Sat.Sep 08, 2018 - Fri.Sep 14, 2018

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7 Modern Tips to Leave a Better Sales Voicemail

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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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Assisted Predictive Modeling for Simple Business Analytics!

Elegant BI

No Guesswork! Just Simple, Assisted Predictive Modeling for Every Business User! No matter the market or type of business, there is no room in today’s business landscape for guesswork. You can’t get a business loan, join with a business partner, successfully bid on a project, open a new location, hire the right employees or plan for the future without predictive analytics.

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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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Analyst: shippers are leading carriers in progress toward digital supply chain practices

DC Velocity

Logistics industry is only at level two out of ten in digitalization process, as customers demand change, Project44 panel says.

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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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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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Data Analytics Should Not Be Restrictive!

Elegant BI

Deep Dive Analytics Tools Should Allow Users to Dive Deep Into Data! Imagine that you know you have a problem in your business. Perhaps your sales are slipping in a particular region or your customers are no longer buying a particular product even though you have discounted and promoted the item. To find out the root cause of a problem like this, you have to dive deep into the data, which means that data from multiple sources must be integrated and that your data analytics tool must be flexible

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Small trials can lead to big results with blockchain and AI, panel says

DC Velocity

GE and IBM advise launching internal pilots of emerging technologies, Project44 speakers say.

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Will My Business Users Embrace Augmented Analytics?

Elegant BI

Advanced Analytics and Smart Data Discovery for ALL! Don’t think that advanced analytics is too complicated for your business users. Nothing could be further from the truth! You can create Citizen Data Scientists and improve the analytical abilities and outcomes for your average business user if you give them the right tools. What you need is Advanced Analytics Software that is designed with sophisticated analytical techniques and methods and also designed for business users, with simple

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I.D. Systems merges vehicle management division with Keytroller assets

DC Velocity

Integration of 2017 acquisition forms PowerFleet division, to be located in new Florida facility.

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UPS unveils plan to boost margins on B2C deliveries

DC Velocity

`Transformation' program to focus mostly on U.S.; company seeks more delivery consolidations to increase operating leverage.

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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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AGiLE announces editorial promotion and staff addition

DC Velocity

Business journalist Victoria Kickham joins DC Velocity , Ames named senior news editor, Solomon leaves AGiLE.

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Seegrid adds latest self-driving vehicle for materials handling

DC Velocity

Vision guided tow tractor designed to interface with data analytics platform and fleet management software.

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US Xpress to offer free college tuition to drivers, families

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Initiative seen as first to offer education break to drivers' dependents.

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Ehrhardt + Partner Group signs contract to build $500 million logistics park in Qatar

DC Velocity

Site to provide automation and computerized logistics for middle eastern distributor Nasser Bin Khaled International.

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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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Kansas City Southern promotes Hancock, Naatz

DC Velocity

Hancock tapped for new EVP, innovation post; Naatz to succeed him as top marketing officer.

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Barcoding Inc. expands RFID portfolio with acquisition of Danforth Systems

DC Velocity

Deal adds Texas presence for firm's data capture services business, Barcoding says.

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FedEx Ground to add year-round Saturday service, matching UPS

DC Velocity

Sixth weekly service day to extend beyond peak season, FedEx Ground parent says.

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ALAN plans response as Hurricane Florence nears east coast

DC Velocity

Storm could start dumping rain by Thursday, as two more storms brew in Atlantic.

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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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Lithium Werks merges with battery maker Super B Lithium Power

DC Velocity

Dutch firms plan $116 million R&D center in the Netherlands to study industrial power cells.

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Hurricane Florence threatens to swamp Carolinas by Thursday

DC Velocity

CSX, Kion, and others brace for impact and prepare logistics recovery plans as storm brews.

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Volvo Trucks unveils electric autonomous tractor for fixed routes

DC Velocity

Power unit designed to handle repetitive hauls over short distances.

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Balloting materials to be mailed tomorrow on UPS-Teamster pacts

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Votes to be counted Oct. 5.

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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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South Carolina ports set all-time monthly box record in August

DC Velocity

Figure breaks June's prior record.

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20 Important Quotes about Personalization in Marketing

Zoominfo

Today’s buyers live in a world of information overload. Every day, they see countless brand messages from companies competing to win them over. So as a marketer, it’s important that you know how to cut through the noise to reach your target audience. For this reason, personalized marketing has become a staple in the modern marketer’s toolbox. Personalized marketing simply refers to the process of tailoring your marketing messages to resonate with a specific individual or group.

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6 Bad Habits Hurting Your Email Marketing Program

Zoominfo

Email marketing might not be the newest or flashiest marketing channel—but it’s one of the most effective at generating revenue and engaging your customers. The statistics speak for themselves: Email marketing has an ROI of 4400%, or $44 for every $1 spent (source). Email is the third most influential source of information for B2B audiences ( source ). 59% of B2B marketers say email is the most effective channel for revenue generation ( source ).

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What is Search Analytics and Can it Improve Self-Serve Data Discovery? (Part 2 of 3 articles)

Elegant BI

Search Analytics or search-based analytics marks the advent of a new era of business intelligence, in that it allows business users to ask a question using natural language and that question is translated by the system to produce results. In Part II of our three-article series we discuss search analytics and how it can improve self-serve data discovery.

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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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September 2018 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

Zoominfo

Welcome to the latest edition of our B2B blog post round-up series ! Every month we feature the content ZoomInfo writers have contributed to outside publications—so if you’re up-to-date on the ZoomInfo blog posts, these additional posts should tide you over. This month’s edition features content related to SEO vanity metrics, gaining a customer’s trust, critical marketing metrics, and so much more.

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White House shelves release of internal report on postal reform

DC Velocity

Trump unhappy with recommendations, people say.

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Out-of-the-Box Mobile Business Intelligence Software!

Elegant BI

True Mobile BI Software Is Suitable for Every Device! Why is mobile business intelligence important? Whether you are undertaking a data democratization project to implement self-serve business intelligence or simply trying to encourage user adoption of these crucial tools, it is critical to employ mobile business intelligence software. Today’s organization is more mobile than ever and team members work in the office, on the road and at home.