CPG KPIs & Reporting

3 Reports That Every Manager Should Be Asking Their Employees For

For small businesses and entrepreneurs, it can be hard to appease the larger retail chains who require detailed reports and constant inventory management from their suppliers. CPG companies fighting..

Technology

New Software for Employees? The 4 Steps for a Smooth Transition

After careful consideration and a potentially large investment, you have finally decided to adopt some new software that will allow you to remain competitive in your industry.

So what’s the problem?

Accountability

Employee Accountability: Not Picture Perfect

For managers wanting to monitor employees in the field, it may seem that a quick photo documenting a client visit or displaying the day’s work is enough proof. Smartphones and tablets are now..

Accountability

5 Reasons Why Field Representatives Should Want To Be Monitored

Angry or confused faces. 

That’s what most team managers and business owners can expect to see when they first introduce a field representatives monitoring system. After seeing the proof that careful..

Team Building

5 Mistakes Team Leaders are Making with Mobile Employees

With the immense growth of online business in the past decade, businesses have shown a large rise in the number of employees who work remotely from home or in the field. While the number of..

Territory Management

Divide and Conquer: 3 Methods for Territory Management

For any business that works out in the field, setting up sales territories for representatives to operate within is essential. To develop a territory management system where representatives are not..

Technology

Paper vs Mobile Forms: The Unbelievable Hidden Cost of Paper

Ka-ching! Ka-ching! Ka-ching!

Hear that noise?

That’s the sound of hundreds, or more probably, thousands of dollars that your business is throwing away every year on paper forms. For small..

Technology

4 Fantastic Ways To Measure Mobile Employee Performance

When team leaders are not with their field teams, it can be difficult to measure certain aspects of work performance. Metrics such as customer engagement and territory coverage are important to..

Packaging

3 Beverage Packaging Cues to Take From Nantucket Nectars

The beverage market can prove incredibly difficult to break into for small businesses and entrepreneurs. There exists titans of industry in nearly every major area of the beverage world from soft..