Sales Assist: Get started as a Sales User
As a Sales User, you can use Sales Assist by Uberflip to easily find and share your organization's content with prospects. Get up and running in under ten minutes with this handy quick start guide.
Before you begin
- To use Sales Assist, you will need your Uberflip username and password. If you're not sure what they are, contact your Uberflip administrator for help.
- If you use Chrome, we recommend downloading the Sales Assist Chrome extension, which makes it really easy to share content by email or in the sales tool(s) you use. Click here to get the Sales Assist extension from the Chrome web store.
- Sales Assist is also fully responsive, so it works great on your mobile devices too!
What is Sales Assist?
Sales Assist is Uberflip's next-generation sales engagement tool. Marketing teams use Uberflip to create content, and Sales Assist empowers sales representatives with that content by making it easy to find and use at any point during the sales cycle.
With Sales Assist, you can:
- Easily find content your prospects will love (or even create your own)
- Personalize content in seconds
- Deliver content to prospects through personalized destinations
- Track engagement on content you've shared in real time with desktop notifications
Sales Assist works within your existing sales workflows and tools, so it seamlessly integrates into your day-to-day and won't slow you down.
Navigating the app
In this section, we'll look at how to navigate the app.
Basic navigation
Sales Assist has three main sections: Search, My Streams, and My Shares.
- To navigate between these three sections, use the navigation menu at the top:
Note: If you're a Sales Assist administrator, you'll also see an Admin section. See Sales Assist: User Guide for Admins for more information.
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Click your name in the top right to open the user menu, where you can edit your profile, access Sales Assist help and documentation, or sign out of the app:
Section overview
Here's a quick overview of what you'll find in each section:
Click on in the navigation menu to open the Search section:
This section contains:
- The search tools, which allow you to find pieces of content ("Items"). You can search by keywords, tags, and content type, or just content within predefined content collections (Marketing Streams). You can also view the most shared Items in your organization, Items you've created yourself, or your favorited Items.
- The results panel, which lists all of the available content Items that match your search criteria. Here you can Add Items to your basket, see Items' preview or stats, or share Items directly.
- The basket, which is where you "save" Items (even across different searches) to include in a personalized destination ("Stream").
Click on in the navigation menu to open the My Streams section:
This section displays a list of your previously created Streams, and allows you to view and edit them, as well as share them and see activity on Streams you've shared.
Click on in the navigation menu to open the My Shares section:
This section shows you activity and stats on Items and Streams you've shared in the past 48 hours, so you can follow up at the right time.
Sales Assist Quick Start Guide
Ready to get started with Sales Assist? Let's dive right in.
Step 1: Log in to Sales Assist
Because Sales Assist is a web app, there are multiple ways to access it. Simply choose the option(s) that best fit your outreach workflow:
- Works with any browser, on any desktop or mobile device.
- Choose this option if want to use Sales Assist on a phone or tablet, or if you prefer to use a larger version of the Sales Assist interface on your desktop.
To access Sales Assist in a browser:
- Requires the Google Chrome browser.
- Opens Sales Assist in a sidebar, next to your current Chrome tab.
- Choose this option to use Sales Assist without having to leave the tab you're currently working in. This allows you to easily access Sales Assist while you're doing outreach by email (e.g. in Gmail), or using a web-based sales engagement tool (like Salesloft).
To access Sales Assist using the Chrome extension:
- Go to the Chrome Web Store and download and install the Sales Assist extension.
- Click on the Extensions (puzzle piece) button in Chrome, then click on Sales Assist by Uberflip:
- Requires Outlook 2016 or newer, or Outlook Office 365 (Outlook on the web), or Outlook.com.
- Opens Sales Assist in a sidebar within Outlook.
- Choose this option to use Sales Assist without having to leave Outlook. This allows you to easily access Sales Assist while you're doing email outreach.
To access Sales Assist using the Outlook Add-in:
- Install the Sales Assist Add-in for Outlook: see this article for detailed instructions on how to get and install the Add-in.
No matter which option you choose to access Sales Assist, the login process is the same:
- Click on Login with Uberflip.
- Enter your Uberflip username (email) and click Next.
- Enter your password and click Log In.
- If your organization uses a Single Sign-On service (like Okta) to log in to Uberflip, click on the Log in with... button instead of entering your password, then sign in as normal. After you sign in, you'll be redirected back to Sales Assist.
That's it! You're logged in to Sales Assist, and can begin using the app.
Step 2: Gather content to share
Step 2.1: Search for content
Next, use Search to find some content to share with your prospects. First, choose how you want to find content:
If you just need some content fast, click on the See Most Shared button:
This will show you the top content that's been shared the most often by other Sales Users in your organization.
