GPS Tracking ROI

I got a nice note from the owner of this site  a few days back.  Instamapper.com  I’m impressed with what he’s already accomplished and his future goals.  Frankly, GPS tracking of vehicles does not really cost that much when you look at the return on your investment .. I used to sell tracking systems with a promise that they would pay off in less than a year … and I had clients who got back three times their investment in 3 months … a pretty hefty ROI (Return on their Investment).

But those facts aside, it does cost something and if you are a plumber, a garage door service corporation, an independent house cleaner or salesman (you don’t think even a one-man band can profit from GPS tracking?  You haven’t thought it through, yet) then you can not or will not free up the funds to make an investment in something you don’t know by your own experience will pay off.

Also, many companies engaged in selling commercial tracking systems can’t server the one vehicle, two vehicle, five vehicle market … they’d like to, but the systems are becoming more and more of a commodity and it costs as much to sell one as it does to sell 100.

Enter Instamapper and an entirely affordable, complete under your own control, nearly free way to track any small fleet.  You might even own the right cell phone already, if not, you can buy one here, cheap.

Here’s a link to the demo which shows off the site’s features quite well.

Here’s a step by step guide that tells you how to get set up.

All in all, I rate this one pretty highly.  I don’t see a lot of business plan as yet, but I know there is one, and I can see basically all benefit and no real drawbacks.

This is an excellent site to "get your feet wet" and prove to yourself that GPS tracking will work for your business.  Later, you may want to consider several things I have noted from experience:

• Cheap cell phones don’t usually offer very good tracking resolution.
• Very fast tracking rates are good, except that over time the data collected becomes too huge to handle, you should think about graduating to a more sophisticated system algorithm in the future, such as these folks.
• Your data will not stay on the server a long time, especially for tax and liability purposes, you might want to set up a procedure to save it while it is ‘fresh’

However none of these cautions should chase you away from having a look here … a fresh, new useful idea to help you bring home more of the money you earn .. or keep your teen safe.