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When you create a map for PowerPoint, it brings a slide to life in an engaging way while visualizing important information about your operations. From text, icons and images to flowcharts, videos and even heat maps, PowerPoint can help you communicate a concept, a process or a data set in a digestible and interesting way. PowerPoint is not the only presentation software on the market – perhaps you use Google Slides or Keynote – but it is the most popular. PowerPoint has racked up 500...

Sales data analysis: 8 key metrics for driving revenue Total revenue Revenue per sale Revenue by product Revenue by territory Sales by lead source and location Revenue split between new and existing customers Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Sales team quotas

As a sales leader, you're always looking for the advantage, but there's a secret weapon you may not have thought about yet: area mapping in sales. Imagine this. You're sitting down to a game of chess. You know that you and your opponent are evenly matched in skill, so you're feeling confident. But wait, there's a catch. You sit down and someone hands you a blindfold. Your opponent gets to see the board and the pieces, but you're playing in the dark. Who do you think wins now? It's not fair,...

It's a business death knell: "But we've always done it this way!" Getting stuck in a rut is bad for business, especially when it comes to your sales team. Just because you've had five sales reps in a region for years doesn't mean it's the ideal number. That's why you need a sales capacity model. If you haven't reviewed your sales territories recently, business activity may have drastically changed. And if your sales reps have too many accounts or leads to follow up with, you're probably...

Renewals are the life blood of many businesses. If you’re losing these customers at renewal time, your whole field sales process is stalled. While you keep bringing in new customers, you’re not going anywhere fast. To keep your business healthy and growing, knowing how to increase client renewal rates in field sales is critical. Luckily, there are many things you can do to keep your customers on board.

Is your field sales team in need of some additional resources? Have you been receiving customer complaints about the quality of service they're getting from your sales reps? Is your sales team starting to complain about the workload? You know you need to increase the number of field sales reps on your team to carry the workload efficiently. However, your opinion isn't likely to be enough for a recruitment drive to be signed off on by senior management.

Heat maps are probably one of the most common types of mapping analysis undertaken by eSpatial customers. Whether you have a knowledge of data visualization or not, most people are familiar with Heat Maps in some shape or form. They're one of the first types of analysis that comes to mind when one thinks of mapping data. However, heat maps are not simply just a method for visualizing data, the real benefit comes from understanding the data being presented. After all, a heat map can represent...