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18 Quotes About Podcasting for Business Professionals

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Podcasts have captured the attention of millions and millions of listeners in recent years, more than earning their title as the modern-day radio. The success of podcasting is due, in part, to the convenience and pervasiveness of the modern smartphone. Think about it, people today are constantly on the go—but almost never without their cell phones. And thanks to music and radio streaming services, people have easy access to a wide range of podcasts to listen to during their commutes, car rides,

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Robots to the rescue

DC Velocity

When peak season rolled around each year, workers at Martin's Famous Pastry Shoppe's DC struggled to keep up with orders. Automated equipment and robotic pickers have changed all that.

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YouTube SEO: Top Factors to Invest In - Whiteboard Friday

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Posted by randfish If you have an audience on YouTube, are you doing everything you can to reach them? Inspired by a large-scale study from Justin Briggs, Rand covers the top factors to invest in when it comes to YouTube SEO in this week's episode of Whiteboard Friday. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab!

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Precision Medicine: Healthcare IT

BIS Research

Precision Medicine Market. Do you believe in the phrase, “a Match Made in Heaven”? Well if you don’t, you might begin to believe in it, once you have a look at the relationship between the science of Precision Medicine and the technologies like AI, Big Data and Blockchain in the IT sector. They are helping each other grow, and providing tons of opportunities and challenges for innovation.

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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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Net Promoter Score for Recruiters and HR Professionals

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We recently covered the topic of Net Promoter Score (NPS) as it applies to customer loyalty and business growth. Today, we set out to discuss a similar metric in the competitive world of recruiting: The Employee Net Promoter Score. If you have yet to use Employee NPS, then today’s blog post is for you. We’ll discuss what this metric is, and explore how you can use it to find and retain top talent.

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The Advanced Guide to Keyword Clustering

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Posted by tomcasano If your goal is to grow your organic traffic, you have to think about SEO in terms of “product/market fit.” Keyword research is the “market” (what users are actually searching for) and content is the “product” (what users are consuming). The “fit” is optimization. To grow your organic traffic, you need your content to mirror the reality of what users are actually searching for.

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White Paper – Paving the Road to Success: From Spreadsheets to Advanced Analytics

Elegant BI

The ‘culture’ of an organization includes habits and processes that are familiar and comfortable. There are many aspects to the success of a culture change within a business organization. When an enterprise decides to move from the silo spreadsheet culture to Advanced Analytics it can go beyond simple spreadsheet analysis and BI reporting with a comprehensive analytical environment that identifies business opportunities, and provides metrics and measurements, predictive modeling and

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12 Sales Qualification Questions to Ask Prospects

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In the world of sales, time is your most valuable asset. With quotas to meet, we all know how frustrating it is to waste time with a lead that never seriously considered buying from you in the first place. That’s where sales qualification comes in. Sales qualification is the act of evaluating potential prospects to determine whether they possess the characteristics that make them a good fit for your product or service.

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Adding new tiles to the omnichannel mosaic

DC Velocity

As retailers continue to expand their omnichannel service offerings, they're increasingly turning to a traditionally underused resource: the brick-and-mortar store.

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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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What Do You Do When You Lose Organic Traffic to Google SERP Features?

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Posted by Emily.Potter Google’s increasing dominance of their own search engine results pages (SERPs) has kicked up a lot of panic and controversy in the SEO industry. As Barry Adams pointed out on Twitter recently, this move by Google is not exactly new, but it does feel like Google has suddenly placed their foot on the accelerator: I find it hilarious that SEOs are suddenly annoyed that Google is aggressively taking over some verticals with in-SERP features.

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Contify Opens Up its Award-Winning Market Intelligence Platform With the Launch of APIs, Signs up DemandFarm as a Customer

Contify

Contify, winner of Frost & Sullivan’s New Product Innovation award , today announced the launch of Contify APIs ?—?a customizable solution for companies to integrate human-curated market intelligence into their internal and customer facing applications. Contify collects, organizes, and curates insights on Competitors, Customers, and Key Topics across industries.

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Know the Lingo: 7 BI Buzzwords Explained

Better Buys

By Nicole Hitner, Exago Finding the right business intelligence solution is hard enough without also having to decrypt industry jargon. When different software vendors use the same word to describe different (or worse, slightly different) things, it can get even trickier to find what you’re looking for. To help you get your search off on […].

