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How Can SMBs Compete with Big Businesses?

For small and medium companies - sometimes just starting up - it is hard to compete with big businesses. As the old saying goes: "You must spend money to make money". Larger businesses, therefore, have more resources to invest and typically can reap larger benefits from their investments in machinery, technology, personnel, etc. Mobile field force automation, for instance, used to be a dream for small and medium-sized business owners due to the heavy investment needed not only on system technology, but especially on equipment. The widespread use of smartphones and tablets, however, combined with the recent advent of Cloud computing and SaaS (software as a service), dramatically brought down the initial costs of implementing a mobile field force automation solution . After all, all that is needed now is for sales reps to install a mobile app on their existing smartphone or tablet and field force automation will be mostly up and running. Small and medium-sized business...

What Effective Field Force Managers Are Doing - and It's Not Out of Your Reach

Many small and medium-sized businesses are resistant to technology . With an if-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it approach to daily processes, and a natural "fear" of the unknown, they end up missing out on efficiency and profit-increasing opportunities brought by automation technology. If your business still relies on spreadsheets and paper-based workflows to manage field teams, chances are you haven't adopted any field force automation solution . Field force automation solutions allow field personnel to perform tasks at the customer location on smartphones and tablets - while making it possible for management to monitor field activity from the office - and have been disruptive to the way companies with field teams do business, since they bring numerous benefits and are becoming increasingly affordable to implement. A state-of-the-art field force automation solution should provide your company the following: A free, cross-platform mobile app for your field pe...

Retail Merchandising Software

Today every CPG and FMCG company can significantly improve merchandising performance by implementing some type of software solution for paperless data collection. There is a lot of merchandising software solutions on the market that can provide your business with paperless data collection capabilities to improve the effectiveness of your merchandisers in the field and reduce operational costs. Once you’ve decided to automate your merchandising activities in the field, the next step is to choose the right type of merchandising software . To maximize the benefits of going paperless and make the process of rolling out a merchandising software solution smooth, opt for up-to-date mobile merchandising applications that operate common software platforms like Android and iOS and are extremely easy to deploy. Here at VisitBasis, we’ve designed a complete merchandising system that integrates with each operation in your business. VisitBasis merchandising software is designed to me...

Sales Force Management System

Sales force performance can be significantly improved using some type of software program. Today there are plenty of programs and applications on the market that can provide your business with sales force automation capabilities such as customer management, field force activity tracking, sales pipeline management, sales reporting, sales management and etc. Most sales force automation software solutions provide the capability to define and track sales stages, sales milestones, activities and more. Once you’ve decided to automate your sales force the next step is to choose sales force automation software. To find one that works for your company and avoid getting overwhelmed by the capabilities of the program you have to identify your specific needs and requirements first . Here at VisitBasis we’ve focused on delivering a system that integrates completely with every process in your business. VisitBasis is all-in-one software solution that provides the most complete set of t...