May, 2020

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Competitive Intelligence Software Comparison: Klue vs. Knowledge360

Cipher

Welcome to our Competitive Intelligence Software Comparison series! We are regularly asked by prospects and clients to help them compare different competitive intelligence software tools. So we decided to dedicate a series of articles to this very subject.

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What is Spam? The Truth About Unsolicited and Cold Email

Zoominfo

What is spam? What is a cold email? And when is your email against the law? There is a lot of confusion surrounding these questions. Many people seem to carry the misconception that any cold or unsolicited email is spam, and that spam is illegal. There is a lot to unpack here, but let me start by making clear that if all cold emails were illegal, we wouldn’t be driving successful email marketing campaigns for thousands of companies worldwide.

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Wargaming Industry’s Response to COVID-19 Crisis

AIM

How are you planning for the future during this extremely uncertain time? While not a crystal ball, wargaming provides a risk-free way to pre-test business plans based on the rapidly changing regulatory and economic landscape we all find ourselves in. While business is slow for so many industries, this is a great time to keep your team engaged and thinking strategically about how you (and your competitors) can move forward!

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Three Steps to a Better-Performing About Page

Moz

Posted by AnnSmarty Somehow, many businesses I’ve come across online have one glaring problem in common: a very weak and unconvincing About Us page. This doesn’t make any sense in my mind, as the About page is one of the most important brand assets, and unlike link building and social media marketing, it doesn’t require any ongoing effort or investment.

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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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Covid-19 Crisis: Helping Those on the Front Line

Digimind

On Saturday March 28th, I received a message on my personal email inbox from a representative of the Gendarmerie Nationale (one of France’s national police forces), asking me if Digimind could help them in the management of the Covid-19 crisis by providing free access to our web listening technologies.

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Competitive Intelligence Tools: Traditional Taxonomies vs. Natural Language Processing

Cipher

As you evaluate competitive intelligence tools , you will likely come across two major categories of systems: taxonomy-based systems and systems that use natural language processing for automated tagging.

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How to Engage & Recruit Great Passive Candidates

Zoominfo

You already know how to recruit active candidates. They’re easy to find. They’re the ones with the ready-to-go resume and up-to-date website. They’re attending networking events, following your company on social media, and applying for your open positions. However, if your active candidates are not the right candidate, recruiters have to go beyond those seeking employment now to strengthen their company’s workforce—by building a pipeline of passive candidates.

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Expand Tally Solutions Access and Reporting with BI Tools!

Elegant BI

Love Tally ERP? Want BI Tools and Mobile Access Too? If you and your business users love Tally ERP but you would really like to have expanded reporting capability and mobile access, don’t despair. You can have those things today! Business Intelligence for Tally is as simple as 1-2-3. And BI for Tally provides the ability to establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs), track and analyze trends, view and analyze transactions, share reports in PDF and XLS via WhatsApp and email, see produ

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Google Alerts for Link Building: A Quick and Easy Guide

Moz

Posted by David_Farkas If you’re a link builder, you know how tough it can be to persuade other site owners to link to your site with “out-of-the-blue” pitches. This is true even if you have great content or have been building links for years. That’s why the mantra “link building is relationship building” exists. Often, before you build a link, you have to build a relationship with the site owner first.

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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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Leading Predictive Analytics Company Adds Real-Time Business Opportunities to Its Enterprise Software Suite Using Contify’s News Feed APIs

Contify

Contify, the AI-enabled market and competitive intelligence solutions provider, has announced today that it has successfully deployed its News Feed APIs to help a predictive analytics company enrich it’s bid management software suite with real-time and accurate updates on new business opportunities for its public and private sector clients in the aerospace and defence sector.

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How finding leverage helped a BI team bolster its business

Domo

When Brian Jackson joined Texas Tech Credit Union as its business intelligence director in 2018, one of the first things he did was take inventory of all the financial institution’s systems and how they were working together. What he found was the equivalent of a giant vault, waiting to be unlocked. “Only about 40% of our systems were integrated,” Brian said during a Domo-sponsored webinar last week.

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Wargaming Industry’s Response to COVID-19 Crisis

AIM

How are you planning for the future during this extremely uncertain time? While not a crystal ball, wargaming provides a risk-free way to pre-test business plans based on the rapidly changing regulatory and economic landscape we all find ourselves in. While business is slow for so many industries, this is a great time to keep your team engaged and thinking strategically about how you (and your competitors) can move forward!

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How to Calculate Total Addressable Market and Perform TAM Analysis

Zoominfo

What kind of grocery shopper are you? Do you take your time, comb every aisle, look at every option and add to your cart whatever looks good in the moment? Or do you plan a little, consider meals you might like to eat, think of a ballpark budget, prepare a list, and aim to get in and out as quickly as possible? A survey by an online magazine Kitchn showed that 97% of grocery shoppers use a list.

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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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Power BI Governance, Good Practices, Part 2: Version Control with OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint Online

BI Insight

One of the most important aspects of the software development life cycle is to have control over different versions of a solution, especially in a project where there is more than one developer involved in the implementation. Just like when you normally create a project in visual studio and you commit the changes back to … Continue reading Power BI Governance, Good Practices, Part 2: Version Control with OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint Online.

