Choosing eSpatial as a MapPoint Alternative
Microsoft MapPoint ceased development in 2014, which means if you're still using it today, you are using an outdated product that hasn't been updated in over two years. Using outdated software like this can be incredibly risky for your organization. If something goes wrong, there is no support available and no back-up available online. But that shouldn't stop you from mapping. eSpatial is the perfect alternative to MapPoint, allowing you to transform data from your CRM and spreadsheets into visualized...
https://www.espatial.com/articles/cloud-software-over-mappoint
Sales Territory Management Tips
Sales territory management in simple terms is a methodology to control, optimize and improve territory alignment and structure your sale's resources and activities. This means organizations are now looking for ways to make sales data easier to digest and gather insights such as market gap analysis and over-serviced territories. This can include balancing and aligning territories so that sales personnel and resources are being used effectively to maximize productivity of your sales team. Territories are often unbalanced; some may be...
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- Territory Management: Sales
- Reading Time: 4 minutes
https://www.espatial.com/articles/sales-territory-management-tips
Connect your Sales Team to their Customers with Maps
Keeping a sales team motivated can difficult. Sales teams start the month firing on all cylinders, but can lose momentum as the end of the month and targets loom near. This can be symptom of the sales team becoming disconnected from their goals. What goals do sales reps care about? Achieving sales targets and earning commission, but the problem can be connecting your sales team to these goals in a unique way that provokes a meaningful motivation. Sales teams need to...
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- Field Sales / Services
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https://www.espatial.com/articles/connect-sales-team-customers-maps
eSpatial October Release Preview
As always, we are continuously looking at ways to make our mapping software work better for our customers. Later this month we are releasing some new features which are sure to make a difference to how you visualize your data on maps. Today we'll take a sneak peek at a few of the updated features. Optimized Labelling Labels are an important part of map styling. They help to differentiate and annotate points of importance. Choosing the right size, font, background...
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- Features / Functionality
- Reading Time: 3 minutes
https://www.espatial.com/articles/espatial-october-release-preview
Why You Should Be Mapping Excel Data
Every organization has reams of data stored in CRM systems, POS systems, ERP systems and more. What do you do when you want an overview of all your data in relation to a particular customer, salesperson, employee or location? You export that information to CSV or Excel to start investigating and gaining insight. Manipulating data in a spreadsheet is cumbersome. It's time consuming and can be very frustrating. Mapping excel data using software like eSpatial can help you in many ways,...
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- Market Analysis
- Reading Time: 3 minutes
https://www.espatial.com/articles/mapping-excel-data
How To Quickly Add A Territory To Your Map
Territory Management is one of the most popular uses of eSpatial for our users. Thousands of businesses use our Territory Management software daily to improve lead development, balance the workloads of their sales teams, and maximizing their organization's profits. Territory Management software ensures efficient coverage of sales territories, increasing responsiveness to emerging trends, and empowers your sales team. We've helped countless sales organizations achieve success with Territory Management, you can learn more about the benefits of Territory Management in a previous post....
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- Territory Management
- Reading Time: 3 minutes
https://www.espatial.com/articles/how-to-quickly-add-a-territory-to-your-map
What Mapping Software Can Do for Your Business
Mapping software takes your existing location data (city, county, address, zip code, etc) contained in a spreadsheet and converts it into a vibrant, insight-rich map. Mapping software allows you to take tabular data (such as numbers and customer locations) and visualize that data in a more meaningful way. Think about the silos of location-based data in your organization sitting in spreadsheets, CRM and ERP systems. Well, mapping software can bring all of this data together for you, giving you a...
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- Features / Functionality
- Reading Time: 6 minutes
https://www.espatial.com/articles/mapping-software-can-business