Your outside sales fleet can be the life blood of your business. They are the movers and shakers that get people excited to buy and use the products or services you create and offer. They can also be a huge drain on your business if you don’t watch what they’re doing day after day carefully. These are just a few ways your business can benefit by using GPS tracking for outside sales fleets.

Protect Routes

Regardless of your promise to protect routes for your sales professionals, sometimes, aggressive members of your team will cross lines to seal the deal. You can help prevent this from happening by protecting territories with GPS tracking that alerts you when drivers are straying from their assigned routes.

Learn Where Your Reps are Spending their Most Time

Sometimes it is specific customers that require the greatest time and effort and at other times, it’s a matter of sale staff taking care of other business on company time. Either way, you can use GPS to learn where your team members are spending the bulk of their time outside the office and how well it benefits your overall business plan for them to do so.

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With growing concerns about a potential global threat stemming from the Marburg virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has asked the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency to pony up funds for bat trackers.

The Marburg virus is a close cousin to Ebola, one of the more terrifying viruses widely recognized by those in scientific communities. It is also carried by bats. When transmitted from bats to humans, the illness is lethal in nine out of ten victims when some dying within a single week.

There are two reasons scientists are so eager to study the nocturnal movements of bats. One is in hope of preventing the spread of Marburg and the other is in hopes of making progress for more effective Ebola treatments. The belief is that since the diseases are so closely related, making progress on one disease can boost progress on managing the other.

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Before you buy GPS trackers for your business or personal needs, it’s a good idea to explore your options and learn more about the various types of GPS trackers on the market today, such as these: Read the rest of this entry »