tub of ice cream and expecting not to

Because the best deserve a break. Sho! Is there anything greater, than this time of year? A time of joy and festive cheer. A time when the weather is great, A time when we use any excuse to celebrate. Before we launch into a new genre of thought leadership poetry, enough with the rhyme. Seriously though, whether it’s the smell of sunblock in the air or Michael and Mariah becoming the soundtracks to our lives again, December hits different. You wouldn’t push a pull door Whilst December vibes hit different, they can also hit back. Let’s face it, when the clock strikes December, most people go ‘out-of-office’ long