SNEWS® Live: iClinic blends the worlds of sales training and video podcasting

iClinic is taking retailer training into a format most salespeople 30 years old and younger understand and fully embrace -- video podcasting. It's part technical product clinic and part lifestyle and entertainment, designed to both enlighten and inspire. Is this the next phase in retail staff training?
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SNEWS® Live -- iClinic -- located on www.pembaserves.com -- is taking retailer training into a format most younger salespeople understand and fully embrace -- video podcasting. It's part technical product clinic and part lifestyle and entertainment, designed to both enlighten and inspire. Is this the next phase in retail staff training? Retailers who are trying it seem to think so, and there's little doubt the staff are becoming engaged. What are the upsides and downsides? Listen in.

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