Badger Maps

Route Planning Simplified

Opmerkingen: I dumped an entire csv file of cold leads from sales genie into Badger and then gave them all ratings etc. then I was able to strategically plan daily and weekly routes to maximize my sales efforts in the field and minimize drive time. This software helps make sure that you leave no stone un-turned in the sales field!

Pluspunten:

Has one of the highest stops per route allowed in the industry, most other software companies limit you to 12-16 stops per route, Badger gives you 23. Very easy to use on desktop and mobile, this app has saved me so much time on the road from planning routes to visualizing and prioritizing stops and tracking last check-in time etc. They also send you a CSV file each week of all of your activity which is excellent for going back and making sure you followed up on all actions needed.

Minpunten:

I don't really have any cons after using this software for 3 months, it's all positive!

Perfect for routing a successful territory!

Opmerkingen: This has saved me hours of driving by using badger! If you are in outside sales and don’t already know your territory or geographically challenged I would highly recommend this app!

Pluspunten:

It was very easy to upload all my accounts from an excel spreadsheet. It imported all the important information that I need to make a successful call. I’m a visual person so having the pins on the map help me tremendously. I have just moved into the state that I’m working in, so I am very unfamiliar with the territory, but this app has saved me! I needed help so I emailed customer service and they responded very quickly and very friendly!

Minpunten:

I still can’t figure out the lasso. I lasso my pins and it won’t allow me to save it and route my territory on my iPad. I will reach out to customer service, I just haven’t yet.

A godsend for a newbie in a brand new territory

Opmerkingen: I’m really grateful I had this platform when I started a new job in a ten state territory. I was going to completely new places and had an overwhelming client list that I needed to introduce myself too. I could not have gone into this experience with the sense of confidence that I had without this platform. It is terrific for organizing your time along a route. I maximize my stops and am able to plan where my hotel stays are going to be. A perfect companion if you are a traveling salesperson that is covering a wide area and is also perfect if you are pinpointing multiple calls in a busy metropolitan area. There are features I have not yet mastered. The visualize component allows you to filter and visually color code accounts. It’s awesome, but hard for me to wrap my non-techie mind around. I need to spend some time with it.

Pluspunten:

I love the routing feature. I can alter my routes on the spot while sitting in my car. It syncs perfectly with Google maps. I love that I can optimize my route and determine how many stops I can cram into a work day. The upload feature is fantastic and the system allows you to add additional client data that you can use as a sorting and color coding tool. This tool is most useful to me in my advance travel planning.

Minpunten:

The price recently went up and this was hard to convince my manager that it was worthwhile. The price increase was exorbitant on a percentage level. But, I’ve grown dependent on having this tool at my fingertips and overall, it is worth it. There are some flexibility issues when trying to create a route. I wish I could use the optimize tool with more flexibility by building in appointments and working around the set appointments. But, when I hit the optimize key, it sorts out of my appointment times. I also wish I could make some accounts “invisible” so that I could dial into a specific area with the lasso without selecting every single account.

Field Sales Essential

Opmerkingen: Essential and effective tool for field sales person. Virtual assistant and field sales management optimizer

Pluspunten:

The visual representation of my market space. The ability to canvass my market for opportunities from anywhere. The lassoing of of clients into routes automates my daily planning. The ability to capture and track key account information. The ability to track and weed out bad prospects. The ability search for specific entities and then have the visually represented by color on my map.

Minpunten:

Wish I could search my catagories - specifically to identify key names within an account. Set a reminder and date for next follow up. Offline view of current route to use when out of cell coverage that also allows for saving captured data for uploading later.

Field Sales Logistics - Smarter, Faster Targeting

Opmerkingen: Very positive so far as I go through the learning curve and customize the system to my needs. I think that is a crucial aspect of the system and it's value. Being able to customize and change how the system is used based on my dynamic and as sales opportunities present themselves. It makes me look like I am super organized and I am ok with taking the credit and silently praising Badger Maps.

Pluspunten:

The badger system provides a solution to the painful reality that plagues most field sales representatives. Planning your day/week to run your account route in a way that maximizes your results and time. No sales person enjoys spending countless hours putting together the logistics that Badger provides in a few minutes.

Minpunten:

Would like to see grid lines or be able to define quadrants.

Badger Ryder

Pluspunten:

The import function for the data. Being able to take my workbook and filter accordingly and import the addresses to see the dense areas my customers populate

Minpunten:

I would like to have different maps rhatbhave different data. Have a map that has my Customers south of the city, north of the city ect. Maybe have each map act as a sheet would in an excel workbook

Still learning and eager

Opmerkingen: Good so far but I’m not sure it’s worth the money at this point.

Pluspunten:

I like the tracking and note functions. I like that I can easily add customers and they uploaded a spreadsheet for me. I like the map feature to create a route.

Minpunten:

I have a meeting set to walk through the software more throughly. But I want to add tasks to the calander and a follow up date, by clicking on a calander to select a date. I’d love a feature where I can take a pic of a business card and assign it to a customer. I’ve also only used the app.

