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3 Techniques for Sales Managers to Increase Sales Reps’ Productivity

One of the most important characteristics highly effective sales managers have in common is that they constantly influence sales reps to improve sales skills. This is the way the top-performing sales managers create sales teams that believe in continuous self-improvement in order to achieve personal and company's goals. A certain types of software solutions for field sales and mobile applications for sales reps can facilitate building of an efficient sales team. Below you'll find some tips on how a field team manager can help to improve sales skills of outside reps and achieve a more efficient sales process . Hope it works! Ensure your sales reps know the product they are selling. To sell effectively, a sales rep should perfectly understand the product, know all it's features and be able to present the product to customers. Field sales applications for tablets and smartphones provide sales reps with mobile access to product catalog, so they can access ...

3 Reasons to Stop Using Paper Forms for Retail Data Collection

Mobile technology has significantly transformed many of business processes and retail data collection is not an exception. Yet, many field service-based companies still rely on paper forms to collect retail data because they are not interested in messing with new technologies and time-consuming field reps training. Although paper forms are considered to be cheap and time-proven tool for retail data capture, it today’s mobile-driven world using paper can cost you much more than that the cost of paper itself. Reduced productivity, increased risk of data errors, and no real-time data access put you at risk of being outdone by more tech-savvy competitors, who use mobile data collection tools with analytic capabilities to develop their marketing strategies.   There are many advantages that mobile data collection has over paper forms. For field reps, who are permanently on the go, having mobile tools for paperless data collection means making their job less manual...

Field Sales Management – From Paper Forms and Phone Calls to Smartphones and Cloud Storage

Today with the development of mobile technology many business operations become less manual and more efficient. Field sales, as activities that take place outside the office, especially benefit from mobile data collection tools . Mobile device implementation and mobile access to corporate data allow field reps to work from everywhere, which makes field sales an increasingly affordable option for CPG companies. Companies adapt mobile technologies into sales process to enhance productivity and improve the bottom line. Paperless order taking significantly reduces the costs of data collection, shortens sales cycle, and motivate sales reps by making their job more rewarding. To make sales process a breeze, VisitBasis offers companies an all-in-one mobile application for field sales designed to manage, schedule, and monitor field team activities in real-time. VisitBasis field sales application is the ultimate way to overcome such challenges as enlarging customer base and ...

Using Mobile for Retail Merchandising Activities

With the development of mobile devices the growing number of companies take advantage of mobile technologies to improve merchandising efficiency and increase revenue. Present-day mobile merchandising solutions are affordable and easy to use, which makes their implementation a must in our mobile fast moving world. VisitBasis merchandising software allows merchandisers to easily collect store data, performing retail visits and merchandising inspections using just their tablets and smartphones. VisitBasis merchandising application is designed for Android and iOS tablets and smartphones and provides a lot of advantages for merchandisers and their managers. Merchandising Software: Key Features for Managers While merchandisers perform data collection activities on their mobile devices, eliminating paperwork, their managers and supervisors are able to: Design task templates assigned to field merchandising teams to get the exact information needed from retail locations Man...