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Show Clients Proposals on Your iPad with Salez Toolz App

The iPad app from Salez Toolz lets you communicate and illustrate to clients on the fly how different choices in electronics systems building will affect they're bottom line.


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Lost among the eye candy at CEDIA Expo 2010 were probably the least-sexy products of all: software. But in this economy, you could argue that operational and sales software might be the most important thing to see at the show.

Sales process software has reached into the 21st Century with the Salez Toolz iPad app. Seriously, how bad does it look for an integrator to walk into a customer’s home carrying a clipboard and pencil these days?

Salez Toolz is designed to let customers see the proposal being built. Dealers tend to offer multiple complex systems with an array of variables. Customers do their best to keep up with verbal descriptions but can easily be confused. Often, the one thing they understand is price. With the iPad app, you can show them as you go how different choices along the way will affect the cost estimate.

Of course, even after explaining the costs of an installation, integrators might get a vague response. It then takes several days to create a proposal for the customer. Customers go right to the bottom line and are always shocked (even though it’s within the price range you gave them).

Salez Toolz allows the customer to visually track the product categories and see how his choices affect the budget total and immediately modify those choices. No surprises, and you'll even impress clients with your iPad savvy.

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About the Author

Jason Knott, Editor, CE Pro
Jason has covered low-voltage electronics as an editor since 1990. He joined EH Publishing in 2000, and before that served as publisher and editor of Security Sales, a leading magazine for the security industry. He served as chairman of the Security Industry Association’s Education Committee from 2000-2004 and sat on the board of that association from 1998-2002. He is also a former board member of the Alarm Industry Research and Educational Foundation. He is currently a member of the CEDIA Education Action Team for Electronic Systems Business. Jason graduated from the University of Southern California.

2 Comments (displayed in order by date/time)

Posted by Mark Sipe  on  10/10  at  02:52 PM

After CEDIA we had such a great response, while dealers are buying both the laptop/desktop version, the iPad app has been a huge success.
I think dealers are getting the fact you need to close the sale before you spend any time engineering.  This isn’t a new model, just new to our industry, but it works well.

Posted by Mark Coxon  on  10/11  at  12:12 AM

The Sales Toolz booth at CEDIA never seemed to lack traffic, despite its off to the left and towards the back location.

I happened by the booth a couple times and theye were slammed each time.

Mark is not exaggerating the response of most integrators I witnessed integrators going through the demonstrations.  Nearly everyone smiled and nodded along with Mark and Susan as they showed them how the product can save countless hours of engineering and re-engineering jobs that have not even been sold yet.

As a sales person by trade myself, it seems that an iPad based quote, that can be tailored to budget on the fly, to get a check and a system engineering agreement on the spot, is an invaluable tool.

Not only does it help close the sale, it frees up time to sell the next job.

Best,

Mark C

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