Badger is so Awesome!

Opmerkingen: This app saves me TONS of time and money when I'm out in the field. I'm in insurance, but it probably applies to any sales job involving travel of any kind. When you have tons of people you could see, who do you go see first? Badger resolves it with maximum efficiency. The customer service is awesome and prompt. So far, it's a great experience!

Pluspunten:

I like the fact that I can get a route put together in three or four minutes. If I get stuck out on the road and need to find something to do, I don't have to look up each address. I now have a database I can draw off of from anywhere in my territories. This thing is awesome.

Minpunten:

I don't like the fact that once I start the route, I can delete a name off of the address book, but it still keeps it in the route. If I delete it, I want it deleted off of the route, too. Also, once the route is started, I can't delete it off the route without reloading the app.

Routing our days in an easier way

Pluspunten:

Very responsive to address inputs, easy drag and drop.

Minpunten:

I feel it doesn't take into account the variables that separate small businesses from big ones. We are a small profit company and can't afford the business solution because we have a database of 600 clients. The problem is that at one given time there are only a few active clients (We're a petsitting business), which accounts for limited revenue.

Game changer

Opmerkingen: More effective routes. Less forgotten customers... More fuel economy

Pluspunten:

I was struggling creating effective routes of my 350 customer and mapping them. But no longer with Badger! Ease all my pains!

Minpunten:

The application is sometimes exiting instead of rolling back to previous page when using the back key on Android. Got to get used to it... Othwise this is splendid!

Mobile Sales review

Opmerkingen: really nice

Pluspunten:

lasso tool

Minpunten:

a “bump” button for route stops to move it to back, and a “prioritize” feature to optimize a route around a specific first stop or something

Badger is an excellent sales tool indispensable in building and maintaining my account base.

Pluspunten:

I like the lasso feature to corral a certain segment of my existing customer base in order to create the most efficient routes to see my customers and this helps save gas, time, and money. In addition, I like the ability to map out a certain geographical area for potential prospects by using the "Places" feature to pick up additional prospects on the map not yet in my database of prospects or customers. By clicking on a blue pin on Google Maps, I can see potential accounts in my industry, research them on the web prior to going into the field, and weed out potential prospects that don't meet our criteria ahead of time. Likewise, This ability is a time and money saver that assists in lowering my overall cost of acquisition.

Minpunten:

1) I use Mac devices and there seem to be features that are not ubiquitous across the Mac platform and devices. While this isn't a deal breaker, it would nice to work from any of the 3 Mac devices I use and have all bells and whistles present for a seamless transition in my processes. 2) Sometimes I forget to add specific details from a check-in and it would nice to edit or copy and paste additional information into the existing check-in without having to delete and recreate the check-in. 3) Google Pins are not lasso-able unless you add the potential prospects into Badger first. It would be nice to create a route and have the "places potential prospects" data lasso-able to add with my existing customers and prospects. 4) Weekly Checkins Reports- It would useful to have the ability to create a spreadsheet template that users can create from the data in the customer profiles specific to their needs in reporting. Instead, every week, I receive the CSV file Checkins report and then have to delete data columns and information not pertinent to my needs.

My experience has been spectacular so far. I've needed this program for a while now.

Opmerkingen: I was able to save a lot of time by just hitting the leads that are clustered closer together. This is very efficient.

Pluspunten:

Overall this software has treated me well. I love that it creates the shortest distance between routes via an optimization option. I never had to upload a excel spreadsheet and was able to get help from the customer service department. Great service. So worth every penny.

Minpunten:

A couple things to improve on would be including the removal/addition of tolls when using the maps section via google maps. This will help better the optimization when not using tolls. If there was a way to change the color of the PinDrop to synchronize with the number of times I hit that lead. So if I was able to click an option to say visited already and it turns blue for example. Now I don't have to double check on my end again everytime.

Best app I've tried

Opmerkingen: Using Badger has made me infinitely more effective in my day-to-day

Pluspunten:

The time I spend route planning now is cut to a fraction of what it was before. You can map basically as many points as you need to in one route, which I haven’t seen any other app do. I’ve been using the map filtering feature a lot as well, which helps me visualize everything and strategize a bit better. Overall super useful and time-saving.

Minpunten:

Haven't really encountered any cons, customer service is on it if you need help

Small Sales force test and review

Opmerkingen: So far it has been a very good experience. It would be nice to minor crm type functionality build into the data entry.. i.e. if one field was a yes or no result, then it would trigger another field based on the result of yes.. Sale - "Yes", then to field "what skus sold" - drop down with skus..

Pluspunten:

I like the pictorial way it shows all my accounts and provides options to capture specific data points relevant to my business. We don't use a CRM so this is helpful for our small team and reporting. They optimization of the route is a great feature as well as the overlap of search results of industry accounts i.e. accounts not on my database but perhaps another segment of my business. So far the support has been very helpful.

