Let’s assume you are a sales rep, constantly on the road and are looking for an easy way to have your prospects or clients mapped out on your mobile device with you.
Why should you Visualize on Google My Maps Your Prospects and Clients for Opportunities?
Organizing your travelling route will make you much more efficient, thus less time wasted whilst finding more opportunities. You will be able to do more than any other competing sales rep and close more deals sooner and impress both yourself (or your management) and your clientele.
In addition, visualizing your prospects or new leads against your existing clients, you will be able to find potentially clients within a specific area or en-route between visits, that their location was not obvious by simply looking at a long list.
How to close more deals faster
It’s possible and all that is needed is for you to either use 1) Google Maps, or 2) import your own business lists into your own Google My Maps created map using a KML file or via an imported CSV/TSV.
Option 1) – Using Google Maps by searching the business category of GMB (Google My Business) keyword near your area.
Option 2) – Importing your list of leads either from a) a CSV file or b) a KML file into your own generated map via Google My Maps.
Let’s first clarify the differences between Google Maps app and Google My Maps.
They are both accessible within Google Maps app (via web browser or mobile apps), but the My Maps are Your Own Custom Maps within a section of this same Google Maps app that many may not know it even exists.
Learn more from this article how to access My Maps from within Google Maps
Considering option 1), whilst being on the road, this maybe a typical approach, where you may simply go ad-hoc and find your next lead by searching your Google Maps app. This maybe OK for most, but its not as good as option 2.
The preferred option 2) will allow you to have your ready made list of contacts to approach, mapped within the My Maps section of the Google Maps app.
To import your ready made list within my your My Maps, you need to have a list available in a supported file format (CSV, Excel, KML, GPX) that you can import into My Maps. The important part to also save on Geocoding costs is that you need to also include the coordinates (Latitude, Longitude) per business location within the imported file. Once this is done, you will have a list of markers (or places) plotted and available within that layer you create within My Maps.
Sounds simple right?
– Well not really, since you need the coordinates to be plotted to make something out of a map.
Here is a solution in acquiring a business lists of prospects or leads and importing within your own Maps
1. First take note of What are you looking for and Where. This list will consist of the What (being the keyword) and the Where (being the locations).
2. Next, send XtraDat this list of the keywords and locations and we will process the job to get you a fresh list of new leads, that will include data you need, such as: LAT/LON coordinates, Business Names, Tel #, Website, Address, Ratings, # of Reviews, Google CID, Google PID (place ID), Opening Hours, and registered business categories.
3. In addition, XtraDat can make available a set of ready made file(s) KML, CSV, you can import directly into your own My Maps that can be regionalized for your separate territories as needed.
Now you have a list of contacts to pursue and available within your own mapping application, either within the office or on the road. Segmented into regions as prepared, so your colleagues can jointly pursue as needed.
Have questions, like how to add to your CRM, or looking for a sample list of files, feel free to reach out to us and let’s discuss you project at hand.
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