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Logistics gives back

DC Velocity

Here's our monthly roundup of some of the charitable works and donations by companies in the material handling and logistics space.

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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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12 Sales Qualification Questions to Ask Prospects

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In the world of sales, time is your most valuable asset. With quotas to meet, we all know how frustrating it is to waste time with a lead that never seriously considered buying from you in the first place. That’s where sales qualification comes in. Sales qualification is the act of evaluating potential prospects to determine whether they possess the characteristics that make them a good fit for your product or service.

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Machine to Machine (M2M) & Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Offers End-to-End Solutions Across Applications

BIS Research

Machine to Machine or commonly known as M2M and Internet of Things (IoT) are two associated technologies which emerged with the increased use of advanced technologies to establish a secure connection with remote devices and reduce manual intervention. M2M and IoT technology further enable the acquisition of information from a number of scattered satellites and other technologies connected to these remote devices.

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Excel Spreadsheet vs. CMMS for Effective Maintenance Management

Better Buys

by Elena Haidukova, Comindware With each New Year, we still strive to further increase the efficiency of how we work or go about our daily activities. In this particular case, we want to highlight one particular business tool that has long improved work efficiency. That is the iconic Microsoft Excel. Since its introduction in 1985, […].

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Container-line transformation faces its biggest test from those paying the bills

DC Velocity

Ocean carriers are looking to reinvent themselves as providers of premium value-added services. The question is, are shippers willing to pay for the upgrades?

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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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4 Ways to Refresh Your Stale B2B Social Media Presence

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Let’s face it, in B2B marketing it’s easy to let your B2B social media accounts grow stale and outdated. With the social media landscape constantly evolving, and with so many other marketing responsibilities to juggle, many brands get complacent and fail to keep their social media strategy fresh. However, it is important to recognize when you’ve gotten complacent and what updates you need to make to get back on track.

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Gartner ‘Other Vendors to Consider for Modern Analytics and BI’, October, 2018 Includes Elegant MicroWeb (Smarten) in Category; Other Modern: Asia-Focused

Elegant BI

ElegantJ BI, an innovative vendor with its Smarten approach to Augmented Analytics and Self-Serve Data Preparation, is pleased to announce that Elegant MicroWeb (Smarten) is included as one of the Other Modern: Asia-Focused Vendors in the Gartner ‘Other Vendors to Consider for Modern Analytics and BI’ Report published on October 29, 2018.

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Author Michael Lewis sees turbulent future for freight markets in age of big data

DC Velocity

Transportation companies will soon hire statistics experts to draw conclusions from data churned out by ELD mandate, Moneyball author says at trade show.

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Port of Oakland on track for another record year

DC Velocity

Cargo volume remains strong on the West Coast, but 2019 outlook is unclear, port officials say.

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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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Spotlight on. forklifts and attachments

DC Velocity

These vehicles and accessories will keep things moving around your warehouse.

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Coming together for road safety: interview with Joshua Girard

DC Velocity

A private-sector group called "Together for Safer Roads" wants to keep global roads accident-free. Joshua Girard of AB InBev explains how the corporate world is pitching in to do this.

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Logistics companies honor veterans, active-duty military with services, celebrations

DC Velocity

UPS partners with Wounded Warriors Canada, Werner Enterprises hosts Veterans Day ceremonies, FedEx readies for Trees for Troops.

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Economic outlook calls for risk

DC Velocity

Tariffs, labor costs and freight market volatility are key challenges heading into 2019, economist Jason Schenker tells transportation conference attendees.

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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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Shoppers value communication over convenience in the returns process, study shows

DC Velocity

Transparent policies and proactive updates positively influence consumer perception and brand loyalty, according to Narvar study of 1,300 online shoppers.

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OOIDA will use nearly $1 million federal grant to help Midwest truckers reduce pollution

DC Velocity

Program aligns with EPA's Cleaner Trucks Initiative supported by Cummins, Diesel Technology Forum, and Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association.

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Companies report double-digit growth in industrial IoT usage

DC Velocity

Industrial firms are getting more sophisticated in their use of IoT for asset management, customer services, IFS survey shows.