Minpunten:

the price is a little more than I feel it should be monthly for small teams that wouldn't utilize a crm interface. Use of the phone app is okay, however I would like to see it work on my laptop while mobile and connected to internet. When inputting data in form fields, the software doesn't technically get focus of the cursor into the fill in field. this is annoying since you use the mouse to click the form then use the mouse again to get focus of the cursor in the form then now able to type in the form field. I am thinking it should be more user friendly when entering data points for each of the accounts. When using chrome, the account location does not load.. It asks me if I own this website? g.co/streetviewerror/signature ??

From A to Z I love it.

Opmerkingen: Helps us to visit our customers on right time periods and less preperation time for it, less paperwork,shorter travel around.

Pluspunten:

When I look at the map while driving,I can easily see which prospect or customer around and act on spot in out of a daily plans.

Minpunten:

1-There is no toggle all on and off features for Places. 2-Visualize features are great with weekly check-in reports,but adding additional alert or alarm that applicable to each and every customer for remind you with their special occasions, would be nicer.It is hard to remember that if I have to celebrate customer' birthday after three days of the last visit or check out the bank account after two days to see if they paid their last invoice.With weekly report basically missing the point.

Super easy to use and was a tool that I used everyday as a sales person to maximize my time

Opmerkingen: efficiency and peace of mind

Pluspunten:

- System was extremely easy to use on the desktop or in the app - App was great to have while on the road - Print out of routes and optimizes to best possible route

Minpunten:

-I wish I could create routes for multiple days. -I would like to manually type notes into my route destination; this would be helpful if i have someone riding with me and i wanted to give them some context - I wish I could export the contacts i had in Badger along with the notes, check-ins and category

The best sales route planning app

Pluspunten:

As a sales rep with a new territory with 9 counties, Badger has been an invaluable tool for planning sales call routes and tracking check ins. Highly recommend!

Minpunten:

Calculating time from last route stop to end location

Good experience, but have only used the mapping function. i have not done anymore of the coloring.

Opmerkingen: efficiency and productivity increased

Pluspunten:

love that there is an app. Map is very ease to use. i like being able to grab certain sections of a state or catgorize certain acct types

Minpunten:

The app is a little difficult to use and i wish i could enter in more information about accounts that would print out when i print my route. wish it was easier to categorize accts

ONe of my favorite apps

Opmerkingen: This is a great app. A friend recommended it and so tried the Trial for a few weeks. Once I imported my account list and used it for a few weeks, I came to really like it. It definitely helps me be more organized in my travel to see clients. Before I’d have to find the address of where I wanted to go, then type that address into my apple maps, and then figure out where I would go next and do it again. Badger Maps gives you the ability to do all this prior to your trip or even on the fly by creating routes and then it maps you from one visit to the next very seamlessly. Badger also allows you to “log a visit” so you can keep track of every time you go to an account and even has a user friendly section for typing notes of your visit. So it acts like a mini CRM. I’m very pleased with this app and highly recommend. Not too often do you find apps that really help and this one is great. Lastly, the customer support is awesome. They actually ANSWER THEIR PHONE!!! Imagine that, they talk to you. Thank you Badger....and no I'm not a paid employee. Just a new fan.

Pluspunten:

Ease of use and customer support.

Minpunten:

Would like to have master routes by filters color coded. But this is not a con to the app, just a suggestion

Great time saving map application.

Opmerkingen: I'm having an great experience. The interface is very easy. I hope it keeps updating with great new features.

Pluspunten:

Great app for my small and medium business. Saves a lot of time by fixing routes, also keep documents, notes and other related things altogether.

Minpunten:

I didn’t find that much bad. But a few times it loads very slowly, and shows inaccurate location. And the price is little high.

My 2nd use

Opmerkingen: This is my second time using this, it was previuosly forced on me from a old employer who had no clue how to use it or benefit from it. After changing jobs I have begun to use Badger again & really like tracking my daily activity with the software.

Pluspunten:

I like the link with navigation software once a route is setup.

Minpunten:

the price point is a little high for a limited amount of contacts.

Must Have for Outside Salespeople

Opmerkingen: This program has helped me call on more customers in a fraction of the time it took me without it.

Pluspunten:

Badger maps gives you a visual of all your customers and prospects and helps you map out a route quickly and easily. It saves a ton of time and you don’t miss the chance to call on customers/prospects that you did not even realize were right around the corner of where you are.

Minpunten:

I cannot think of many cons. Their interface is intuitive and easy to figure out. I would like to see more video tutorials to help you get tips and tricks on how to beat use the program.

Would have been lost without it. Being a new sales rep in Brooklyn

Opmerkingen: Working geographically. Working smart

Pluspunten:

It helps me work geographically. Shows all my accounts let's me plan out my day and makes sure I am seeing every account

Minpunten:

I wish someone would review all features with me if I called an 800 #. I know there is more features I'm not using

I like Badger Maps very much! I use it almost every day in my business to organize my day!

Pluspunten:

I find it a benefit that I can plan my day the night before from my office computer but the next day when I'm on the road I can access the map on my phone and make changes on the fly.

Minpunten:

Would be great if I could setup a default starting and ending location. Integration with additional CRM programs could help too.