5 Essential Tools For Mobile Business


Cutting the wires and going fully mobile can open up new opportunities for your business, but it also means you'll need to invest in tools to help your mobile workforce keep working on the go. Here are five you can't do without.



Laptops

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Laptops

The craze right now is netbooks, and those ultraportable mini-machines are great as secondary devices. But to truly untether your business from the wired world, you need full-blown computing power that's portable. That means investing in powerful notebook computers that walk the line between brawny performance and lightweight portability.

Of course, you should consider job function when selecting the appropriate hardware for everyone on your staff. The salesperson who spends all day pounding the pavement needs something light enough not to strain a rotator cuff, yet tough enough to withstand a few drops here and there. By contrast, some of your back-office staff may only move their notebooks once per day (if that), so you can provide them with computing power without paying premium prices for portability.

Standardizing around a single OS and hardware vendor will ease ongoing support and maintenance costs and make sure every laptop has a compatible wireless network card.

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