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The Business Leader’s Guide to Marketing and Sales Alignment

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Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads and in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. As it turns out—neither team is wrong. Research shows the average sales team ignores 50% of marketing leads ( source ).

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Toyota Forklifts introduces new heavy-duty trucks

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New adjustable wheelbase forklifts can lift 15,000 to 80,000 pounds, adds safety and confidence when handling large, bulky, and oddly shaped loads like machinery, the company says.

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Self-Serve Data Preparation for Business Users

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Is Self-Serve Data Preparation Really Possible? Your business users are ready to do the job! They have a lot of data spread across the enterprise in various data repositories and forms and they want to pull it all together and analyze the data to get the answers to the questions you ask them every day. But, preparing that data is not easy. In the old days, team members would reach into a file cabinet and pull out folders with the right information.

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Comment on 7 Types Of Competitor Analysis Tools by Fred Johnson

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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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Support Your Sales Team: A Guide for Managers

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Every sales manager wants their team to be successful– but sometimes, that’s easier said than done. Sales reps face a number of obstacles that can keep them from their goals and it’s your job as their manager to help them overcome these challenges. To put it simply, sales reps are only as effective as their managers enable them to be. Today’s post breaks down five ways you can support your sales team to become more productive.

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Predictive Analytics for Business Users!

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Can Business Users Adopt Assisted Predictive Modeling? Assisted predictive modeling is no longer the sole domain of data scientists and IT staff. With the right predictive analytics tools, your business users can accurately plan and forecast results and share data to build a dependable picture of the future for your organization, and for each team, division and individual.

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Litmos Pricing: Features, Costs and Top LMS Alternatives

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Litmos is a cloud-based learning management system that tailors its solutions to four distinct categories: Employee, Customer, Compliance and Channel. It has intuitive features that focus on automating time-consuming tasks associated with training and improving the learner experience. We’ve reviewed Litmos in the past, but this post will focus on its pricing plans and the […].

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4 Signs Your Customer and Contact Database Needs Help

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Though you may not realize it, your sales and marketing database is one of your company’s most valuable assets. When compromised by dirty data, your entire business will feel the impact. In fact, more than 40% of business objectives fail due to inaccurate data ( source ). Worried about data quality? Here are four sure signs your B2B database could use a little help. 1.

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Can IT help the shipping industry deep-six the container "no-show" problem?

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Better visibility, forecasting, and ironclad digital contracts are all in play in a bid to end the vicious cycle.

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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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Business Intelligence Integrated with Tally®!

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Can My Business Get a Business Intelligence Solution for Tally Users? If you work in business, you use technology and software. If you use software, you have most likely come up against a software ‘silo’; one of those frustrating tools that you love for what it can do and hate for how restricted it makes you feel. You can’t integrate data or tasks with other crucial systems and you live in a world of workarounds.

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Teamsters council in New England urges ABF members to reject contract proposal

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Offer would be major haircut to worker pensions, Joint Council 10 leader says.

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Fetch Robotics adds two models for material handling operations

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CartConnect and RollerTop robots can be integrated into any warehouse workflow, Fetch says.

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Video offers tips on dock safety

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Animated short looks at common hazards as well as protective measures.

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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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Phillips Industries introduces device that confirms a tractor/trailer electrical connection

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Phillips Industries, a manufacturer of electrical and air brake system components, has introduced a device that confirms an electrical connection between a tractor and trailer.

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XPO patrols parking lots with security robot

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Knightscope robot monitors employees' parking lot at Atlanta facility.

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Logistics gives back

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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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EnerSys adds models to line of lift truck batteries

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Fast-charging batteries can drive counterbalance trucks, reach trucks, pallet trucks, and AGVs, firm says.

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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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TriStar and World Wide Technology team up to build 176-acre logistics campus

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Illinois facility includes two new buildings that will total 2.025 million square feet.

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6 River Systems announces $25 million funding for warehouse robots

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Money will be used for improvements to "Chuck" robots' decision-making abilities, expansion of sales in Europe, firm says.

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RightHand and Vecna offer combined piece-picking and mobile robots

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Partnership could reduce picking errors and human touches of inventory, alleviate labor shortages, RightHand says.

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Ryder acquires MXD Group in push into last-mile heavy-goods delivery

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$120 million acquisition gives Ryder 121 e-commerce fulfillment centers in U.S, Canada.

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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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Orbis acquires custom dunnage provider Response Packaging

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Move reinforces Orbis' presence in automotive parts packaging sector, Orbis says.

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Mobile TV helps fleet hold onto drivers

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Oklahoma carrier credits in-cab satellite TV with boosting recruitment and retention.

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Warehouse network ill-suited for e-commerce needs, report finds

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New construction activity makes just minor dent in the problem, CBRE says.

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Study: 95 percent of wooden pallets are recycled instead of landfilled

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Virginia Tech says brokers collect used pallets from DCs for repair, resale, or mulching.

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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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FMC begins investigation into demurrage, detention practices

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Dye, FMC commissioner, urges all maritime stakeholders to get involved in probe.

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NFI lands transportation award from Lowe's

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Recognition awarded at retailer's annual transportation conference.

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New OnTrac vehicle delivers pitchers, not packages

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Package delivery firm sponsors Diamondbacks' new bullpen cart.

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