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Field Team Management Software Through the Eyes of Your Field Reps

The reasons why the managers should like field team management software are obvious. Fast and simple scheduling, real-time monitoring of field activities, powerful analytic capabilities and streamlined data workflow allow managers to perform their duties in the most efficient manner, freeing up time to make better decisions. The problems usually begin when it comes to the adoption of a field team management system by field representatives. There are different reasons why they may not like the new order of things, but nevertheless the problem must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise the whole idea of field service automation is at risk. The most common reason why companies face resistance from field reps, when implementing field team management software, is the fear of changes. The unwillingness to be constantly monitored and controlled also defines field reps’ negative attitude to field team management software. The only ...

VisitBasis Retail Execution: Standing Out From The Competition

Achieving efficient retail performance requires a retail execution solution that streamlines data workflow and fosters decision-making. Here at VisitBasis, we’ve focused on delivering a system that integrates completely with every process in field sales. VisitBasis is a mobile data collection and field representative management software for businesses with field merchandising, field sales and store audits operations. Besides the fact that VisitBasis is the only free retail audit and store execution software on the market, our software solution also stands out from the competition due to the unique set of features that makes retail execution a breeze. So, when deciding which software is the best for your field service management, consider if it has the following features to get a useful application. All-in-one, niche-integrated solution – VisitBasis is designed to meet the market demand for scheduling field sales activities including CRM, processing orders, reporting...

Three Ways to Eliminate Time Wasters in the Field

Wasting time is a recipe for losing efficiency within your field service management. Productivity of field reps, namely sales performance, is a key driver for improving your company’s bottom line and a larger market share. Therefore the main goal of field team management is to maximize the time field reps spend selling and to minimize time spent on traveling between locations, filling out paper forms, making useless phone calls and visits to the office.   The good news is that today there are plenty of sales tools designed to increase your field reps’ productivity and eliminate major time wasters in the field. Using field service management software for standard mobile devices, we all are already used to, allow field team managers to effectively organize and control field teams, and provides essential tools for field reps to complete deals as quickly as it’s possible. The major time wasters in the field, like poor planning, incomplete deals and traveling between locatio...

Three Ways for Field Team Managers to Optimize Retail Execution

Managing field teams is a very challenging activity when all the workers are constantly on the go. The main challenge is dealing with many people, at many different locations, bringing in a lot of information on many products. Field team managers have to look through big amounts of data to make sure that all the checks were performed properly or even manually transfer data from paper reports to corporate database by themselves. As they become overwhelmed with more and more data workflow they simple don’t have time and enthusiasm to analyze trends to make strategic decisions. Fortunately up-to-date mobile technologies allow field team managers to integrate tablets and smartphones into the business process to improve the efficiency of field teams performance. Field team management software is designed to simplify data management and streamline operations in the field. Let’s consider in what ways field team management software can improve the productivity of the whole process. ...