The iPad Will Change Forever the Way Territorial Marketing is Executed

Many people may not understand the full impact ofsalesperson, or someone in the services business, but
the Apple iPad, but let me tell you it will be significantI know for a fact that it is. Indeed, if I had had a
for those businesses that do lots of Territorialhandful of iPads from Apple ten years ago, I could
Marketing. Consider if you will companies thathave easily doubled the sales for my company if not
distribute a product to local retailers. Using the iPadtripled them.
they will be able to have a map of where they are,You see, like many other aggressive marketing
and any business they turn towards, their locationcompanies, our company had what we called a "Blitz
and the location of the building they are looking at willTeam" and this team went out prior to us
have GPS points, allowing the user to have thisestablishing a franchised outlet, and the team did
information.sales in that territory and marketed for the new
As the user looks at a building they will instantlyfranchisee. Typically, our Blitz Team would have 4 to
know the number of employees the business has,6 people on it and they would go out and do
the SIC code the business is engaged in, and howpersonal sales calls. If we had the iPads, we could
much that business makes annually. They will alsohave saved time by only hitting those companies in
have the names of all of the key executives whoour exact target market on the first go around
work at the company. And, depending if theWe could come back later, and then hit the
company is publicly traded or not, they will have allsecondary potential customers, and then the third
the Edgar information online, all at their fingertips.best potential clientele. We'd know exactly which of
They will know if they should stop into that companyour products and services they might want, based on
for a sales call, click a button to save that companytheir size, number of employees, and annual income.
to their sales list file, and their favorites, or to shootWe could have done everything that we did three
off an e-mail instantly.times as fast and three times as successful. Thus,
In fact the user of the iPad will be online using 4Gwe could have opened new franchised units at six
wireless, and all this information can be used to helptimes a greater pace than we had in the past.
them in their sales and marketing. Now you might notYes, I'm serious!
think this is important information to a route