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Everyone, below is an email I received from a P4P Premium Member in South Africa.  I have a few points to make but would like to hear from other in reference to Deans email:  Please fee free to post your thoughts!

 

Morning Art

 

Hope you are well?

 

I’m busy investigating the pros and cons of issuing my sales reps with tablets. I basically want to try and increase performance and productivity.

 

How do I want to do it, this is mostly for when they are out in the field or my non office based sales reps (mobile):

1.       Make exist customer information available and updating and adding new businesses.

2.       Make appointments available and the attending of same.

3.       Make leads available for immediate follow up and sales reps can send leads back to the office for other products.

4.       Route planning and guidance to businesses physical address (shortest route, )

5.       Quote while in front of the customers

6.       Complete the credit application (later also the rental agreement if allowed by law).

7.       Company and product presentations to customers, etc.

8.       And many more advantages?

 

Most of these will be made available on maps in order to see your customers, opposition, etc on the maps.

 

Do you know of something like this? I’m running my own in house database, so I basically need to add some functionality and the maps.

 

You are welcome to post this if you think it might add value.

 

Thanks

 

Kind regards

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Toshiba offers the Encore Win 8.1 tablet in a 7" form factor at around $299.00.  Unfortunately, a 7" form factor is a little small for Win 8.1 to easily navigate without the use of a stylus.  I would wait until 10" Win 8.1 tablets begin to appear in the marketplace.

 

Also, keep in mind that tablets from all vendors are really only devices designed for consuming information.  They are not that great for creating information.

Just another thought, do your sales people do site audits? if so something like In-Map might be worth considering (especially if you use FM Audit etc for a Data source )

 

http://www.in-map.com/Pages/Ac...n.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f

 

Personally I just carry a very small form factor laptop as there are some shortfalls to tablets in terms of what they can run and our back end systems, file access etc and cost isn't so much of an issue

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