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Module 5: Geographic Information Systems

Welcome to Module Five of the Information Competence Website for Marketing.

This Module introduces GIS, a powerful marketing tool used to create visual images of data sets, territories, demographics, and other market-driven information. GIS technology allows marketers to:

  • See a visual representation of customer locations
  • Plan targeted marketing campaigns by identifying prospects in a given geographic region by ZIP Code, county, and so on
  • Query Dun & Bradstreet's 16 million businesses to locate potential customers
  • Analyze competitive activity and demographics to help determine where you should develop new stores and offices
  • Create meaningful reports with maps, demographics, sales analysis, territories and more in Microsoft Office documents such as Excel and Access

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