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How to Get Quick Results With SEO Sprints: The DriveSafe Case Study

Moz

Posted by ChristopherHofman Currently, many businesses face challenging times and are moving their SEO budget to disciplines which offer quicker wins. But you can also create instant results with SEO, and it can be done on a small budget even when you are up against bigger players in your industry. In this blog post I will show you my framework to do SEO sprints.

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How to influence decision-makers.

Mind Shifts

Working from home these days have you noticed how many more special offers, webinars, seminars, classes, podcasts are coming our way? How do we stand out from all this noise to grab the attention of decision-makers? With all kinds of decision-makers (parents, consumers, executives etc) being bombarded with online information and online services, I loved these tips from Marshall Goldsmith providing advice on how to be more effective in influencing decisions.

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BI and Analytics Adds Value Across the Enterprise!

Elegant BI

Start-Up, Small Biz? You Too Can Enjoy Business Intelligence and Analytics! Every business has its unique needs, competitive strategy and challenges. But, not every business understands these factors or has the ability to make fact-based decisions. Even the smallest businesses deal with a lot of data every day and, while they may feel that they don’t need analytics, this oversight can mean that they do not consider all the data they have when they make a decision or that they tend to make decisi

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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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How to maximize marketing dollars, even in a downturn

Domo

Marketers have always had to work on a tight budget. And in recent years, even before the novel coronavirus came along and turned the world upside down, they were getting tighter. To wit: Findings from Gartner’s most recent CMO Spend Survey , released last October, revealed that marketing budgets dropped below 11% of company revenue for the first time since 2014.

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8 Ways to Use BASHO Emails in Cold Email Outreach – With Examples

Zoominfo

BASHO emails are alive and well—and thriving. They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. But to crush cold email outreach, you have to do it right. We looked to one of our internal experts, our Sales Development Rep with the 60% response rate, to show you how (and when) to write a perfectly personalized BASHO email.

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Power BI Governance, Good Practices, Part 2: Version Control with OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint Online

BI Insight

One of the most important aspects of the software development life cycle is to have control over different versions of a solution, especially in a project where there is more than one developer involved in the implementation. Just like when you normally create a project in visual studio and you commit the changes back to … Continue reading Power BI Governance, Good Practices, Part 2: Version Control with OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint Online.

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Executing a Domain Migration: An Inside Look From OnLogic (Formerly Logic Supply)

Moz

Posted by ErikaOnLogic In October 2019, our 16-year-old company rebranded from Logic Supply to OnLogic. The recovery from a traffic standpoint has been pretty smooth (and much faster than we expected), and our customers have embraced our new name and look. We want to share our story, the steps we took to prepare for this major change, and some things we learned along the way about what it takes to execute a successful domain transition (with minimal impact on organic results) in an effort to hel

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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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Global Strategy Consulting Major Identifies New Business Opportunities Using Contify

Contify

Contify, the AI-enabled market and competitive intelligence platform, has announced today that it has successfully deployed its Market and Competitive Intelligence Platform to help a global strategy consulting major find new business opportunities by tracking the portfolio companies of its private equity clients. The firm approached Contify to automate the process of monitoring the digital footprint of 1800+ companies from its PE clients’ portfolio.

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Machine Learning: The Secret Weapon for Data Visualization!

Elegant BI

Machine Learning and Smart Data Visualization – The Perfect Combination! Now that you (and your team) have access to analytics tools, you want to make the best use of these tools. You want to share analysis with others, use that analysis to explain concepts and conclusions in a presentation, and clearly see the root cause of a problem, the opportunity you can leverage and the trends and patterns you need to understand in order to do your job.

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The 10 Most Influential Business Intelligence Blogs in 2020

Better Buys

Business intelligence never stands still. In a rapidly changing landscape, even experts need to work hard to stay abreast of the latest developments and insights. Countless resources exist to shepherd business intelligence users through these fluctuating ideas and frequent innovations. Below is a collection of the best. Many reflect unique perspectives from across the field […].

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Old Coding Language Entrenched in 100+ Government Systems

Zoominfo

This is a preview of a post published on our Medium page. Read the full article. A scoffed programming language is indirectly preventing some Americans from receiving unemployment or pandemic-related stimulus checks — and based on ZoomInfo’s data, the problem is deeply entrenched in state and federal agencies. The antagonist? A business software called Common Business-Oriented Language, better known by its acronym, COBOL.

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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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Introducing Power BI Governance and Adoption Good Practices Series

BI Insight

In my experience working in IT industry from early 2000 one aspect of dealing with data that is always taken very seriously is data governance. For many years the industry learnt how important it is to have a data governance process in place to keep your data safe and healthy so you get the most … Continue reading Introducing Power BI Governance and Adoption Good Practices Series.

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Crisis Adaptation - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by BritneyMuller Businesses all over the globe are struggling with new challenges as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With consumers turning to the internet for the majority of their needs, it's never been more vital to ensure your online presence is easily found and your business updates clearly communicated. In this special edition of Whiteboard Friday, Britney Muller outlines a checklist that businesses can use to meet the changing needs of consumers and improve visibility for

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2 Key Elicitation Techniques: Listen and Be Silent

Ellennaylor

There are not enough listening ears. That’s been an issue for years as people have become more embedded into the quiet, digital space. In the COVID-19 environment, businesses are anxious to learn what they should be doing next. Business as usual isn’t, these days, and is not likely to return to the way it was before COVID-19. A great way to learn is to listen to your employees, customers, partners and supply chain.

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