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Candid conversations

Stellar Partnerships

Kids are the most brutal critics. Perhaps that’s why so many people prefer dogs; they don’t care if you’re dressed badly or haven’t cleaned the house, you’ll still get a warm welcome and undying love. My daughter is training to be a teacher and she sees what kids write in their daily diaries. They are startlingly frank about their family’s shortcomings.

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6 Elements of Effective Strategic Planning

PLM Alliances

While the business operations framework is a continuous cycle in which each stage informs the next, developing a strategic plan is the best place to start. During the strategic planning process, an organization performs three steps: Builds or modifies the foundational strategic vision and mission. Commits to goals that drive overall health. Develops a long-term plan to achieve the goals.

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Best Project Portfolio Management Solutions

Channel Insider

To assist project managers, managed service providers ( MSP ), and business leaders everywhere with the never-ending evaluation, planning, and execution of projects, project portfolio management (PPM) software solutions offer a central platform for organizing and managing projects. Whether it’s managing your own business or evaluating multiple business lines, PPM can help harness insights for decision-making.

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The Advantages of a Strong Procurement Analytics Program

CenterPoint Group

Procurement and data analytics are two very different concepts that sound like they wouldn't belong in the same world, but many businesses have discovered that effectively combining them can result in some real benefits for everyone involved.

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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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4 tips to grow your influencer marketing campaign in Southeast Asia

Impact

Influencer marketing in Southeast Asia rapidly grows yearly due to increased internet users. In 2021 alone, 40 million new internet users came online — bringing internet penetration to 75 percent in the region. Eight out of ten of those new users purchased online at least once. With the region’s thriving internet economy, high levels of mobile usage, and youthful demographics, influencer marketing creates an effective growth strategy for brands and influencers.

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How IT Vendors Can Attract Channel Partners

Channel Insider

The channel has largely taken over from direct sales as the best way for IT vendors to sell their wares. Particularly when it comes to cybersecurity, the as-a-service market is booming. Managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) are steadily taking up more and more market share. Many IT vendors have launched their own subscription services in an attempt to safeguard market share.

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Best of Both Worlds: What Agile Project Management Can Do for Your AEC Firm

PSMJ Resources Blog

Disruption is a fact of life for companies in the architecture, engineering, and construction business. If it’s not a project delay due to supply chain issues, then maybe it’s an untimely resource shortage on your project teams or severe weather threatening to halt project work.

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Improve Your Sales Process to Ramp Up B2B Revenues

Market Source Inc

An inefficient B2B sales process can lead to lagging revenues. Business process engineering can spot areas of wasted time and effort and streamline sales so your reps get faster, better results. The post Improve Your Sales Process to Ramp Up B2B Revenues appeared first on MarketSource.

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How to Attract Top Talent Without Competing on Compensation

COO Alliance

Attracting Top Tier Talent can be a needle in a haystack situation…. Most of them are already in satisfying jobs. Or they expect 6-figure or even 7-figure compensation. In this post, you’ll discover: How to “attract” the right people who love working with you & your team (We are talking about those who are the first to come with a big smile on their face).

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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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MSPs Embrace Premium Services as They Manage Customer Experiences

Channel Insider

Managed service providers (MSPs) are always worrying about keeping up with changing customer needs — and having the skilled IT staff needed to provide all those services. MSPs face a seemingly endless supply of business and customer challenges and demands. Some may require MSPs to make small adjustments to their service offerings, while others might require a complete business makeover.

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4 Major Improvements to the AWS Partner Path

Tackle.io

In January 2022, AWS rolled out its ISV Partner Path to replace the previous APN Partnership tiers and improve the partnership process for ISVs. With AWS Partner Path, partnership tiers are based on the solution that the partner is providing—bringing wider access to a host of benefits that were previously unavailable under the APN Partnership tiers.

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A Culture to Fuel the Next Generation

Market Source Inc

MarketSource team members are bound by four core values—relationships, open communication, work ethic, and serving others. These are the ties that bind, and this is the difference culture makes. The post A Culture to Fuel the Next Generation appeared first on Migration.

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Edge Computing Drives Industrial IT/OT Convergence in Oil & Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing, and Automotive Verticals

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO – Aug. 25, 2022 – Industrial businesses continue to undergo rapid digital transformation as digitalization increases operational efficiency, productivity, and responsiveness to the market. Digital enterprises can create new, more competitive solutions and services and superior customer experiences. Gathering, analyzing, and utilizing vast amounts of data from equipment, processes, customers, and suppliers also drive this transformation.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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The Outlook of Leading Enterprise ERP in 2022

TRG Blog

The ERP Value Matrix is a well-known ERP ranking and evaluation report published annually by none other than the equally famous, market-leading technology research and analysis firm, Nucleus Research. Read more: Everything you need to know about ERP solutions.

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5 top tips for new corporate fundraisers 

Remarkable Partnerships

The early days of being a corporate fundraiser can be daunting. When I started as a corporate fundraiser I was in a brand new profession, in a new sector and I felt nervous, overwhelmed and alone. We want every corporate fundraiser to get off to the best possible start. Which is why we have created this blog sharing our five top tips for new corporate fundraisers.

