Tag Archives: MapPoint

Locations-based Data and Business Mapping – What’s the Big Deal?

Established businesses and start-up businesses are generally run by smart people. Unless you’re selling water to long distance runners in the desert, it takes careful thought, planning, and vision to run a successful business. Many businesses have been successfully managed … Continue reading

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4 Tips for Improving Your Sales Territory Divisions

One of the ways sales leaders are making a difference for their teams and their businesses is by ensuring that they have properly divided sales territories. Whether you’re starting from scratch or are looking to redesign your existing territories, having … Continue reading

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How Can I Derive Demographic Data Related to a Radius or Circle Search?

We get many requests for workflows to achieve various business mapping results. One common request is to derive demographic data from a circle around a point on a demographic map. In other words, here’s an address; draw a 25-mile circle … Continue reading

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Top 5 Reasons Your Boss is Wrong to Not Replace Microsoft MapPoint Now

I know your boss is a great guy, but he’s notoriously cheap. He skimps on expenses until the end of the year; then, he spends what’s left in his budget on anything and everything during December. What an innovative manager. … 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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Appending Data to Your Business Map

Often, when we build a business map, we create it from a location-based dataset describing our business in some way.  But even after our map is complete, we may want to add new data to our project – business data … Continue reading

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Know Your Map Audience

Color Shading Your Subjective Map – The Webinar Last week I gave a Map Business Online webinar. Putting on a webinar is not the easiest thing in the world to do. There’s a lot of technology that comes together to … Continue reading

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How Your Business Map is Subjective

The Map Business Online Map Gallery Business mapping software is used to solve problems, define business areas of interest, and to assign areas of responsibility. Business maps are also used to present strategic plans based on geography. A business map … Continue reading

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Say it with a Business Map

Business mapping doesn’t solve all problems, but it can sometimes lend a new perspective on that nasty problem your business has been trying to solve for a while, with no luck. Problems come in all shapes and sizes. Business mapping … Continue reading

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What is an Area of Interest?

In Map Business Online, we treat areas of interest and territories the same. By that I mean, you use the exact same tools to create an “area of interest” as you would a “territory.”  So, what is the difference between … Continue reading

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