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Speak to anyone who has experience in the South African field sales environment, whether they’re serving importers, manufacturers, wholesalers, or distributors, and they’ll agree that there’s still a legendary piece of technology being used in the market: the back of a cigarette box. Laugh if you will, but it’s still where many orders are scribbled, and terms are hashed out. The box is usually photographed and then sent via WhatsApp to field sales reps who hurriedly forward it to the admin office. Enter the silent tax levied on businesses: the cost of transactional friction. Mistakes creep in,

A few years back, data was a problem. As in, we didn’t have enough of it. We don’t have that problem anymore, right? Data? We have tons of it. The only problem is, we still don’t really know what to do with it. Advanced sales data analytics with AI is really where it's at for today’s sales teams who want a competitive

B2B Ordering App for faster, cleaner field sales orders Your sales reps are out there to sell. Not to juggle Excel sheets, scribble orders on paper, WhatsApp product codes to the office, or phone someone in finance to check whether a discount is allowed. There is a better way. Many South African B2B sales reps use the Field Sales App for instant

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,

Your sales reps don’t sell from behind a desk. They sell on the road, on customer sites, in storerooms, at branches, on factory floors, and in all the places where reception is unpredictable. That’s why it's so important for your sales reps to have a field sales app with offline capability.

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

Skynamo, the unified sales operations platform built for manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, has joined Klipboard, a global provider of vertically focused business management software. The move strengthens Skynamo’s ability to support complex sales and operational environments for nearly 1,000 businesses every day across Sub-Saharan Africa, the UK and the USA, while continuing to expand the platform that facilitates more than $70 million in monthly order value and supports millions of customer interactions annually. By joining Klipboard, Skynamo

Paper-based systems have been part of B2B sales reps’ daily grind for decades. Notebooks, order books, loose sheets, catalogues, WhatsApp messages, saved voice notes, spreadsheets… they all fall under the same umbrella: manual processes that hold your business back. In spite of wild advances in technology, AI, and devices, most wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers, and importers still use