Business Territory Mapping

Mapping Sales Territories has always been a fundamental component in business, usually involving printed sheet maps, marker pens and perhaps map pins. You don’t want modify the territories because its a messy or painstaking job. It’s relatively one dimensional, you can’t show everything you want to be able to see, which limits the functionality and benefit you can achieve from it.

Territory management is of course very important and the map is only part of it. It allows you to delineate an area, usually to manage field workforces. It makes it easy for example if a potential client calls, to allocate resources to deal with an opportunity.

In the franchise business, the franchisee buys the rights to do business in a predefined area and the area has a value based partly on the land area, but really it is more about the number of potential clients in that area. Those clients might be other businesses, or it may be consumers. Of course the clients are then also categorised. For example if you are selling medical products for resale, your target clients are going to be pharmacies, medical practices etc. If you are offering lawn mowing or gardening services, your target market is consumers who can afford your services and perhaps are time poor.

GeoSmart is about to launch a SaaS web application which will allow you to not only create your business territories, but also to display existing potential clients, query population census demographic information from the New Zealand Department of Statistics and display that on the map and much more, as outlined in our end of year newsletter.This product will be available for New Zealand and Australia.

To learn more about this new application, please contact us or subscribe to this blog, where we will be exploring ways that you can analyse your business opportunities and results on a web map.

Creating Territories on a web map