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How A New User Gains Access to MapBusinessOnline

New users to MapBusinessOnline often start with the Free Trial.  Signing up for the Free Trial and registering for MapBusinessOnline is the same process. Click the Start Free Now button at www.MapBusinessOnline.com,  which sets up the free trial and registers … Continue reading

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How to Add Map Layers to Your First Business Map

MapBusinessOnline includes a variety of Map Layers that are overlaid on top of a basic map background to provide the basic components of a business map.  The map background, usually the “Streets” layer, is the bottom layer that all the … Continue reading

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How Do I Create a Demographic ZIP Code Map?

Let’s create a demographic map by ZIP code. We’ll be using the ZIP code map layer and applying demographic data to that layer. ZIP code maps are one of the most popular uses of online business mapping software. As preparation, … Continue reading

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4 Enhancements for Your First Business Map

So, you’ve created a basic business map.  You’ve downloaded the Map App and accessed MapBusinessOnline from the Windows Start Menu or MAC Applications folder. Then you imported an address-based or latitude longitude-based spreadsheet and developed a map that pertains to … Continue reading

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How to Create a ZIP Code Heat Map

Up here in New England, it’s getting hot outside. What better time than during a heatwave to discuss heat mapping? After all, heat maps are excellent. Heat maps describe business or human activity by color-shading data values over specific locations … Continue reading

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A Word About ZIP Codes – ZIP5, ZIP3, ZCTA, and Points

To build a ZIP Code Map using MapBusinessOnline click this link & register MapBusinessOnline includes a map layer of ZIP5 codes for spatial reference to ZIP code boundaries.  US Postal Service (USPS) ZIP code boundaries are used as the basis … Continue reading

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How to Create Territories from ZIP Code Ranges in MapBusinessOnline

Every so often a customer asks if MapBusinessOnline can create sales territories based on a range of ZIP codes. The answer is yes but the customer is often disappointed. They usually ask the ZIP code range questions because they want … Continue reading

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How to Color Shade a Simple List of ZIP Codes on a Map

Many first-time users of MapBusinessOnline business mapping software begin their search for a mapping tool with a list of ZIP codes. Businesses of all types find themselves in possession of a list of ZIP codes with a desire to: Visualize … Continue reading

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How to Create a Zip Code Map

A ZIP code is a group of five numbers that are added to a postal address to assist in the sorting of mail. That is the definition of a ZIP code. It states nothing about boundaries or areas. The lowly … Continue reading

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Why Manufacturing Organizations Use Business Mapping

I have no idea how to make a widget. I haven’t a clue as to how to extrude plastic, stamp out metal parts, create a nonwoven web, or design and build mass quantities of consumer kitchen devices. But I know … Continue reading

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