Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

With so many people generating so much data every day , you’d be remiss if you didn’t attempt to monetize it. But at the same time, it’s easy to see why many companies, especially small ones, would be reluctant to implement business analytics tools. There’s an upfront cost for integrating data analytics into a company, and it may not always seem worth it.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

There’s more to prospect contact data than phone numbers, job titles, and company pain points. In your CRM and other communication tools you can find valuable information, known as relationship intelligence, that goes beyond the surface level. Let’s say a current customer forwards one of your product emails to several procurement officers — this could indicate a change in their spending budget.

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Moz

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Posted by Dr-Pete On February 19, MozCast measured a dramatic drop (40% day-over-day) in SERPs with Featured Snippets, with no immediate signs of recovery. Here's a two-week view (February 10-23): Here's a 60-day view, highlighting this historic low-point in our 10K-keyword data set: I could take the graph back further, but let's cut to the chase — this is the lowest prevalence rate of Featured Snippets in our data set since we started collecting reliable data in the summer of 2015.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

There’s more to prospect contact data than phone numbers, job titles, and company pain points. In your CRM and other communication tools you can find valuable information, known as relationship intelligence, that goes beyond the surface level. Let’s say a current customer forwards one of your product emails to several procurement officers — this could indicate a change in their spending budget.

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Elegant BI

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Is Predictive Analytics Real or Does it Promise More Than it Delivers? Why would anyone want or need to use predictive analytics? What good is forecasting anyway? Doesn’t it always end up being wrong? Well, no! That’s why wise businesses use these techniques to plan and forecast and to understand how a change they are considering might impact their business success.

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Wink Intel

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

There’s a confusing profusion of new indexes behind ETFs and annuities. Laurence Black of The Index Standard says he can make sense of them. Watch as Tamiko Toland of CANNEX interviews Black about his solutions. (There’s a short video and a longer one.). In these videos, Tamiko Toland, director of annuity research at CANNEX, the annuity data firm, interviews Laurence Black, founder of The Index Standard , an independent startup based in Manhattan.

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Wink Intel

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

If there were ever a product built for steady retirement income, it is fixed annuities. With the big decline in fixed pensions, fixed annuities have become a must-have option for many retirees who need guaranteed income. They are the simplest annuity—principal and income are guaranteed, but rates are fixed. In other words, the insurance company is bearing the risk, so they get the upside, but the customer gets peace of mind.

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Wink Intel

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In his groundbreaking special for American Public Television, exclusively sponsored by the Alliance, renowned psychologist, gerontologist and best-selling author Ken Dychtwald presents life-changing insights and innovative ways Americans can discover, navigate and enjoy previously unimagined opportunities and challenges in this new life stage Dr. Dychtwald calls the Third Age, including learning how to match our health span to our life span, be our best self and maintain our financial security.

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Wink Intel

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

If you want to maximize how much you can safely spend in retirement, some economists say, sell some of your bonds and buy lifetime income annuities. While you’re still working, a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds is an efficient way to save for retirement. But once you’ve retired and are drawing down that nest egg, income annuities can outperform bonds, some economists’ research shows.

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