September, 2018

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The Top 35 Sales Podcasts for Sales Professionals

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Today, we’re sharing the ultimate list of sales podcasts. If you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales. Recently, we published The Ultimate List of Marketing Podcasts. So if you’re already familiar with the sales podcasts on this list, we recommend you check out that post as well.

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Ability awareness: interview with Tom Minich

DC Velocity

While many would consider disabilities a liability, Peckham Inc. embraces employees with disabilities as the key to its success as an organization.

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Predictive Analysis Isn’t Just for Data Scientists!

Elegant BI

How Can My Business Use Assisted Predictive Modeling to Optimize Resources? There was a time, not so long ago, when predictive analysis, business forecasting and planning for results involved guesswork and lots of unscientific review of historical data. But, today’s competitive business landscape and rapidly moving markets demand more than guesswork.

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Implementation of a Competitive Intelligence and Technology Watch system

Innguma

Did you know that implementing a Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence (TW and CI) system allows your company to have appropriately filtered and structured strategic information that particularly relates to critical watch factors regarding competitors, the market and technologies? La entrada Implementation of a Competitive Intelligence and Technology Watch system apareció primero en Innguma.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Using Unicode Characters in Power BI

BI Insight

There are several scenarios to use Unicode characters in Power BI including but not limited to: Creating simple KPI columns in Table or Matrix visuals To show the status of a measure more visually like using starts Using Unicode characters as icons in your reports representing the subject Chris Webb explained some of the above … Continue reading Using Unicode Characters in Power BI.

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Tableau vs. Power BI vs. Qlik: How the BI rivals stack up

Athena Solutions BI

Tableau, Power BI and Qlik Sense offer similar self-service BI functionality, consultant Rick Sherman says. But he points to some of their strengths and weaknesses. Purchasing decisions on self-service BI software often come down to a three-way competition: Tableau vs. Power BI vs. Qlik. “Typically, they’re the ones winning out in self-service BI.

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Infor to offer Coleman AI platform through Amazon Alexa

DC Velocity

Digital Assistant product supports conversational interface to offer insights, automate tasks, firm says.

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Can Mobile BI Software Give Your Business an Edge?

Elegant BI

Mobile BI Tools Don’t Stop at the Front Door of Your Business! Where is your business intelligence? It is in the very core, veins and spine of your business and that crucial data you need is in every corner and every data repository. If you haven’t employed the benefits of mobile business intelligence, you are tying the hands of your managers and business users.

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AIM is an approved HCAHPS survey vendor for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

AIM

Allis Information Management (AIM) has been approved by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to administer the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System (HCAHPS) survey, making AIM one of only 27 approved vendors nationwide. This opportunity builds on AIM’s established history conducting focus groups and satisfaction surveys for healthcare and other organizations.

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5 Essential Graphs for Your Social Media Dashboard

Digimind

Here we will review 5 essential graphs your social command centres should display as a summary of your brand’s performance in both earned media and owned media. The post 5 Essential Graphs for Your Social Media Dashboard appeared first on Digimind Blog.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Using Unicode Characters in Power BI

BI Insight

There are several scenarios to use Unicode characters in Power BI including but not limited to: Creating simple KPI columns in Table or Matrix visuals To show the status of a measure more visually like using starts Using Unicode characters as icons in your reports representing the subject Chris Webb explained some of the above … Continue reading Using Unicode Characters in Power BI.

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10 Discovery Questions to Uncover Buyer Needs

Zoominfo

Most sales professionals recommend using a sales methodology that involves uncovering a buyer’s biggest problem or pain point. While this is essential for sales success, it’s also only half of the story. This type of approach often drives sellers to employ a “find-out-what’s-wrong-and-fix-it” mindset. Sellers hear a buyer’s complaint and often jump to problem-solving far too quickly.

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10 situations where automation makes sense

DC Velocity

Whether it's saving space, boosting productivity, or slashing processing costs, the benefits of automation can make it a logical move. Here are some signs that your operation is ripe for automation.

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Self-Service Data Prep for Every Business User!

Elegant BI

Augmented Data Preparation for Business Users Offers Many Benefits! If your enterprise is entangled in complex data preparation and manipulation, and you want to simplify and expand the use of data preparation to leverage data integration and self-service data prep, you need to explore the potential of augmented data preparation. Data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) can be a complex, time-consuming process, but self-serve data prep is ETL for business users.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How INNGUMA helps to manage the regulation UNE 166.002

Innguma

The INNGUMA Technology Watch integrated platform will support the Arrasate IK4-IKERLAN technology centre in its compliance with standard 166.002, to which the centre was certified in 2017. The technology centre that specialises in industrial digitalisation has integrated the INNGUMA platform as a tool within its strategy for optimising technological research, development and innovation processes.

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Digimind Named A Strong Performer in Social Listening Platforms Report by Independent Research Firm

Digimind

At Digimind, our aim is to build innovative tools to help our clients understand the world as it is through social media intelligence. We strive to provide not just the best-in-class technology, but also the sharpest minds to deliver actionable insights to help you drive results. There’s nothing that yields happiness quite as much as […]. The post Digimind Named A Strong Performer in Social Listening Platforms Report by Independent Research Firm appeared first on Digimind Blog.

