Territory Management

Travel is a large part of a sales rep’s life. When it comes to outside sales, reps often find themselves visiting clients on a daily basis.  As a sales rep, it is important to manage your life while traveling. Mobile devices make it easier to increase your productivity with apps. There are a variety of cool apps for sales reps available to help with: Travel - Use apps to book your flights on-the-go. Conveniently access travel details directly on your phone. Hotels - Apps make it easy to find the best hotel near clients and airports. Pull up booking…

A week of hectic travel leaves you tired and frustrated.  Here are three steps to get organized and ensure success on your next sales trip: 1. Plan Ahead In order to get ahead of the competition, you need to be efficient.  By creating optimal routes and sticking to them, you'll steer clear of stressful situations during the week.  Cutting your driving by 20% means crushing your quota while everyone else is still on the road.  And since you can store your routes in an iCal, Outlook, or Google calendar, you'll know exactly what's on tap every day of the trip. 2. Track your Progress You shouldn't count…

I hypothesize that maps become fancier in response to the need people had for them. This seems simple enough, but a while ago, it was unclear to my simple mind what came first: the demand for a more encompassing map software or the map software itself? If we take a brief look at the history of maps, we can discover hundreds of years of mapmaking for the sake of convenience. People made maps for commerce, for astrology and agriculture, to map out where God was blowing his mighty winds (this one is my favorite actually). 

If you have sales routing software, you are already saving gas, time and money.  Now that these are taken care of, it’s time to talk about checking in with clients.  Badger Maps’ check-in feature keeps track of a number of important components all in the same place as your sales routing optimization. Here are four fantastic reasons why you should use check-ins: 1. You can set the type of check-in you made You can choose what kind of visit you made to the account.  The optimum visit to a customer is in person of course, but other types of…