Tablets are now more then just toys for big girls and boys. For business these devices are allowing us to move to a whole new level of productivity and increased revenue. Dead are the days of invoicing from the office, returning to your desk to check on your sales flow funnel. iPad, and Android Tablets - these are the tools of the new millennium, We are seeing binders disappear from board rooms replaced by the lighter, cleaner, tablet designs that allow board to work together seamlessly together or overseas. These are not million dollar devices and require little to no training to operate so we can all use them to improve our businesses. There are many areas where you will see increased benefit by having a tablet over a laptop:
Weight Tablets weigh a fraction of your current laptop technology, they are slimmer light-weight and can easily fit into a briefcase, backpack or other carrying device.Power management Average battery life on a 6 cell laptop is 4 hours of constant work. This does not even equal out to be a full work day. The average tablet will last between 8 - 10 hours of work. Also there is no power up on a tablet, no long loading process - you can leave them on in standby mode without killing your overall battery life.
Connectivity WI-FI, 3G, 4G they are all options with Tablets. I currently am sporting the Samsung Galaxy 7" tablet and use it on both 3G and WI-Fi; the benefit here is that your data plan will not need to be expensive, all heavy downloading or media consumption can be done on a WI-Fi connection. 3G capability is always connected and gives you access in a moments notice. There is nothing I like more then being able to show a client something important on the web within a few seconds.
Professional Appearance These devices are slim and very nice to look at. They are not heavy and cumbersome. they are easily handed off to a customer or partner.
Time Savings, Increased Productivity, Increased Revenue Time is a commodity that when spent cannot be returned, we as business professionals need to streamline as much of our day as possible. We will find time savings with the apps, constant power on feature and general design a modern tablet provides. Increased productivity and revenue go hand in hand. When you take tablet technology and apply the ability to invoice from a job site you have successfully reduced your invoice turn around to 0 and removed unneeded expense at head office. This works remarkably well with contracting companies who have workers using a item record sheet and then invoicing from that. Nothing is as easy to remember as something that just happened. No more lost inventory, nothing be missed during invoicing and time being invoiced out correctly.