If you're looking for something specific, use the search tools.
- In the All Items tab, type one or more keywords into the search box (1).
Optional: add tag (2) or content type (3) filters. -
Browse the list of search results to find the content you want:
Tip: By default, the list of search results will be sorted by Most Shared. Use the dropdown menu in the top right to sort the search results by Newest or Alphabetical instead:
Go to the Marketing Streams tab to search ready-made collections of content within your content library:
- Type one or more keywords into the search box to search for specific content collections.
- Browse the list of search results to see available collections.
- To view content within a collection, hover your mouse over it and then click on Items:
Step 2.2: Add content to your basket
When you find some content that you want to share, add it to your basket. Content in the basket will be included in the custom, personalized destination you'll share with your prospect.
- To add some content to your basket, hover your mouse over that content, then click on Add:
Can't see the Add button?
If you don't see the Add button, this means that your Sales Assist admin has disabled the ability to create Streams from scratch. Don't worry — just skip to step 3.
- Your basket is shown at the bottom or right of the page (depending on where you're using Sales Assist).
Here you'll also see how many items you've already added:
Tip
Not sure if a piece of content is exactly what you're looking for? Hover your mouse over it, click Details, then click the Preview tab to view it:
Step 3: Create a personalized destination
Use the content in your basket to create a personalized destination for your prospect. We call this destination a "Stream" — a custom microsite that you can set up in seconds:
- With content items in your basket, click on the New Stream button:
- You can also create a new Stream by clicking on Streams at the top, then clicking on the +New button:
(This option is especially useful if you couldn't add content to your basket in Step 2.)
- You can also create a new Stream by clicking on Streams at the top, then clicking on the +New button:
- Fill out the Create a New Sales Stream form to personalize the destination for your prospect:
- Heading: This is your destination's headline, shown in large text across the top.
- Message: Use this to enter a brief personalized message for your prospect. It's shown immediately below the heading.
- Prospect: Enter the email or just the domain (the part of the email after the @ symbol) of your prospect. Don't worry, nothing will be sent to them yet! Sales Assist just uses this information to find the prospect's company logo.
- Template: Select a premade template to style your destination (i.e. the banner, colors, etc.).
- When you're done, click Create Stream.
- Your destination will now be created, and you'll be taken to the Manage Stream page. Here you can make necessary tweaks, add a welcome video, and preview the Stream you just made:
When you're happy with how everything looks, your destination is ready to be shared!
For a more in-depth look at creating and managing Streams, check out: Sales Assist: Create, manage, and share Streams.
Step 4: Share the destination with your prospect
Now that you've set up the destination, you'll create a trackable embed link to it that you can share with your prospect.
- On the Manage Stream page, click on the Share button:
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Choose the embed option you want to use. There are five options, with previews:
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Banner Image with Logos*: Your logo and your prospect’s logo over your Stream's banner.
*This option is only available when:
- A logo has been uploaded to the Hub Thumbnail field in your Uberflip account (Appearance > Branding > Images (photo icon) > Hub Thumbnail)
- You have set a prospect logo on the Manage Stream page
- The Stream has a banner image set
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Image and Text: Link preview, with logos and Stream heading.
Note: If a prospect logo or Hub Thumbnail is not set, logos will be replaced by Stream description. - Tile Image: A compact image that functions as a clickable link to the content.
- Just Text: Just a text link, no image.
- Just the Link: No embed, just the underlying URL (including its share tracking code) that you can link to.
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Banner Image with Logos*: Your logo and your prospect’s logo over your Stream's banner.
- Click on Copy to Clipboard under the option you want to use...
- ...then just paste the link into an email (or anywhere else you want to share it):
- Now, just hit Send and wait for your prospect to start engaging with your content!
Step 5: Track engagement and follow up
Every link you share through Sales Assist has tracking built in. Sales Assist will notify you anytime someone is checking out the content you've shared, so that you can follow up with the right people at just the right time.
- As long as you're still logged in to Sales Assist in at least one browser tab (or if the extension is open), you'll get a notification:
- And if you miss a notification, you can always click on Shares to catch up on historical engagement and stats:
For more information on tracking engagement and stats, check out Sales Assist: Track Stream engagement.
What's next?
Great job, you're up and running with Sales Assist!
We only covered the basics in this quick start guide, and there's a lot more you can do with Sales Assist:
- Create your own content and templates
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Customize your Streams with:
- a welcome video
- Stream sections
- a passphrase
- and more
- Manage your Streams
If you want to learn more about these features and more, check out the Sales Assist section of the Uberflip Help Center.