Sales Mapping Tools For The Overworked Sales Manager
Sales managers today are a blend between a coach
, an operations expert, a business process consultant, a marketing leader and key company presenter. To do all this adequately, you need to have some great tools that can keep you organized and deliver quick results.
Territory Maps 2.0 is a recently released territory mapping and management software tool from a growing company called VueWise. They have a very interesting tool that enables a sales manager to map their sales reps into territories and export them to PowerPoint. What is unique about this solution is that you can manage all the reps data and quickly change the territories in a few simple clicks. I used their first version and found the product to be a good value but a bit inflexible. With this release they have added some important new features like:
Quickly Create Custom Territories: Users need to represent states and territories in either standalone or aggregate displays. The customize feature allows the user to draw and assemble territories in record time.
Add, Change or Delete Reps Quickly: The VueWise interface allows users to quickly modify territory areas and rep coverage maps to eliminate the constant rebuilding process required by other solutions.
Customize Maps with Annotations: The Customize Map option allows users the flexibility to add details before sharing with a suite of customized annotation tools so you can show clearly how your staff is aligned.
Share your Work with the Team: With the VueWise .mapx file format, user can share maps to collaborate easily and make improvements on the fly. You can share image level details via PowerPoint or jpeg formats just as easily as printing.
I have used several PowerPoint templates in the past and have found them to be a bit of a project and difficult to update and change. Other drawing packages like Smartdraw are pretty good but are too expensive and are only a marginal improvements over the map templates. With VueWise Territory Maps 2.0 I think I have found a solution that will save me some time and provide a good visual for my quarterly review presentation with our executive team and our key partners. You can buy Territory Maps 2.0 for $79.99 at vuewise.com, you can save $30 if you use their promotional launch code VUE-RW89-NOW.