- Close to 25 Integra Members sign up to the new sales intelligence service -

Solihull, UK - June 16th, 2008 - sales-i, (www.sales-i.com) the real-time sales acceleration service for front line sales people today announced that its partnership agreement with Integra Office Supplies, (www.integra-office.co.uk) the leading Office Supplies and IT dealer group in the UK and Ireland is going from strength to strength. Since the announcement in March to offer a new sales intelligence service exclusively for Integra members, entitled Sales Alert, close to 25 Integra companies have signed up to the service.

Sales Alert is offered to all Integra members to boost their sales visibility and market penetration. Built using sales-i as its foundation, Sales Alert delivers accelerated sales awareness and gap analysis for member companies highlighting cross sell and up sell opportunities across all product ranges. Changes in customer behaviour and buying patterns are provided in real-time by email and text message to alert front-line sales people to new sales opportunities. Sales Alert is provided as a service, on-demand with a monthly fee; no software, no downloads. Integra will hand-hold all members to acquire the necessary data and upload to the Sales Alert system.

Luke Chapman, Integra’s sales director pioneered the campaign to offer a world-class sales intelligence service to its members and is delighted with the take up. “This is proving to be a real success amongst our member companies many of whom are already enjoying very visible benefits of increased sales, margins and improved share of the customer wallet.” Luke continues, “This improved insight is also giving us valuable information into the buying behaviours of our member companies and their customers and will allow us to repurpose that know-how to shape the future of the industry.”

Amongst those companies who have recently signed up to the Sales Alert service is Northern Ireland based Denis Smyth Office Products. David Martin is delighted to confirm that the service has delivered benefits to his company in under 3 weeks! “The benefits are very immediate and very visible,” explains David. “With sales-i I have instant and full visibility of our customers and what they are, or are not, buying. I use this knowledge to electronically alert my sales team who can respond in real time to these sales opportunities. The sales team feels empowered and is making very productive use of their face to face time with customers. I have real time visibility of margins, sales and how the team is responding to the alerts.”

Andrew Turnbull of Harts Office Solutions is also very excited about the potential for Sales Alert, commenting, “We have waited for years for a product or service to come along and offer us straightforward, easy to use sales intelligence. We have relied for some time on a rather haphazard approach to gap analysis and any systems that did exist were difficult to use and beyond our novice users. We are very excited about the difference that Sales Alert will make to our margins, profits and share of customer wallet.”

Paul Black is co-founder of sales-i and attributes much of the successful take up of Sales Alert to the attitude of the Integra team. “Integra takes its members buying power and market share very seriously and the introduction of Sales Alert is a further endorsement of this ambition to constantly improve its service levels and exceed its customers’ expectation. Now with a number of very positive testimonials in place, we are confident that many other Integra members will follow suit.”

To find out more about Sales Alert, please visit www.sales-i.com/integra

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