Sat.Mar 05, 2022 - Fri.Mar 11, 2022

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Exploring the Market Research Process in 2022

Cipher

While no two market research projects are exactly the same, virtually every successful initiative will follow a similar structure. It’s a structure used by Fortune 50 companies all the way down to ambitious startups looking to shake up an industry, and it’s one that you can adopt for your business too.

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Here’s What CI Practitioners Are Struggling With—And What Experts Recommend [New Data]

Crayon

Read the 2022 State of Competitive Intelligence Report and you’ll find tons of encouraging insights: 33% of CI teams are making time for win/loss analysis on a monthly basis. 66% of growing CI teams plan to increase their investments in technology. 98% of stakeholders say CI is at least somewhat important to their success. Alas, as evidenced by the report’s final chapter, the day-to-day life of a CI practitioner is not without its challenges: To help you more effectively tackle the top three cha

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Rebranding 101: Everything You Need to Know for a Successful Campaign

mention

When you start your business, you don’t always consider your branding a priority. But, even if you are creating a solid brand initially, some elements such as your brand values to logo design can stop working. That will result in slow sales and a struggle to get new clients. If you are here, you’re not happy with your brand. So, it is time to give your brand a facelift.

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Side Hustle Ideas for Experienced Data Scientists in 2022

Smart Data Collective

Are you a data scientist ? You might be missing out on some opportunities to make money from it. Even if you already have a full-time job in data science, you will be able to leverage your expertise as a big data expert to make extra money on the side. If you’re feeling strapped for cash and feel like you can earn more money with your knowledge and skills, then starting a side hustle in 2022 is an excellent idea.

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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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Types of market research (examples + tips)

Cipher

Types of market research. Exploratory market research is geared toward uncovering new ideas and testing assumptions. Primary market research is when you use various techniques to directly collect data from a large number of participants. Secondary market research (also: “dark research) uses existing sources of information to build a more complete understanding of the topic being researched.

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Introducing Mention Dashboard: Your Analytics Hub

mention

Mention is making it easier to check the pulse of your business’s online reputation. One of the main struggles of monitoring your products, services, or brand name across millions of sources is not only gaining that big insight but understanding the global perspective of your social impact. Mention is happy to introduce Dashboard , our newest Analytics feature giving our users a birds-eye view of all their Alerts in one place.

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7 Possible Cross Browser Testing Solutions for Data-Savvy Businesses

Smart Data Collective

Big data has become a core aspect of modern web marketing. Companies need to use data to optimize their websites and get the most value out of their digital marketing strategies. Over 1.1 trillion megabytes of data are created every day. The majority of this data is generated over the Internet. This gives companies a huge opportunity to bolster their online marketing strategies by leveraging big data to the best of their abilities.

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What is the True Cost of Bad Data for Your Business?

Zoominfo

Your go-to-market actions are only as good as the data they run on. You can hire the best sales and marketing talent and outfit them with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools , but without high-quality data, their efforts will fall short of your targets. Let’s dive deeper into what qualifies as bad data, what it actually costs businesses, and why you should switch from poor-quality to high-quality data.

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5 Battlecard Best Practices From the Experts at Gong, Salsify, and Hootsuite

Crayon

Battlecards.

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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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Deadly Sins in Proposals: The Hits Keep Coming

FedSavvy

Oh the mistakes that are made leading to some very expensive losses are ever so avoidable. Bear these in mind so you can avoid spending bid and proposal funds on losing proposals and then more on legal fees for a losing protest. Sin #5: You don’t understand the evaluation tendencies of the agency. This sin is perhaps the most egregious one of all. You failed to study evaluation tendencies of your intended customer!

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Big Data Offers Tremendous Benefits to Business Intelligence Solutions

Smart Data Collective

Business intelligence can help you gain a more accurate perspective on how your business is performing using key performance metrics. By 2023, 33% of companies will practice decision intelligence. Are you looking to use business intelligence to optimize business and security operations? Read on for an explanation and analysis of how business intelligence can leverage data to guide optimizing business and security operations.

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Some of Our Favorite Books by Women

Zoominfo

March marks Women’s History Month, and to celebrate and uplift the voices of women, our employees compiled a list of their favorite books written by women. From captivating works of fiction to powerful memoirs, these 30 books are insightful reads for those looking to gain more perspective on female experiences or simply enjoy a thrilling story. “ All About Love” by bell hooks “In 13 concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure t

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Consumers Adopt & Drop Fads, But Stay True to Trends

Netbasequid

Trends offer powerful, and often viral, ways to connect with consumers and enhance their emotional connection to a brand. And then there are fads. Consumers adopt and drop fads rapidly, and they may view a brand clinging to yesterday’s fad as “out of touch.” So, here are a few fads that were better left alone, and how brands can spot them, without the benefit of hindsight.

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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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‘Nothing is out of reach’: Inside Domo’s commitment to DEI

Domo

From Covid-19 to the murder of George Floyd, headline-making events of the past few years have caused many organizations to take a good, hard look in the mirror and ask themselves if they’re truly a face of modern business. Fortunately for Domo, it was able to answer that question with an emphatic “yes”—not just because it quickly developed resources and apps designed to help customers “get back to work,” but because it had a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and people like Nikki

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5 Ways Data Analytics Helps Us Understand the Student Lending Crisis

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics is giving us more insights into many of the most pressing challenges that we have faced as a society. More policymakers are using data to make more informed decisions. Analytics Insight shared a list of 10 major ways that big data is changing politics. The biggest benefits relate to using big data to understand voters and create models of voting patterns in various districts.

