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Routing Enhancements & Time Windows for Map Business Online

MapBusinessOnline was recently upgraded to include enhanced routing features. (Updates like this occur automatically in a Cloud-Based software service.) Although MapBusinessOnline has included 150-stop optimized routing for years. With the demise of Microsoft MapPoint in late 2014, many customers were … Continue reading

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Exploring the Limits of City Limits

Any business mapping software worth investing in offers a variety of geographic district layers upon which users can base market analysis, sales territories, or operational planning.  The layers usually include county, state and zip code districts as boundaried object on … Continue reading

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The Map & Data Box – An Instructional Blog

When new business map users of MapBusinessOnline first open up the application, they notice a light gray box off to the left called Map & Data (M&D).  You’ll see that Map & Data shows a list of Map Layers with … Continue reading

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Premium Map Layers in Map Business Online

Map Business Online offers full-time subscribers a premium set of additional map layers. These additional layers are geographic map data options that were repeatedly requested  by the Map Business Online user base.  To access these layers click the Blue Globe button, currently … Continue reading

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How Do I Plot Incremental Points Using Map Business Online?

Map Business Online users from time to time, desire the ability to plot points on the map manually.  Most often user will import location enabled address spreadsheets and throw multiple, perhaps thousands of points on the map all at one … Continue reading

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Map Business Online Now Integrated with Act! – But why?

Over the last six months Map Business Online has been upgraded to integrate with both Act! and Salesforce.com. Users of both of these popular CRM systems should find this upgrade extremely convenient for viewing contacts and prospects against an accurate … Continue reading

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Predicting the Future with Business Mapping Software

As a business manager I’ve always wished I could predict the future. Visualizing the next big thing could greatly improve my business decision making. But the reality is I can’t just dream-up where all my new customers will be next … Continue reading

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The Quest for Map Perfection

Maps have always been an imperfect representation of the real world. Today’s online mapping applications, with the advent of crowd sourced data updates and detailed aerial imagery views, are pretty great representations of our world, but still – they are … Continue reading

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The Power of Zip Codes in Radius Maps

Perhaps the most popular request we field from MapBusinessOnline prospective customers is the request for radius maps. It’s no wonder Pythagoras discovered his geometric theorems early on because the world was impatiently waiting to conduct marketing and sales analysis based … Continue reading

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Define Your Sales Territories by County, State or Zip Code

  The purpose of using sales territories is to assign sales accountability and to measure sales progress. A sales organization can choose to make this a simple process or a complex process. I am sure some organizations require, for a … Continue reading

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