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How to Generate and Assign Sales Leads

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

Every business has a sales manager whose job is to grow sales. The challenge of generating the right sales leads is critical to the process of successful sales growth.  In sourcing those sales leads, matching selected leads with the right … Continue reading →

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A MapBusinessOnline Workflow for Your Consideration

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

MapBusinessOnline includes various tools designed to help you develop a business mapping workflow. The critical tools I use when developing business maps are: Map & Data Edit Properties – Use these tools to adjust the look and feel of your … Continue reading →

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Gathering & Exporting ZIP Codes by County

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

Every couple of months, here at Business Mapping Software Central, we get this inquiry via chat or email, “How do I export all of the ZIP codes bounded by a county or a set of counties?” This is entirely doable … Continue reading →

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Adding Relevant Value to Your Territory Map Project

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

Territory mapping is perhaps MapBusinessOnline’s most popular and powerful feature. Thousands of users apply MapBusinessOnline toward territory creation out of ZIP codes, counties, and other map alignment layers. Territories define areas of accountability and create market analysis zones. MapBusinessOnline supports … Continue reading →

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MapBusinessOnline Pro – Driving Time & Distance Analysis for Sales & Marketing

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

MapBusinessOnline Pro offers driving time and distance analysis, providing marketing managers with helpful segmentation options and location-based perspectives. Turn to MapBusinessOnline business mapping software to geographically organize your sales organization. Savvy retailers and direct mail marketers must maintain a massive … Continue reading →

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How to Annotate Map Projects Using MapBusinessOnline

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

A few years ago, I wrote a blog about hiking behind my house in an undeveloped York County, Maine, area. Last week a woman from Limerick, Maine, a town next door to Cornish, found my blog and commented on my … Continue reading →

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Favorite MapBusinessOnline Capabilities by Industry

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

MapBusinessOnline has a very horizontal customer application profile. By that, I mean our business mapping software is used by a broad cross-section of industry types. Businesses of all sorts use MapBusinessOnline. We track certain industries more closely than others, allowing … Continue reading →

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Supporting the Franchisor Sales Process with Map Visualizations

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

Franchise businesses are generally intimately connected to geography. McDonald’s fast food restaurants, one of the world’s most successful franchise businesses, consider several location-related factors when contemplating the construction of a brand new store. Business mapping software provides tools that enable … Continue reading →

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Why Should a Business Invest in Business Mapping Software?

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

There are many reasons why businesspeople invest in business mapping software, GIS, or location-based tools for solutions to common and sometimes advanced problems. Let’s take a turn in the business garden, shall we? Stagnant Business Growth Grow or die – … Continue reading →

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How to Balance Territories Using MapBusinessOnline

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Geoffrey Ives

Sales, service, and franchise territory maps provide brick-and-mortar and cloud-based businesses with a geographic structure upon which to build a business. Using MapBusinessOnline, these territory areas are sometimes created from scratch by gathering ZIP codes or counties together using a … Continue reading →

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