Thursday, May 28, 2009

Everyone Driving Revenues Has Left The Building!

Have you noticed, yet?

Those executives responsible for driving revenues have "left the building"?
(If yours are in their offices all day, be very afraid...)

Customers are everywhere BUT in your company's building. In a world more global everyday there are unlimited choices - the customer is driving!

And that's what's driving every company's mobility strategy - it's hard enough to "find" new customers , but you can bet they are not in your building.

That's why you can never get a meeting with the CEO, no successful VP of Sales is ever by her phone and the best sales people are never in the office anymore ...

Those product vendors that 'get this' are racking up sales - in this market! Mobile products for the constanly mobile...It's not rocket science.

Here are just a few of the brilliant products I am seeing:

Need to 'web conference' from your iPhone?
http://www.callwave.com/landing/mobileVisualVoicemail.aspx?r=NONE

Want to do SAP approvals from your Blackberry?
www.3i-consulting.com

How about speaking to your Smart Phone and having it convert to text in multiple languages, in real-time? http://www.apptek.com/


Two questions for you:

1) What mobile products are you seeing out there?

2) Are you....still in the building?

Monday, May 4, 2009

2009 - The Year Of The "Every Day" Hero

2009's economic challenges, pale in comparison to the extraordinary circumstances some Americans have found themselves in this year.

First there was Captain Sully, the Hero of The Hudson and the entire crew involved in that rescue.

Then there was Captain Phillips, who gave himself to Somali pirates in exchange for the safety of the men on his ship and the entire crew involved in that rescue.

Every day, entrepreneurs navigate the rapids of an economy no one has ever seen before. They are adopting game changing business models, filling unmet needs, hiring new employees and retraining existing ones.

Here in the midst of all the bad news being broadcast is the opportunity for the every day hero to turn this economy around. Courage and leadership are the true bail-out plan that will rescue this economy.

2009 will be "The Year Of The Every Day Hero" and the entire "crew" involved in the rescue.