Sat.Nov 03, 2018 - Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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How to Get More Value From Your B2B Data Purchase

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Data is a big investment for any company— but, if you research vendors and invest intelligently, it can have a dramatic impact on your company’s financial success and growth. However, if you’re not smart about your purchase, bad data quickly becomes a costly mistake. Don’t let your data come back to bite you. Check out our tips for getting the most out of your next B2B data purchase. 1.

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The cost of a failed delivery continues to rise, survey shows

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84 percent of shoppers are unlikely to return to a retailer after just one negative experience, Convey, Inc.'s third annual consumer expectations survey finds.

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Quick Tips: How to Enable Dataflows In Power BI Service

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Dataflows (Preview) in Power BI Service has been landed yesterday (6th November 2018). I had a little bit of difficulties to enable this cool new feature so I thought it is good to write a Quick tip about it. While Dataflows is under preveiw at the time of writing this quick tip, the situation may … Continue reading Quick Tips: How to Enable Dataflows In Power BI Service.

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The Difference Between URL Structure and Information Architecture - Whiteboard Friday

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Posted by willcritchlow Questions about URL structure and information architecture are easy to get confused, but it's an important distinction to maintain. IA tends to be more impactful than URL decisions alone, but advice given around IA often defaults to suggestions on how to best structure your URLs. In this Whiteboard Friday, Will Critchlow helps us distinguish between the two disparate topics and shares some guiding questions to ask about each.

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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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How to Build a Better B2B Sales Tech Stack

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B2B sales leaders are constantly looking for tools and technologies that offer insight into their team’s productivity—tools also known as Sales Force Automation (SFA). The problem is that SFA tools, particularly CRM, only facilitate measurement, rather than the sales process itself. This is not to say reporting and measurement aren’t paramount to achieving company growth; it absolutely is.

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Gartner flags 10 strategic tech trends for 2019

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Convergence of emerging technologies will create disruption and spawn new business models, firm says.

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Quick Tips: How to Enable Dataflows In Power BI Service

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Dataflows (Preview) in Power BI Service has been landed yesterday (6th November 2018). I had a little bit of difficulties to enable this cool new feature so I thought it is good to write a Quick tip about it. While Dataflows is under preveiw at the time of writing this quick tip, the situation may … Continue reading Quick Tips: How to Enable Dataflows In Power BI Service.

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7 Ways to Improve Your B2B Job Descriptions

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As important as it is for job candidates to make a good first impression, it’s equally important for the hiring company to do so, too. To help you impress job applicants and attract top talent, we give you seven ways to improve your B2B job descriptions. With just a few small changes to your job descriptions, you can improve the quality of your candidates and the efficiency of the hiring process.

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Warehousing and logistics firms open Cool Port Oakland

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Lineage Logistics and Dreisbach Enterprises launch temperature-controlled food storage and transportation facility at California's Port of Oakland.

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Bring a new dimension to your Market Intelligence Projects with Digimind Marketplace

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The Market Intelligence function is undergoing profound changes. Web data has become multi-faceted and its volume continues to grow, and at the same time numerous business tools have been widely adopted by business users.

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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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3 Overlooked CMMS Features that Can Maximize ROI

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By Ashley Bullin, DPSI Many organizations take advantage of the vast work order management opportunities included in computerized maintenance management software (CMMS). However, there are many other useful CMMS features available that companies fail to utilize. There’s no denying the appeal of work order management capabilities within CMMS software.

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7 Ways to Improve Your B2B Job Descriptions

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As important as it is for job candidates to make a good first impression, it’s equally important for the hiring company to do so, too. To help you impress job applicants and attract top talent, we give you seven ways to improve your B2B job descriptions. With just a few small changes to your job descriptions, you can improve the quality of your candidates and the efficiency of the hiring process.

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Speaker: artificial intelligence is about to trigger a new reality for logistics

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Companies that don't adapt before their peers will get run over by this "technology train," GT Nexus founder tells 3PL conference.

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What the Local Customer Service Ecosystem Looks Like in 2019

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Posted by MiriamEllis Everything your brand does in the new year should support just one goal: better local customer service. Does this sound too simple? Doesn’t marketing brim with a thousand different tasks? Of course — but if the goal of each initiative isn’t to serve the customer better, it’s time for a change of business heart. By putting customers, and their problems, at the absolute center of your brand’s strategy, your enterprise will continuously return to this heart of the matter, this

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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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Geopolitics, technological innovation top global transport industry concerns

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Majority of companies surveyed say autonomous trucks will be a "viable option" within the next 10 years, IRU study shows.

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Retail imports remain strong ahead of tariff increase

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Politically motivated trade environment fuels higher-than-usual activity at major U.S. ports, NRF-Hackett report says.

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Amazon expands free shipping for the holiday season

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Online retailer says all U.S. customers will get free shipping for a limited time, beginning November 5.

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XPO says software pilot projects could generate $100 million profit in two years

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Transportation giant applies algorithms and AI to rout out inefficiencies in LTL network.

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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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Zebra Technologies invests in e-commerce automation startup Plus One Robotics

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Plus One raises $8.3 million in venture round, will advance piece-picking platform for order fulfillment and parcel shipping.

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FedEx increases shipping rates

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Transport and logistics provider says it will raise rates for Express, Ground and Freight shipping starting in January.

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FedEx Ground marks opening of Lehigh Valley hub

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At 850,000 square feet, facility is newest and largest hub in logistics provider's network, company says.

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Turvo raises $60 million for supply chain collaboration and visibility platform

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Tech startup's investors include UAE's Mubadala and venture firms G2VP, Next47.

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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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Airfreight growth rises 2 percent in September

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Capacity outstrips demand for seventh straight month, IATA reports.

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Businesses need creative data sources to apply effective AI, speaker says.

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Best results will come from unexpected places, IBM exec tells 3PL conference.

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How to Use Visuals to Enhance the B2B Buyer’s Journey

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Making a purchase in a brick and mortar store is an inherently visual experience. Customers typically look through a number of items, spot something they need or want, and put their hands on the product before deciding to buy it. The modern B2B buying journey, on the other hand, is much more complex. The B2B buying experience primarily takes place on the web rather than in person.

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5 Steps to Structuring Your Marketing Strategy

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Structuring a marketing strategy is a complicated task. As a marketer, you’re expected to stay within a pre-determined budget and come up with viable, affordable opportunities to bring in qualified leads. It’s a lot of moving pieces for one person to manage. But, fear not dear marketer. The steps outlined in today’s blog post take a simplistic look at the most vital components of any marketing strategy.

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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.