Retail Execution with VisitBasis

With the development of mobile technologies, sales team management software has evolved into a comprehensive tool that lets you manage field sales, retail audits, marketing and promotions, merchandising activities and more than that in all-in-one easily accessible solution. However, there is a lot of confusion when comes to choosing the right field team management software for your sales reps. Due to the great variety of vendors and types of software for salespeople it’s often hard to make the decision of what is the best sales app for your company. When choosing a software solution for sales teams, managers mostly consider it’s cost. Without diminishing the importance of the cost, it still should be noted that there are some other points to consider when choosing a software solution for field team management. Generally the best field team management apps for your field reps are largely dependent on the needs of your company. Getting this right upfront will save you b...

If the top priority for your business is to maximize sales, then you definitely should concentrate your efforts on maximizing your field reps sales potential. Your field sales team is the most important productivity engine that provides the overall effectiveness of sales process.  If you want to increase productivity and effectiveness of your field reps, you need to provide your sales team with the right technology and tools to stay ahead the competitors and meet customer needs. Here are some of the best practices we have seen for maximizing your field reps sales potential: Give your field reps the up-to-date mobile devices. Instead of relying on paper of bulky laptops, invest in tablets and smartphones. Modern mobile devices such as as iPads, iPhones and Android tablets and smartphones, allow your field reps to have mobile access to corporate data. Empowered with sleek mobile devices, your field sales reps are able to quickly access product catalog, presenta...

As the US economy continues to improve, it is expected for business of all sizes to plan on capitalizing on the positive market conditions. Bottom line is, everybody wants to sell more. Naturally, companies with field sales teams are no different, and VisitBasis can help these companies increase revenues in several ways: By empowering outside sales reps - VisitBasis brings the sales process to your reps' mobile devices. Your field team will have access to mobile ordering, as well as customer and product information, and will even be able to prospect by adding new customers to the system while on the field. By improving training - With VisitBasis you can set up predefined tasks for your reps to perform at customers, so you can more easily implement successful sales strategies. By making it easy to squeeze in extra sales calls - The VisitBasis Route Optimization tool saves your team time and money by plotting the shortest customer route for the day, so it might open u...

Bring your field sales team to the mobile age! The successful field sales reps normally rely on soft skills and techniques designed to convince the customer to purchase. Sometimes, these learned techniques have roots in old-style relationship selling but there is an opportunity to leverage technology to generate efficiencies to this process, reducing sales cycles and increasing revenue. VisitBasis is a complete mobile field sales solution , as it is a cloud-based enterprise data collection software for managing, scheduling, and monitoring field team activities in real-time. It allows field sales operations managers and supervisors to oversee all stages of the outside sales process, from assigning territories, calls and tasks to retrieving up-to-the minute results through VisitBasis online dashboard and reports. With the VisitBasis App field reps are able to: Place orders and supply call-related information from wherever they are Calculate the best route for the ...

In order for any business to grow, it is paramount to increase revenues and sales is the business most empowered to do that. But are there any mobile apps out there that can actually help companies increase sales rep productivity , boosting sales? After all, as the Apple commercial says: "There's an app for that". Naturally, there are several systems on the market that give the promise of increased sales, but not that many are designed to do so by actually streamlining field sales operations. An app that will actually be effective in boosting revenues should provide businesses: Mobile ordering with bar code recognition A BYOD (bring-your-own-device) interface, so outside sales reps are able to use the app in their own smartphones and tablets, with no need for extra hardware Optimized GPS routing in order to improve the number of sales calls per day Real-time tracking and monitoring of field reps in order to improve training and speed-up decision makin...