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5 Reasons Your Sales Prospects Say No [Infographic]

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No. Nope. Sorry, not interested. Rejection is painful, no matter how your sales prospects say it. If you’re tempted to cry, throw your phone against the wall, or quit on the spot, we don’t blame you. However, there are better ways to channel your frustration. If you want to improve your sales performance, you must first understand why your prospect said no in the first place.

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Start me up: Opportunity charging or fast charging?

DC Velocity

Both methods are designed to get DC equipment up and running faster—and keep it running longer—than with conventional charging. So which is best for your operation?

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Business Intelligence for Travel: Enable Success!

Elegant BI

Analytics for Travel Businesses Can Provide a Competitive Advantage! The travel industry is very competitive! As the market and customer needs change, every business competing in the travel industry faces price wars, competitive promotional campaigns, travel safety and security issues, round the clock service availability and other complicated factors that affect business success.

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Capitalize User Reviews With These 5 Key Insights

Digimind

From brutally honest to ragingly hilarious, customer reviews are without a doubt a great source to get consumer opinions about a product or service prior to committing to a purchase. Research has found that 85% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. In fact, 68% of consumers will form an opinion about […]. The post Capitalize User Reviews With These 5 Key Insights appeared first on Digimind Blog.

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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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The B2B Marketer’s Guide to Virtual Reality

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In our increasingly digital world, new technologies constantly emerge and change the way we interact with buyers. Some tools become permanent fixtures in marketing strategies, while others fizzle out just as quickly as they enter the scene. But, if there’s one trend that signals what the future of marketing will look like – it’s the rise of virtual and augmented reality.

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Little Rhody's small-mindedness

DC Velocity

Rhode Island's new truck-only highway toll scheme has thrust the habitual failed thinking of the smallest state's leaders into the national spotlight.

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Micro vs Macro Influencers: Who’s Right for Your Campaign?

Digimind

Influencer marketing has proven to be a valuable method for marketing a brand or product, with some of the key outcomes being: improving brand advocacy, increasing awareness, reaching new audiences, and improving sales conversion. The most widely used social media platforms for influencer brand collaborations is Instagram, followed by blogs, YouTube, Facebook, and Pinterest.

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The Mobile App Marketer’s Guide to Data Enrichment

Zoominfo

In today’s highly digital, constantly-connected world, massive amounts of data are created and changed every second. In fact, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day. And, if that number wasn’t hard enough to wrap your head around, 90% of the data in the world was created in the last two years ( source ). This unparalleled access to data is typically seen as great news for marketers and businesses.

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UPS adds another electric vehicle vendor to testing program

DC Velocity

Thor Trucks delivers package car for Los Angeles routes as partners seek solutions to constraints of adopting electric vehicles.

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Better Buys’ Office Equipment Editor’s Choice Award – 3Q 2018

Better Buys

Better Buys has announced its 3Q 2018 Editor’s Choice Award winners for its office equipment devices. These winners represent the top manufacturers in the industry and were compiled from in-depth analysis of recently-released office equipment products. Each award recipient not only offered the greatest value and functionality but also exhibited unique features.

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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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How Should Your Company Be Monitoring Regulatory Changes?

Digimind

What does your company do to stay ahead of new and changing regulations? Is it consistently finding new methods and sources of monitoring? Every organisation should be able to answer these questions to ensure they keep up with today’s legislative landscape. In the wake of GDPR, it’s the perfect time to reevaluate the ways you […]. The post How Should Your Company Be Monitoring Regulatory Changes?

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5 SEO Lessons for the Modern Content Creator

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We get it, SEO may not be in your job description. But in our digital era, every modern content marketer must understand the basics of search engine optimization. As businesses look to scale their business growth through online channels, SEO skills will become more attractive and valuable to employers over time. Just consider these statistics: SEO/SEM marketing is the eighth most in-demand hard skill wanted by companies in 2018, according to a LinkedIn study ( source ). 61% of marketers say thei

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JDA partners with Microsoft for cloud services platform

DC Velocity

Cloud-based applications support automated forecasts and decisions in "autonomous supply chain" products, JDA says.

