Why is mapping CRM contacts and companies so hard?
Standard CRMs often lack reliable geographic visualization, forcing teams to manually export data to external mapping tools just to plan regional outreach. This workaround is tedious and frequently results in broken geocoding errors, such as dropping international clients onto random domestic locations.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1exporting data to Google Maps to plan regional outreachDid this help you?
- 2using third-party apps like 'Contacts Journal CRM' on iOSDid this help you?
- 3Syncing contacts into Looker Studio and using the Google Maps heatmap layerDid this help you?
- 4Using native integrations or third-party apps like GeoPointe, Mapline, Mapsly, or GeomapperDid this help you?
- 5Using HubSpot's native buying groups functionality for sales/marketing activity heat mapsDid this help you?
- 6Exporting API data into Obsidian to view relationship network graphsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m a one man shop managing HubSpot for a staff of 20ish. We’re wrapping up a major cleanup project and I’m eager to start creating heat maps for our contacts and companies.”source ↗
“We used to export to Google Maps just to plan regional outreach, which was painful.”source ↗
“It put all my Swedish clients on some random spot in West Virginia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”source ↗
Where this came up
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