Gillian McCarthy

According to the Insurance Information Institute, insurance fraud accounts for approximately 10% of the property insurance industry’s incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses each year. These fraudulent claims are most often catastrophe-related property fraud. In these instances, the fraud comes from inflated or opportunistic claims. For example, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 resulted in insurance fraud where claims were made for expensive home appliances that were never purchased or people were making claims for damage that never occurred. This has led...

Here's the scenario You're an experienced sales analyst. You analyze the field sales team performance using CRM reports, excel sheets, pivot tables, charts, and graphs. It takes a significant amount of time to convert raw data into meaningful findings with actionable outcomes. In spite of this, the Sales Director wants that information yesterday. You can’t get him the reports fast enough but they’re not quite answering the questions he’s asking. You need a new perspective on the data and your...

If you run a field sales team, you will likely understand the benefits that effective territory management will bring to your team's productivity and profitability, but let's recap quickly anyway. Improved Customer Coverage Reduced Territory Encroachment Increased Productivity Reduced Travel Time & Associated Costs Increased Sales Volume/Value So how do we build great sales territories? The simple answer is to make data-driven decisions. Not always easy to do, so here are 5 steps to guide you. Step 1: Analyze Current...

Managing a large field sales team comes with several challenges. One of those challenges is ensuring your team is both efficient and productive. If one or more of your field sales reps are struggling to hit their quotas, it is usually down to wasted time or effort, in other words, lack of efficiency. You need to address this quickly and continuously and we're here to give you a few practical tips for creating and managing an efficient field sales team....

At eSpatial, we spend our time ensuring that all of our customers see value from their use of our mapping software. Each customer has a dedicated Customer Success Manager that trains and supports them to achieve their mapping objectives and success with eSpatial. When you’re saving hours of time with a quick, easy, and powerful mapping solution for in-depth analysis and reporting, or your field sales team are managing to visit more clients thanks to quicker prioritization of accounts and...

eSpatial for Salesforce is built to give you the full power of a complete mapping software solution within your Salesforce Org. With seamless data loading of common Salesforce objects such as Leads and Opportunities, as well as Custom Objects, geographically visualizing and analyzing your data could not be easier. For all you need to know and more, check out our brand new how to guide on getting up and running with eSpatial mapping software for Salesforce users. View How To Guide

There are many benefits to using route planning software to plan your team's sales visits, such as reducing time spent traveling and increasing the time spent with the customer. Once you know that you want your team to use optimized routes on a daily basis, one of the hardest tasks is ensuring that you're choosing the best route planning software for your organization. We believe that eSpatial is the best choice, whether you have a sales team of 10 or...