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AIM is an approved HCAHPS survey vendor for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

AIM

Allis Information Management (AIM) has been approved by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to administer the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System (HCAHPS) survey, making AIM one of only 27 approved vendors nationwide. This opportunity builds on AIM’s established history conducting focus groups and satisfaction surveys for healthcare and other organizations.

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7 Modern Tips to Leave a Better Sales Voicemail

Zoominfo

Today’s sales professionals have more ways than ever to get in touch with prospects. And yet, sales reps can’t escape the most common and often the most frustrating method of sales prospecting communication—and that’s voicemail. . There’s no way around it—sales reps spend a lot of time leaving voicemails, and unfortunately, most go unanswered. Consider these statistics ( source ): 15% of a sales rep’s time is spent leaving voicemails. 80% of calls go to voicemail, and 90% of first time voicemai

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Conveyor maintenance goes high tech

DC Velocity

Predictive maintenance takes hold in today's increasingly connected distribution center, where sensors, software, and the Internet converge to improve system visibility and reduce downtime.

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The Tally Mobile App Makes Access Easy!

Elegant BI

Does Tally Have a Mobile App? Tally users are a dedicated bunch. They do love their Tally solution and they are loathe to be without it. But, the desktop application is not accessible to them on the road, and that is a problem. This application has become critical to the day-to-day function and decisions of many organizations and users depend on the data contained within the app to make decisions.

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Why Employees Hate HR – and How You Can Turn this Situation Around

Better Buys

By Norberts Erts, CakeHR Human Resources has been called by many names but “employee-friendly” isn’t one of them. Why do employees resent their HR department so much? In a nutshell, most employees think of HR as the police department of the company. The trope, “Do nothing wrong and you’re fine. Do something wrong and they start asking questions,” applies all too well to […].

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Digimind Named A Strong Performer in Social Listening Platforms Report by Independent Research Firm

Digimind

At Digimind, our aim is to build innovative tools to help our clients understand the world as it is through social media intelligence. We strive to provide not just the best-in-class technology, but also the sharpest minds to deliver actionable insights to help you drive results. There’s nothing that yields happiness quite as much as […]. The post Digimind Named A Strong Performer in Social Listening Platforms Report by Independent Research Firm appeared first on Digimind Blog.

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.

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The Risks of Personalization: When Marketers Cross the Line

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Personalization. It’s one of the most talked-about trends in the marketing world today. Marketers—us included—continue to preach the importance of understanding your customers and delivering targeted, personalized campaigns based on what you know about them. But, what we haven’t discussed are the risks of personalization—or more specifically, what happens when a campaign is too personalized.

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The Definitive Guide to Talent Mapping for Recruiters

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Often, HR departments hire reactively— meaning they only seek to fill positions as they open up. Talent mapping, on the other hand, is a proactive approach used to forecast long-term hiring needs and subsequently cultivate organizational support for new roles over time. Essentially, talent mapping bridges the gap between a company’s goals and the personnel they must hire to reach them.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Candidate Response Rate

Zoominfo

Good news: You just found the perfect candidate to fill a job vacancy. You send them a quick email and hope for a response. A few days pass— and still no word. Sound familiar? In today’s competitive hiring landscape, this scenario happens again and again. A low candidate response rate can frustrate even the most experienced recruiter. This begs the question: How do you improve your candidate response rate?

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3 Sales and Marketing Alignment Best Practices

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For the typical B2B organization, sales and marketing alignment is the ultimate goal. Yet, in most companies, the two departments operate independently—causing frustration and resentment on both sides. If you’re struggling with sales and marketing alignment, here are a few compelling reasons to get these teams on the same page: Companies with strong sales and marketing alignment achieve 20% annual growth rate.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Overcoming Sales Objections: The 5-Point Guide

Zoominfo

If you’re dealing with a sales objection… congratulations! You’re working with a decision-maker who has some skin in the game — and they’re taking your proposal seriously. That’s exactly where you want to be. “We should relish objections,” says Steve Bryerton , ZoomInfo’s Vice President of Sales. “You might think that positive language is a good thing, but it’s not.

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The Definitive Guide to Market Intelligence

Zoominfo

Consider this scenario– you’re taking a road trip to a destination you’ve never been before. You think you know the directions, so you take off without a map or navigation system. Before you know it, you’ve gotten lost—and wasted time and money in the process. Attempting to grow your business without market intelligence is a lot like driving without directions.

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How to Use Surveys to Reach B2B Business Goals

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As a marketer, you must have a clear understanding of your audience’s needs and interests to remain current, improve customer experience, and ultimately grow your business. Unfortunately, many businesses are working with an outdated or surface-level view of their customers. But, we have a simple fix—surveys! Whether you realize it or not, marketers can use surveys to reach important business goals.

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The 26 Best Sales Podcasts for Reps and Leaders

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Not only are podcasts a great source of entertainment, but more professionals use podcasts for professional development, research, and inspiration. Today, we’re sharing our list of the best sales podcasts on the web from some of the biggest sales personalities. So if you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.