{"id":1009,"date":"2007-06-18T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/a-state-of-the-industry-speech-mobile-devices\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T14:00:03","slug":"a-state-of-the-industry-speech-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/a-state-of-the-industry-speech-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"A State Of The Industry Speech &#8211; Mobile Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CareerJournal.com pens an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.careerjournal.com\/~r\/wsj\/career_journal\/~3\/125747970\/20070618-srivastava.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mobile Workers Tie In With Hand-Held Devices<\/a>.&nbsp; I hope most of the information in the article is familiar to you since mobile PDA phones are more than a passing fancy.&nbsp; The article reads like a state of the industry address with a couple of notable points.<\/p>\n<p>First, the sheer size of this industry (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are an estimated <strong>50 million &#8220;mobile&#8221; workers<\/strong> in the U.S., those who have no desk or spend more than 25% of their time outside the office, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan, a business-research and consultancy firm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Catch that?&nbsp; No desk &#8211; totally mobile.&nbsp; This new format is more than a trend.&nbsp; We are working on positions in multiple states and the distributed sales force (salespeople living in the territory) is&nbsp;our clients&#8217; most common approach.&nbsp; Obviously, this new structure requires sales managers with different skill sets.<\/p>\n<p>Even the U.S. government is getting into the act:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. government also plans to connect its mobile workers to central databases through hand-held devices. Last year, the Census Bureau spent $600 million to buy 500,000 hand-held devices, equipped with technology provided by Microsoft and Harris Corp. Census employees will use the devices instead of paper forms to record data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a small company, we are highly dependent upon our mobile devices to handle multiple communication channels while we are on the road.&nbsp; If you do not offer such options to your salespeople, now is the time to offer them these common tools.&nbsp; Your team&#8217;s efficiency will improve dramatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CareerJournal.com pens an article titled Mobile Workers Tie In With Hand-Held Devices.&nbsp; I hope most of the information in the article is familiar to you since mobile PDA phones are more than a passing fancy.&nbsp; The article reads like a state of the industry address with a couple of notable points. First, the sheer size of this industry (my emphasis): There are an estimated 50 million &#8220;mobile&#8221; workers in the U.S., those who have no desk or spend more than 25% of their time outside the office, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan, a business-research and consultancy firm. Catch that?&nbsp; No desk &#8211; totally mobile.&nbsp; This new format is more than&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/a-state-of-the-industry-speech-mobile-devices\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-gh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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