Outsell Names Bill Milon VP of Sales, Marketing & Customer Development
5 June 2000
Will Develop Programs to Build and Serve Outsell's Rapidly Growing Customer BaseMINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Minn. - Outsell, LLC has named Bill Milon vice president of sales, marketing and customer development. In addition to leading the firm's sales and marketing efforts, Milon will be responsible for building an infrastructure to serve Outsell's rapidly growing customer base. Outsell is the creator of Digital Dialogue(R), a browser-based online service that allows for directed, person-to-person, immediate interaction over the Internet. "Bill is a terrific addition to the Outsell management team," said Judson Bemis, Jr., chairman and CEO. "He brings broad leadership experience in operations, sales and marketing, customer development and organizational change. The timing of his arrival couldn't be better. This is a year of significant product evolution for us, one which we believe will keep us on the cutting edge of Web marketing." Milon was most recently Midwest regional marketing manager for Bank of America, where he worked in the development, positioning, rollout, promotion and marketing for new products and programs. He has also been a consultant in the banking industry. He also served eight years as vice president of retail banking at Midwest Federal Savings and Loan, Minneapolis, where he managed the transformation of the bank's culture to compete with regional money-center banks, national brokerage firms and insurance companies. Milon also held a variety of managerial and technical positions at Prudential Insurance in Minneapolis, in sales, operations and computer systems analysis. Born and raised in Montana, Milon has an MBA from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. and a BSB from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Currently Outsell is concentrating its Digital Dialogue marketing on the business-to-business, Internet reseller and automobile dealer sectors. Businesses nationwide are using Digital Dialogue to quicken their Internet response time, build customer relationships, and close sales to shoppers who visit their Web sites. With Digital Dialogue, Internet consumers can start a dialogue with an Internet agent immediately while on the Web site. By giving consumers the information they need immediately, businesses have a far better chance of making and upgrading the sale. Outsell, LLC is an Internet marketing services company based in Minneapolis. Outsell's Digital Dialogue offers the impatient Internet customer a way to "talk" and review information with a live agent. It also provides visual enhancement of the on-line chat by allowing agents to send pictures and documents to a Web visitor. A live demo of Digital Dialogue can be viewed between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Central Time at http://www.outsell.com