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6 Signs You Need A Computerized Maintenance Management System

Better Buys

Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) have come a long way. They were once exclusive to the manufacturing industry but are now widely accepted in many organizations that have little or even nothing to do with manufacturing. Sports centers, shopping malls, airports, educational institutions, research centers and almost any kind of business you can imagine uses […].

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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 Should Your Company Be Monitoring Regulatory Changes?

Digimind

What does your company do to stay ahead of new and changing regulations? Is it consistently finding new methods and sources of monitoring? Every organisation should be able to answer these questions to ensure they keep up with today's legislative landscape. In the wake of GDPR, it's the perfect time to reevaluate the ways you monitor regulatory changes.

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August 2018 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

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Welcome to our August B2B blog post round-up. If you’re new to the ZoomInfo blog—welcome! The B2B blog post round-up series highlights the work our writers have produced for outside publications. Our round-ups feature well-known publications, industry favorites, and lesser-known, up-and-coming websites. Today’s B2B blog post round-up features content about sales productivity, influencer marketing, buyer personas, and much more.

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Millennials: No difference in trust, value between parcel delivery firms

DC Velocity

Survey of age group finds that trusting a provider not to lose a package is key factor in carrier selection.

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4 BI Software Trends for August

Better Buys

“Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant, if not the only, source of competitive advantage.” – Peter F. Drucker Drucker was right. Again. When management icon Peter Drucker uttered this pithy maxim a quarter century ago, few conceived the limitless scope of the internet, let alone the depth of knowledge distilled from […].

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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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Analytics for Retail Can Help You Achieve Your Goals!

Elegant BI

Why Does My Retail Business Need Self-Serve Business Intelligence? Today’s retail market is more diverse and complex than ever before. Brick and mortar stores compete for revenue against global and online retailers. Perhaps the greatest challenge is to sustain profit margins in a market where profit margins are traditionally small and shrinking rapidly.

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FedEx to hike delivery surcharges on some larger, heavier shipments

DC Velocity

`Additional handling' charge to jump on packages weighing more than 70 pounds; company will not apply peak surcharges except on certain shipments.

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Wise Systems launches customer portal for delivery firms

DC Velocity

Addition to routing software package gives status updates on home deliveries for parcel delivery, retail, less than truckload (LTL) sectors, firm says.

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Sealed Air acquires packing supplies vendor to expand services in e-commerce fulfillment

DC Velocity

Buying AFP will support growth in packaging designs for electronics and transportation markets, firm says.

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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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Try (just a little bit harder)

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No one won our contest for May, but we hope readers will keep on truckin' and find June's answer—due by Aug. 2.

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Fetch Package lands $3 million funding for urban parcel delivery network

DC Velocity

Crowded sector attracting increasing corporate investment and solutions from Bell and Howell, Amazon.

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U.S. retailers, consumers to face severe pain if Chinese tariffs hit 25%, NRF says

DC Velocity

ISM survey shows trade war threat already impacting supply chains.

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A suggestion for congestion

DC Velocity

Congestion wastes time, fuel, and productivity. There must be a better way to manage our infrastructure.

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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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Good times rolling down the road for C.H. Robinson, XPO

DC Velocity

Industry giants in high Q2 cotton.

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Witron earnings rise 6.2 percent on demand for material handling systems

DC Velocity

Company cites rising demand in store, online, and omnichannel business in Europe and U.S.

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inVia raises $20 million for warehouse robots

DC Velocity

Picker bots create AS/RS for material handling in e-commerce fulfillment, firm says.

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Project44 goes international with software module for global parcel tracking

DC Velocity

Firm plans to hire 200 people to support expansion outside domestic market.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.