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How to Use a Competitor Map to Pick the Best Location for a Business

Whether you’re starting a business or trying to manage the growth of an existing business, being cognizant of the competition is a significant aspect of sales success. Competitor awareness provides multiple strategic and tactical advantages to any business, especially regarding … Continue reading

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How to Generate and Assign Sales Leads

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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How to Annotate Map Projects Using MapBusinessOnline

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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How AT&T, Asurion, L.L.Bean, and MapBusinessOnline Rescued My Cell Phone

I live in Maine. No spring chicken; I am relatively active for my advanced age.  And as a model Baby Boomer, I’m unsurprisingly tied to my cell phone. The thing provides all sorts of features I can’t live without, despite … Continue reading

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Use Complete Addressing to Optimize Your Business Map

So you need to create a business map for a project at work. Maybe you are a business owner and know you need to view your business data geographically to make some critical decisions. Or perhaps your boss picked you … Continue reading

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Mapping the USA Westward Expansion Using MapBusinessOnline

Why does a business install business mapping software? The short answer is to improve your business performance through location-based analysis and map visualizations. But your child might need MapBusinessOnline someday. Oh yes, they actually might. I took some time this … Continue reading

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Use Business Maps to Communicate Concepts – Real, Fake, or Imagined

Business Mapping Software is a digital tool used to create map images. Business mapping software melds a variety of map layers together to create map images that communicate a business concept. Nearly all industries use business map images – from … Continue reading

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Which State is Safer – Maine or Wyoming?

We’ve been publishing daily, bi-weekly, and now weekly business map snapshots of the COVID-19 virus epidemic and the COVID vaccination status by the state since March of 2020. These shared maps have been visual representations of where we stand as … Continue reading

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Why Do Large Enterprises Invest in Business Mapping Software?

Why would a large enterprise business like a bank, an insurance business,  a manufacturing concern, or a medical center consider purchasing business mapping software like MapBusinessOnline? There are many reasons why large companies choose to purchase online mapping software, such … Continue reading

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What is Business Mapping?

What is Business Mapping, anyway? Business mapping is applying advanced location technology towards building digital visualizations and geographic models of commercial activities. A business map is an accurate digital, geographic model of the world, or a place within the world, … Continue reading

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