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Sales-I Will Help Auto Aftermarket Warehouse Distributors Grow

By Rahul Arora
TMCnet Contributor

Good news for Auto aftermarket warehouse distributors and jobbers! A new service called Sales-I was unveiled at the 2010 AAPEX/SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Sales-I was a proven platform in the U.K. automotive market that is being brought to North America through a strategic agreement between WebLink Solutions Corporation and Sales-I. Through this service, Auto aftermarket warehouse distributors and jobbers will now be able to improve customer relationship management, identify new sales opportunities, monitor sales activity and improve customer service with a new cost-effective on-demand service.

"Sales-I is a perfect tool for distributors to unearth the gold in sales data and identify opportunities for upselling and cross selling,” said JD Meints, WebLink's president, in a statement. “It includes built-in CRM functionality to put sales organizations ahead of the curve in customer visibility and service."

“In the past our industry has 'made do' with a patchwork of internal systems and perhaps some salesforce.com. The significant difference with Sales-I is that it includes integrated sales and customer intelligence, in one system, delivered using an on-demand software as a service (SaaS (News - Alert)) model on a very low subscription fee basis. What's more, Sales-I delivers real-time information to any mobile device making it ideal for sales reps in the field as well as office-based sales staff. I know the automotive market will love this and adopt it very quickly and we are delighted to be the first to market with this exciting sales acceleration tool," he added, while noting that Sales-I was designed for high volume distribution businesses.

Kevin McGirl, Sales-I's co-founder, was very happy about the new strategic partnership with WebLink.

“WebLink has an outstanding reputation for delivering robust, flexible and comprehensive eCommerce solutions to the North American automotive market. They have extensive market footprint and knowledge and we could not have found a company better placed to launch Sales-I into this market," McGirl said in a press release. “We have already secured a growing base of automotive customers in the U.K. including Yuasa Batteries, Universal Components, Kalimex and Alexander Dennis and they are reaping fast returns and increased sales. We are looking forward to supporting JD and the WebLink team to enable this vast market with business-changing sales and customer intelligence.”

Rahul Arora is a TMCnet contributor. He has worked as an editor and freelance writer for several reputed organizations in India. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jaclyn Allard