My business is treading on the future. We're going mobile/visual interactive with a direct connect. Floor sales people will communicate real time with web and other customers. They'll broadcast and sell product real time. Techno wise it's easy to do but from a sales person standpoint, it's creating new protocols and selling technique applications.

Presentation will be everything. It looks to me like the future holds the reinvention of the salesman. The best presentation wins. It's going to be a fun and hopefully profitable experiment.

Which brings me to the future. What do you see ahead for the fields you work or worked in?

Go for it

Beam Me Up Scotty!!

fltsfshr

 

I volunteer to give kind human experience and help. That will always be a needed part of life.

 

I assume this is an added feature and not replacing your in-store experience?

 

It's something that my sales staff started doing with their personal phones. It's grown from there. Our 800 numbers are busier than direct web sales. People aren't trusting web security.

We have found more and more of our clientele using smart phones. 10 years ago they could barely find email.

There are some changes coming to google search engines. Most web sites will be forced to better their position in google by becoming mobile friendly. It's a project I started a few years ago we called the Magic Mirror. It wasn't feasible then, this is a new approach. As we deal in fashion, there's a lot of related item selling and cross line wardrobing. Our people are trained to do that but it doesn't work on a website.

We're accommodating them with display lighting, fixed holders for the I phones and the physical use of them to make their presentation smoother. Suddenly it's a human to human experience once again. That's what I find to be the interesting part.

fltsfshr

 

I predict more change to come in healthcare. And it won't be good for most of us. (Hope I'm wrong.)

One exception to my pessimism, though: I think we will make some dramatic strides in cancer treatment over the next ten years, with more tightly targeted agents that make the current generation of chemo drugs look like blood-letting therapy. Now if only we could do something really meaningful in cardiology.

 

Amen to that!

 

I own an environmental services firm. (See my sig.) The future for me seems to include regulators worrying about vapor intrusion from subsurface contamination to occupied indoor air space. More and more need for indoor air sampling and laboratory analysis. Everyone looks to Califdornia Humah Health Screening Levels (CHHSLs), which, among other things, approximate an increased cancer risk of one in a million cases over a lifetime of exposure.

 

How are you doing Raptor feeling better I hope?

 

My last career was in fiber optic components. I watched the promise of this tech become reality with very high-speed communications, which has given the bandwidth necessary to provide data for pretty much everything from on-line commerce to remote "doctors on demand". It was fun being part of an evolution in how we all communicate.
I believe that drinking water will become the next "must defend" commodity. I have become very involved with our town's environmental commission as well as other community based clean water initiatives..

 

How about curing the common cold?