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Survey at-risk customers

Zoominfo

Scenario Identifying customers at risk of churn through a survey allows you to pinpoint renewal problems before they happen, potentially saving those customers. Email surveys to clients ahead of their renewal cycle to highlight any issues. If possible, include a gift offer to encourage participation. Assess their responses and take appropriate corrective actions to save the account.

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Wink, Inc. Releases Fourth Quarter, 2021 Life Sales Results

Wink Intel

— FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION — NEWS RELEASE. . INDEXED LIFE SALES BRING ANOTHER RECORD-SETTING YEAR! Wink, Inc. Releases Fourth Quarter, 2021 Life Sales Results. Des Moines, Iowa. March 3rd, 2022 – Wink, Inc. released the fourth quarter, 2021 life sales results in its 98 th edition of Wink’s Sales & Market Report. Wink’s Sales & Market Report is the insurance industry’s #1 resource for life insurance sales data, since 1997.

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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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Tourney time: 4 decades of March Madness data

Domo

It’s that time of year. In a lot of places around the U.S., the snow begins to melt, the days get longer, and people start to get back outside. There’s a special kind of excitement that comes with March and the onset of spring. But some of that excitement has nothing to do with the change of seasons. Instead, it’s generated by one of the great annual sporting events in the entire world: March Madness.

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Best Practices for Managing Your Sales Pipeline

Owler

What Is Sales Pipeline Management? When it comes to ensuring your deals are managed effectively, the importance of a well-managed sales pipeline cannot be overstated. A sales pipeline is a visualization of your sales process. It helps guide sales team members during their sales activities by providing an overview of the number of deals you have in progress and where sales prospects are in the overall process.

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Swap or add products mid-cycle for low usage customers

Zoominfo

Scenario For customers with low product usage, it’s better to get ahead of possible problems midway through a contract, rather than waiting for the client to ask for a refund or decline to renew. To avoid down-sell and preserve the account, initiate a mid-cycle conversation with the customer and swap or add products and services in exchange for features with low use.

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Forbes recognizes American National as one of ‘America’s Best Insurance Companies’

Wink Intel

GALVESTON, Texas, March 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — American National Insurance Company has been listed by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Insurance Companies” for 2022. The Galveston-based insurer was one of only 90 insurance companies across the nation to be recognized by the publication on its list of top insurers. To determine which companies were best serving consumers, Forbes partnered with Statista to survey more than 16,000 customers and get their feedback on these companies’

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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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8 Differences Between A Virtual White Label Remote Team And An Outsourcing Partner

E2M

Outsourcing, be it the traditional or white label, has been the backbone of many modern industries. According to a recent Deloitte survey , 70% of companies embraced outsourcing as a means of cost reduction, while 40% sought it to ensure flexibility. As an agency owner, this is what you are probably thinking. However, before jumping the gun, you need to understand the difference between traditional outsourcing and white labeling.

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Inbound Sales vs. Outbound Sales: What’s the Difference?

Owler

Inbound vs. Outbound Sales - Which is Best For Me? As you begin to build your sales practices, you’ll eventually reach a fork in the road: move forward with an inbound sales strategy or take the outbound sales approach? Though they appear similar, there is a subtle yet essential difference between inbound and outbound sales — and that is who initiates the sales process.

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Address low feature usage

Zoominfo

Scenario When customers aren’t using the full scope of the product they’re paying for, there’s a down-sell risk. Take a look at what each customer is paying for and pinpoint features that are underutilized or not used at all. Then deploy customer messaging highlighting the benefits and value of those features to show them how they can derive maximum value from their subscription.

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Integrated Deployment – Deploying an AutoML Application with Guided Analytics

Dataversity

Welcome to our collection of articles on the topic of integrated deployment, where we focus on solving the challenges around productionizing Data Science. So far, in this collection we have introduced the topic of integrated deployment, discussed the topics of continuous deployment and automated machine learning, and presented the autoML verified component.

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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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PowerBI incremental data refresh strategy

Stellar Consulting

PowerBI enables us to deliver business insights faster. However, we need to refresh the underlying data to keep the PowerBI reports/dashboards current. You might be experiencing failed or longer refresh times due to the large volume of data. This blog post is going to discuss how to improve your data refresh performance. PowerBI reports normally contain many tables which require scheduling and refreshing according to business requirements.

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8 Ideas for Using HubSpot Operations Hub to Improve Workflows, Data, and Reports

Weidert Group

Imagine tailgating before a beautiful Sunday afternoon football game. Everything is perfect, except your friend shows up empty-handed, failing in his only responsibility: bring the beer. What he knows and you don’t (yet) is that he automated the delivery of a truck equipped with tap handles and fresh suds from the local brewery. That brewery has an open API (application programming interface), and your friend uses HubSpot Operations Hub !

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The Anatomy of a Lead: Why Web Forms are Big Business

Zoominfo

We’ve all done it — visited a website and filled out a web form to request a demo or download a report. While it may seem like a small thing, these web form fills are responsible for billions of dollars of business, and companies like ZoomInfo have meticulously analyzed and optimized web forms to help sales reps make the most of these leads. At ZoomInfo, we recognize five distinct stages of a lead lifecycle: identify, qualify, connect, close and expand.

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