Improve Your Contact-Base
Marketing executives, business people, professionals and brokers all work at improving their contact base. This is because with a large contact base, they stand far better in their respective professions. The more people the marketing executive knows, the more people they contact to advertise and market their products.
The higher is the number of customers that visits a business; the better will be the business income. Business persons and individuals will always be looking for means to improve their contact base to get more business, more work and income for themselves.
Then of course, there are the car, land and real estate agents who have a database of not only probable customers to approach with on their various deals. All these people hail from different walks of life and they have one thing in common: a need of improving their contact base.
When compared to life a few years back, it is not that difficult for one to improve one’s contact base. This is because improvements in technology have made it very easy for you to improve your contact base. There are mobile phones, PDAs, notebooks and smart handheld devices that you can carry along with you wherever you go.
When meeting new people, there is always a need of exchanging information like phone numbers, contact information, names, dates and notes between two people or parties. Instead of fiddling around with pens and pieces of papers, all this information can be stored in your mobile device.
With the storage of this information in these devices, there is no possibility of spelling mistakes as everything is clearly printed on the device. You can store the information in the mobile or PDA for future reference. With the information stored in the mobile, there is no possibility of the information getting lost out due to misplacement of papers.
In addition to this, you need not only store your information in your mobile device, you can also send it to your central data base in your main office or business computer for added security to the information provided to you. Once stored in your device or your main computer, there is no worry or chance of your data ever getting lost or misplaced as it is safely stored in the computers.
While working as a lawyer, businessman, broker, marketing executive or working in practically any sphere in life, it is very likely that you will have to be on the move for some reason or the other. You will have to attend seminars, meetings, conferences and family gatherings. Instead of just attending all these gatherings for the fun of it, work at improving your contact base in these gatherings.
Spend some time at these gatherings getting to know people here. If you are worried thinking that valuable and productive time is being wasted here, it is not at all true. While you work at improving your contact base, you can always conduct any unfinished or urgent work from wherever you are.
If there is any dictation work to be done, there are many Dictaphones you can carry with you out of station or to gatherings. You just have to record whatever you have to dictate, send it over to your office and have it sent to the actual recipient of the dictated work.
It is also possible to send over pod casts you have with yourself to your office, if and when you are held up at a convention or meeting. All you have to do is to download it to your handheld device, and then send it over to your office while you work at getting to meet more people.
In fact, if you are abroad at a conference, you can still send over your email, speech or PowerPoint presentation with the help of your handheld device or mobile phones. It is possible to get work done at your office today, no matter which part of the world you may be in, working at building up your clientele and contact base.
If required, it is also possible to do official transcription work with the help of an official transcriber and then send over the transcribed work to the responsible person when out of station. In other words, with mobile productivity devices, it is possible for you to have work completed in your office though you may be sitting on your laptop miles away from your office.
The blackberry phone is one such instrument that proves to be valuable in not only developing your contact base but also in helping you get as much as possible done while you are out of your office. There are different models of blackberry phones having different features available at different rates. It is up to you to choose the right device that proves to be beneficial to you to improve your contact base while helping you work even outside your workstation.
If you have to travel a lot, you can use any Global Positioning Service which is found in many mobiles, PDAs and even watches today. This software helps you save time traveling around. This is because with the GPS, you can travel across different countries and cities meeting people for an improved client base without getting lost. As long as you enter the coordinates of the start of your journey, there is no chance of your getting lost or wasting time in your quest for the enlargement of your contact base.
This proves that with today’s modern world, technological devices facilitate improvement on communication with acquaintances and customers.
