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Visuals can make or break a presentation, proposal, or other business document. To do the job, your visuals should support your message—whether it's in a document or presentation.

Sometimes the support will be conceptual—key strategic factors, changes in trends, or geographic differences.

Other times, the visuals will be quantitative or data-driven, such as market share, revenue growth, and regional numbers. These quantitative graphics are the topics of today's article. We'll cover conceptual visuals in a future issue.

In any case, whether conceptual or data-driven, these visuals belong to what we call Business Graphics.

For the rest of this article, visit our new Business Graphics Blog.

Introducing the Business Graphics Blog by SmartDraw

The Business Graphics Blog by SmartDraw focuses on how to use business graphics to save time, increase efficiency, and improve communication.

Our Business Graphics Bulletins will now be appearing on the blog, along with other informative articles. Posting these bulletin articles to the blog makes it easier for you to archive our business graphics tips—because we'll do it for you! You can bookmark the blog and return there anytime. (We'll still send you new Business Graphics Bulletins, with article summaries and special offers by email.)

Click here to check it out.