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Analytics & Testing
ActionIQ: A Next Generation Customer Data Platform To Align People, Technology, And Processes
If you’re an enterprise company where you have distributed data in multiple systems, a Customer Data Platform (CDP) is almost a necessity. Systems are often designed towards an internal corporate process or automation… not the ability to view activity or data across the customer journey. Before Customer Data Platforms hit the market, the resources necessary to integrate other platforms inhibited…
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Sales and Marketing Training
10 Reasons A Company May Want to Build A Solution Versus Licensing One (And Reasons Not To)
Recently, I wrote an article advising companies not to host their videos on their infrastructure. There was some pushback from some techies who understood the ins and outs of video hosting. They had some excellent points, but video requires an audience, and many video hosting platforms provide a solution AND the audience. In fact, YouTube is the second most searched…
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Customer Data Platforms
Why Sales and Marketing Teams Need Cloud ERP
Marketing and sales leaders are integral components in driving company revenue. The marketing department is vital in promoting the business, detailing its offerings, and establishing its differentiators. Marketing also generates interest in the product and creates leads or prospects. In concert, sales teams focus on converting prospects to paying customers. The functions are closely intertwined and critical to a business’s…
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Customer Data Platforms
B2B Acquisition: How To Prioritize Your Outbound Sales With Company Profile Matching
Business-to-business (B2B) acquisition can be quite daunting. If you are an organization that services a large region with few employees, you want to ensure that your acquisition strategy is efficient. If there are 50,000 businesses in the region, imagine you can contact 25 prospects per week or 5 per day. That would require you to have 20 salespeople. That’s pretty…
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Marketing Tools
Acquire.io: A Unified Customer Engagement Platform
Customers are the lifeblood of every business. Yet only a few companies can keep up with their evolving demands, leaving firms ready to invest in customer experience and improve their market share with a huge window of opportunity. Unsurprisingly, CX management has emerged as a top priority for business leaders who are investing increasing resources to achieve it. However, achieving…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Technology for Successful Sales Enablement
In today’s world, technology and sales enablement go hand in hand. It would be best to track your prospect’s activities to qualify them as hot or soft leads. How are prospects interacting with your brand? Are they interacting with your brand? What tools are you using to track this? We worked with a sales proposal platform to create an infographic…
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Public Relations
A 4-Point Plan to Transform Your B2B Customers into Brand Evangelists
If you spent an evening in a city you’d never visited before and had two restaurant recommendations, one from the hotel concierge and one from a friend, you’d probably follow your friend’s advice. We generally find the opinions of people we know and like more credible than a stranger’s recommendation — it’s just human nature. That’s also why business-to-consumer (B2C) brands…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
What Is Sales Enablement? How Important Is It?
Sales enablement has evolved into a critical initiative for any organization that wants to improve its sales performance and drive revenue growth. By investing in sales enablement, organizations can empower their sales teams to be more successful and achieve their goals. While sales enablement technology is proven to increase revenue by 66%, thought: 93% of companies have yet to implement a…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Why Field Sales and Marketing Should Look Beyond the Traditional CRM
As the world becomes increasingly impersonal with the emergence of technology – social media, video chatting, etc. An opportunity has presented itself in a very real way. A concept that once came naturally, intuitive, and existed pretty much as an afterthought has been relegated to an inconvenient, more expensive time-consuming adaptation. Physically getting in front of the people you want…
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Artificial Intelligence
How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Businesses
Artificial Intelligence is shining brightly in the software industry with its capabilities. Companies are capitalizing on artificial intelligence as it continues to scale and evolve. Over the past few years, we have heard many success stories regarding artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial intelligence has been excelling, from Amazon’s operational efficiencies to GE’s ability to keep its equipment running. In today’s world, not only large corporations…