Tag Archives: MapPoint

Use Map Templates to Your Advantage

Like most software applications, Map Business Online has a save button that lets you save the business maps you’ve created. Even though Map Business Online almost always starts up displaying the map you last worked on, it’s a good practice … Continue reading

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How to Create a Map From an Excel Spreadsheet

Excel is one of the most widely used business spreadsheet programs. However, the raw data in an Excel spreadsheet can only tell you so much. Tools such as MapBusinessOnline make it easy to translate Excel documents into a visual format … Continue reading

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Five Questions You Can Answer With Demographic Mapping

Demographic data from a national census or another reputable source can provide rich context to your sales territories and related goals and objectives. When it comes to your business, raw numbers don’t tell the entire story. The more you can … Continue reading

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How to Configure Drive Time Based Territories | Map Business Online

Map Business Online provides both territory alignment tools and drive time analysis queries.  These two powerful tools can be combined to define your businesses’ territory assignments in a way that supports specific business realities.  This exercise is a core feature … Continue reading

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Using a Business Map for House Hunting

Business mapping software can sometimes be applied to your own personal business. My wife and I are considering purchasing a new home, closer to Portland, Maine. We currently live an hour away in a beautiful rural community. However, services are … Continue reading

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What to Expect When Converting from MapPoint

Over the last few years, thousands of MapPoint users have chosen Map Business Online as their MapPoint replacement. MapPoint’s cancellation has been great for business, but we realize it’s a challenge for companies that have depended on MapPoint for years, … Continue reading

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Business Mapping for the Sales Enterprise

Business people use business mapping for a plethora of applications. Business mapping software is especially helpful for sales departments.  The sales enterprise benefits tremendously from geographic views of sales activity, market composition, competitor placements, and prospect locations. Maps are the … Continue reading

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How Do I Conduct Spatial Searches Using Map Business Online?

One of the basic functions of business mapping software is to allow a user to import a spreadsheet of addresses and view them on the map. It’s powerful to visualize business addresses but, for most of us business map users, … Continue reading

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A Longitude Latitude Work Flow for Map Business Online

Sometimes your business requires latitude and longitude points to get some work done. I know this happens because customers call and ask for lat/lon support. Our top mapping software development expert, who designs our online business mapping, recently suggested this … Continue reading

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Social Media Updates

As a baby boomer, age 58 years, I do my best to stay on top of technology. Still, social media has a tendency to make my head spin.  I just set-up a Map Business Online Instagram page this weekend. We’ll … Continue reading

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