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Promote Your Products and Services to Businesses

Provide sales and services to businesses near your established customers. Focus on specific industries and locations using trusted US and Canadian business data from DatabaseUSA.com that you plot in Salesforce Maps.

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To access Salesforce Maps: Salesforce Maps
  1. Click Layers | Saved | Personal | New | Data Layer.
    Option to create a data layer
  2. Enter a name and a description for your data layer. Select the data source Business Data (USA).
    Option to create a data layer using the Business Data source
  3. Add filters so that you focus on specific property characteristics and locations. Then specify the details that you want to appear in marker popups, such as contact names, addresses, and business characteristics.
    Filters that help you focus on specific characteristics
  4. Save your work, and then plot the data layer. Zoom to the area where you want to focus your efforts, and then refresh the layer for that area.
    Businesses that meet the criteria in filters
    Markers that represent individual and clusters of businesses appear. When you select any marker, you get access to details for the businesses represented in that marker.
  5. To generate leads for businesses, click a marker, select Actions, and then click Click2Create. If you don’t have access to Click2Create, ask your Salesforce admin for help.
    Option to create leads for the businesses represented in a marker