By Kostas Panagias, on July 27th, 2010%
You can use it to do amazing things and get a sound competitive advantage in sales and marketing
You spent several hundreds of Euros (or dollars) in the latest Smartphone model; perhaps an iPhone, a Blackberry, a HTC (like me!), etc. You have huge touch screens, lots of apps, fancy graphics and interfaces and you showoff. Admit it! One of the reasons of that purchase was just for showing off.
But you can certainly use your latest gadget to help you with your work. I mean REAL help. It’s way more than sending emails and having your contacts organized. Those are for kids. You can do great things and perhaps the most important application installed in your Smartphone is excel (for Windows Mobile or similar products for other platforms).
I will concentrate mainly in sales administration and help, but certainly you can use it for other things too (such as marketing functions, production functions, etc.). After all, we are all salesmen!
Let’s start!
Continue reading You and your Smartphone!
By Kostas Panagias, on May 20th, 2010%
A post, a little bit unusual to what I am used to blog about, but still relevant and fascinating to write about.
Scientists have announced a breakthrough in “artificial life”. More specifically, they have succeeded in copying an existing bacterial genome and used it to create a “synthetic cell”. Applications are endless. Just a few very apparent . . . → Read More: Synthetic Living Cell: A major milestone
By Kostas Panagias, on February 10th, 2010%
The recession in economy has squeezed the prices down. Low-end products are now in great demand. That’s bad news for high-end manufacturers & customers, quality and technology advancement in general. Fortunately, value-for-money oriented manufacturers, who don’t have to be low-end necessarily, can also succeed.
Retail prices have also been vastly decreased causing a lot of competition among . . . → Read More: Prices and Crisis
By Kostas Panagias, on April 18th, 2008%
This week Fourlis Trade: the company that trades the products of Samsung in Greece, launched the new LCD’s series for 2008: Series 4, 5 & 6.
The new TV’s are owesome and we expect to continue being leaders in TV market & hope to increase our market share! Currently we have 30+% market share and we constantly . . . → Read More: Samsung’s New LCDs
By Kostas Panagias, on April 10th, 2008%
A proper stock management in retail stores and in wholesalers is something that can play a major role in the development of a product category and in the whole economy in general.
Just imagine this: Many retailers find hard to sell the old and outdated models (bad stock) so that wholesalers have to wait before they . . . → Read More: Stock Management
By Kostas Panagias, on April 7th, 2008%
Interactive marketing is going to have a great future. I reason this statement in the current and upcoming technologies and media use and consumption. Moreover there are many examples of some quite successful campaigns based on interactive marketing.
Interactive marketing is using mainly the internet as the interactivity platform but this is not necessary. Interactive uses the . . . → Read More: Interactive marketing and its shiny future
By Kostas Panagias, on March 24th, 2008%
My job involves a lot of reporting. For that reason I have purchased a Pocket PC for convenience, fast data entry, accuracy, calculations and paperless organization of business files and contacts. My productivity increased vastly because of that little “gadget” some may consider as a luxury. But for my work is a must and I figured . . . → Read More: IT really helps!
By Kostas Panagias, on December 22nd, 2007%
http://tinyurl.com/2nvy22
Visit the above link to see a new advertising medium: Magic Mirrors.
Magic Mirrors are advertising frames that when you get close to them they transform to a mirror. They are ideal for bars, restaurants, toilets . . . → Read More: New ways to advertise: “Magic Mirrors”
By Kostas Panagias, on November 22nd, 2007%
How would you like an extra 4,95 GB hard disk? You can download Gmail Drive shell extension (here) and have an additional 4,95 GB to use. Each file is stored in the inbox with the subject “GMAILFS: /” (there is one space between : and /). You can easily find all your files with a search . . . → Read More: Free hard Drive…
By Kostas Panagias, on November 7th, 2007%
Visit the link below, it’s a shocking video about pedophilia on Second Life. You can alternatively focus your mouse on the link and view/preview the video on the snap shot window that will appear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAzoBfSQA2s
P.S.: I don’t know why, but embed youtube videos ruin the layout of the blog . . . → Read More: A bad aspect of the internet…
