SellFolio™ for Client Projects-Merchandising

August 18, 2006; 08:10 AM

Lake Forest, IL – Sales managers want faster, cost-effective ways to get sales materials and sales training to the field and targeted promotions to prospects.  However, many companies don’t have an intranet or extranet, or the information is outdated and overwhelming. Now SellFolio for Client Projects-Merchandising allows managers and their assistants to build unlimited, royalty-free Web & CD-ROM browsers to package and present their sales tools and promotions — without programming. According to Russ McNeilly, SellFolio VP of Sales, “SellFolio’s rich media helps go-getter sales managers focus their message and imagery by including PowerPoint™ presentations, photos, movies, audio narration, web links and documents while the competition drowns their message in mere text.”  A downloadable free trial version of SellFolio for Client Projects-Merchandising ($329.00) is available on www.sellfolio.com/downloads.htm.

With SellFolio for Client Projects-Merchandising, a sales assistant can create professional grade Web and CD browsers in about 30 minutes, yet produce results that look like the sales department spent thousands of dollars. According to Steve McNeilly, SellFolio VP of Technology, “In addition to SellFolio’s use as a promotional tool, more sales departments want to package files, resources & training that help them sell.  Plus, they want to keep the project in-house so they can make updates whenever they want.” With step-by-step screens and excellent “how to” tutorials, users select from one of the twelve stunning Style templates, add photos with captions, and even add music & narration. Then they publish their work to the Web using their own hosting or SellFolio’s ‘one-button upload’ ViewWork.com™ hosting. Plus, they can publish the same content on CD-ROMs that start right up when the user puts the CD in their drive. 

According to Barry Hentz, VP of Marketing, Bunzl Distribution USA, a supplier of a range of products including outsourced food packaging, disposable supplies, and cleaning and safety products with a field sales force of 500, “We needed a way to get sales training, sales tools and vendor materials out to the field to drive consistency and a common message, but the files we needed to distribute were just too big for email. SellFolio for Client Projects-Merchandising has been an excellent tool for us to gather and distribute our materials, and now we create mini-CDs as carry-arounds for our sales force.”

Key features in SellFolio for Client Projects- Merchandising:
* Build projects that showcase all your rich media
* Same content on the web and CD for online or off-line field staff and partners
* Automatically sizes and compresses photos from different sources & vendors for a unified look
* Add music & narration for a great mood
* No programming required
* A stunning visual look-and-feel
* Animated promotional introduction
* An interactive main menu
* Modules that can display Images, Files or Web links
* Pages of descriptive information, with web links and .PDF document downloads
* Contact information

About SellFolio LLC
SellFolio is a privately held company founded in Chicago in 2003 by Russ McNeilly and Steve McNeilly. Together they have over 35 years experience in the multimedia and software businesses. Russ McNeilly’s career includes top marketing positions at world-standard software companies such as InstallShield and SPSS.  He holds an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago. Steve McNeilly founded Aviation Tutorials in 1996, and holds a BS from the University of Illinois and Institute of Aviation. He is also a professional pilot who is rated to fly Boeing 737s and DC-8s. Steve and Russ have won various awards both jointly and separately for multimedia and web presentation, including top awards from Chicago Software Association, Pansophic and Forox competitions.