Do you use an iPad to assist you in selling or to follow-up with customers? Would you use this technology if it existed?

Definitely. It is an ideal device to do follow-ups as well as showing new products for sale. It is the best device for marketing, sales, and advertising.

I work for Blue Orange Apps in Panama City, Panama. We made iPO.

It's an app that a bunch of people with sales reps teams, tradeshows, wholesale and retail business have been using. iPO - Catalog & Sales. It's for iPad. It has a bunch of features a lot of people have found useful, such as:

• Freemium model - very few, or no other apps do this - that I’ve seen. We actually just implemented this to get word of mouth out - like Dropbox did.
• Very quick to set up. Just fill an Excel sheet and drag product pictures into your Dropbox
• Pictures are displayed upfront and products are given priority, like a Catalog app should be. No head-akes setting up a bunch of other stuff
• Really easy to integrate with any CRM through a flat file API - products, clients and orders all importable and exportable with CSV files
• The app is pretty quick, navigation-wise.
• Categories, subcategories and even multifiltered subsubcategories
• Global product search
• Camera barcode scanning - we’ll be looking into laser barcode scanning soon
• Interface is really intuitively designed
• Purchase orders are sent to client and back end office
• You can sell offline - products are all local on the iPad - this is critical
• You can take client and sales rep signature with really good digital signature technology

That is neat!

How do you follow up with customers using your iPad? Are you referring to a retail setting?