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How publishers find brand partners for commerce content

Impact

Consumer behavior no longer supports an ad-first model for publishers. One survey showed that 56 percent of respondents prefer online shopping to a traditional in-person experience. Additionally, 59 percent of shoppers conduct online research before making a major purchase. As a result, publishers recognize commerce content as an increasingly attractive revenue stream.

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6 Elements of Effective Strategic Planning

PLM Alliances

While the business operations framework is a continuous cycle in which each stage informs the next, developing a strategic plan is the best place to start. During the strategic planning process, an organization performs three steps: Builds or modifies the foundational strategic vision and mission. Commits to goals that drive overall health. Develops a long-term plan to achieve the goals.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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3 Things Organizations Can Do to Create an Ethos of Transformation

Planview Blog

There’s no question that the last few years have had a tumultuous effect on businesses worldwide. Economic stimulus efforts, a global pandemic, global tensions and geopolitical issues, societal unrest – all of those events have altered how organizations bring their products, goods, and services to market. Many companies have responded to this era of intense uncertainty with massive changes of their own, from enacting new operating models to architecting new customer experiences, and more.

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Automated Pentesting and Profit: Part 1

Managed Services Platform

Apple Podcasts: [link] Spotify: [link] Youtube:[link] Vulnerability assessments and penetration testing - more commonly known as pen testing - play a huge role in cyber security, something that is more important than ever. According to a report by Dark Reading, businesses suffered a 50% increase in cyberattack attempts per week in 2021. This huge increase should alert all business owners to ensure their networks are adequately protected.

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6 tips to boost your influencer marketing ROI in Indonesia

Impact

For many people, social media likely takes up a large portion of your time no matter how you spend your day. Let’s look at Indonesia: the average daily time spent on the internet is eight hours and 52 minutes — mostly from streaming and social media. Add a social media penetration rate of 88 percent to that, and you quickly realise that influencer marketing should be your top priority.

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How to Achieve Sustainable Growth With a Partner Journey Map

PLM Alliances

6 keys for building an effective partner journey. Investing in your partner journey is essential to growing your business. Similar to a customer journey, a partner journey is a set of phases a partner moves through as they build their relationship with a vendor. We believe every good partner journey has five phases, that each phase plays a specific role and that they all depend on one another.

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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.

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Wading Through the Hype of High Retail Inventory, Inflation and More

Market Source Inc

The post Wading Through the Hype of High Retail Inventory, Inflation and More appeared first on Migration.

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This 5-word question can reveal any interview candidate’s real traits…

COO Alliance

Mark was an accomplished COO of a reputable organization in New York. He was a typical high anxiety, hard-working executive. He started as a supervisor and worked his way up the ladder… Now he has a very big problem. All of the new responsibilities are overwhelming him. How is he supposed to drive the company’s growth, keep track of key tasks, maintain a schedule & not miss any meetings?

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New Research from impact.com Shows Shifting Power Dynamic that Puts Influencers at the Center of the Brand-Consumer Relationship

Impact

impact.com, in partnership with WARC, examines how the pandemic-driven growth of influencer marketing has accelerated influencers’ role in the consumer journey, and offers guidance for how brands and influencers can create mutually beneficial partnerships. NEW YORK – Aug. 23, 2022 – impact.com, the leading partnership management platform, in partnership with WARC, an international marketing intelligence company, today released an in-depth research report on the rapidly evolving brand-influencer

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3 Fundamentals Of Effective Strategic Initiatives

PLM Alliances

Execution of strategic initiatives goes beyond project management. The three tenets of successful initiative execution are discipline, transparency, and efficiency. Our experts at the Spur Group, have identified the tenets of successful initiative execution. At the highest level, strong strategic initiatives are executed with discipline, transparency, and efficiency.

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How to Measure the ROI of IT Operations

IT is viewed as a cost center by organizations. In troubling economic times, this puts intense pressure on IT to demonstrate value for IT investments. Register for this webinar to learn how to quantify the intrinsic benefits of IT using analytics.

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Definitive Guide to Choosing a Managed Sales Partner

Market Source Inc

The post Definitive Guide to Choosing a Managed Sales Partner appeared first on Migration.

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How to Attract Top Talent Without Competing on Compensation

COO Alliance

Attracting Top Tier Talent can be a needle in a haystack situation… Most of them are already in satisfying jobs. Or they expect 6-figure or even 7-figure compensation. In this post, you’ll discover: How to “attract” the right people who love working with you & your team (We are talking about those who are the first to come with a big smile on their face).

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Ready for the holidays? Unwrap your partnerships guide to an extraordinary Q4 

Impact

‘Tis almost the giving season, and while holiday retail forecasts come into view, consumers ready their wallets for year-end promos, deals, and splurges. This year feels a little different as inflation rates rise faster than brands can pass along these costs to consumers. Salesforce predicts, for example, that this holiday’s top behavioral change will be even earlier buying, with consumers hoping to purchase gifts early in case prices rise.

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