Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Predictive analytics is one of the biggest disruptive technologies shaping the eCommerce industry. IQLECT published an article on this last year titled The Importance of Predictive Analytics for E-commerce Stores. The article pointed out that companies have lagged implementing predictive analytics technology, due to cost and complexity concerns. However, this has changed as new AI technology has become more widely available.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Should you be putting more thought into your cold email subject lines? The answer is yes. Do you have time to read through a million examples of email subject lines to find the best ones? We’ll go ahead and assume the answer is no. We sifted through top blogs to find the best email subject lines, plus some fresh, real-life examples from our own SMEs.

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Datapine Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As in many other industries, the information technology sector faces the age-old issue of producing IT reports that boost success by helping to maximize value from a tidal wave of digital data. While integral to organizational success and development, without the ability to gain actionable insights from your most important data, IT reporting could be considered somewhat of a fruitless exercise.

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Moz

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Posted by Alex-T Life has taught me that good things should be expensive — especially when it comes to any type of digital marketing services. If you’re not an expert, you can end up getting something far from what you’ve been expecting. Here’s an example of “the best mascot image you can get for your event” that I paid for when organizing one of our first Digital Olympus events: Just for reference, this is how our mascot looked originally: My point is, just like working with freelance designers

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Providing excellent customer service needs to be a priority for every business. Think of your customer service department as the personality of your brand. It is also the reason why people will choose your products and services on a repeated basis. It is quite simple really, with no customers, there is no company. The path that consumers travel on to make a purchase, is called the “customer journey.

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Digimind

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Conducting a competitive analysis is an essential step for every successful brand. Briefly, a competitive analysis is a living document that identifies and evaluates your competitors strategies to determine their strengths and weaknesses in relation to your own products and services. More generally, understanding and applying the insights gained from a competitive analysis will help you identify strengths and weaknesses that relate to brand health, community management, content strategy, and mor

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Moz

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Posted by RuthBurrReedy Clean, useful Google Analytics data is all-important — both for you, and for the clients and colleagues that will be working on the site in the future. Ruth Burr Reedy shares her absolute best tips for getting your Analytics data accurate, consistent, and future-proof in this week's Whiteboard Friday. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab!

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Big data is changing the role of the digital marketing profession. Companies can use big data to improve the effectiveness of their ad targeting, streamlining the user experience and measure the ROI better. Nicole Martin talked about the relevance of big data in digital marketing in her Forbes article. Smart businesses should make sure that their digital marketing agency knows how to leverage big data effectively.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 3 hours, the go-to-market teams at ZoomInfo made 24,000 calls, ended up on the phone with our customers and prospects for 250 hours, scheduled 400 follow up meetings, etc. Here’s how we did it. Is cold calling dead? Don’t worry: today’s blog post isn’t another rehashing of the same tired argument sales reps hear on a near-daily basis. We’ve written at length about the state of cold calling, and we’ve explained why the phone remains an essential tool in the modern sales rep’s arsenal.

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Digimind

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Conducting a competitive analysis is an essential step for every successful brand. Briefly, a competitive analysis is a living document that identifies and evaluates your competitors strategies to determine their strengths and weaknesses in relation to your own products and services. More generally, understanding and applying the insights gained from a competitive analysis will help you identify strengths and weaknesses that relate to brand health, community management, content strategy, and mor

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Moz

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Posted by MiriamEllis Think crafting is kids’ stuff? Think again. The owners of quilting, yarn, bead, fabric, woodworking, art supply, stationers, edible arts, and related shops know that: The crafting industry generated $44 billion in 2016 in the US alone. 63% of American households engage in at least one crafting project annually, while more than one in four participate in 5+ per year.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Yes, it’s AI again! Artificial Intelligence (AI) is always in the limelight from the last couple of years. Mostly it is considered as a blessing to the IT world. However, many experts have shown their doubtfulness too. No, you just can’t say “Ok Boomer” here! Of course, they have greater reasons i.e. a threat to data security. So, AI is on whose side?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Should you be putting more thought into your email subject lines for B2B sales? The answer is “yes.” Do you have time to read through a million examples of B2B email subject lines to find the best ones? We’ll go ahead and assume the answer is “no.” We sifted through top blogs to find the best cold email subject lines, plus some fresh, real-life examples from our own salespeople.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

It’s no secret that transformation is risky. For many, this risk outweighs the benefits of inactivity; McKinsey found that the rate of successful digital transformation is consistently low, with only 16% finding success over the long term. Within industries and business sizes, this also varies. Businesses with fewer than 100 employees are almost three times more likely to have fruitful transformational efforts compared to businesses with up to 50,000 employees.

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Elegant BI

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Social Business Intelligence Improves Collaboration and Results! What exactly is social business intelligence? The concept of Social BI is really quite simple. Social BI is similar to social media and social networking, in that it embraces the tasks associated with data analytics and makes these tasks and the resulting data insight a social experience by providing tools and an environment that encourages business users and team members to share data, make fact-based decisions based on that data

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes smarter and more advanced, we’ve started to see its usage grow across various industries. From retail and commerce to manufacturing, the technology continues to do some pretty amazing things in nearly every sector. The civil engineering field is no exception. An estimated 20 billion internet-connected devices will be active around the world by 2020.

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Happy Market

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In this episode, we’ll uncover the common factors across our guests that has lead them to happy careers in consumer insights and give you two key ways to drive organizational success from the hottest company in CX, UX, and MRx. Happy Market Research is closing the year with a four-part podcast series, highlighting industry challenges, trends and much more.

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Resonate

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Consumers today are faced with choice overload, and new factors are impacting the buying decisions and shopping behaviors of the modern shopper. Everything from a company’s charity donations to their online reviews influences a consumer’s decision about who they’ll do business with. How can you leverage these factors to gain a competitive edge? Harnessing powerful insights about who these shoppers are will help brands and retailers build more resonant products and services, create more compellin

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Contify

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Contify, the AI-enabled market and competitive intelligence solution for enterprises, has enhanced its offering with the launch of fully customisable portals to organise intelligence into separate modules for teams serving different functions and business verticals. The portals are designed to serve as a centralised intelligence hub to drive faster access to insights relevant to a specific team whilst storing the intelligence in a common platform for easy cross-reference.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Fraud has been an ongoing problem for quite some time now. Our technology may have become more sophisticated but so are criminals. It feels more secure now that we have several modes of verification but it’s still unsettling to see news of big companies like Facebook or Yahoo getting their data compromised. Fraud is not a small problem. The global cost of it is $4.2 trillion.

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Better Buys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Implementing computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software can have a significant impact on your maintenance operations. Over time, this impact increases as users learn the software, historical data is analyzed to facilitate changes, and a preventive maintenance schedule is implemented. CMMS software provides benefits that are both easy (quantitative measures) and not so easy (qualitative […].

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

Business Intelligence

Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We live in a digital era where every business aspect revolves around technology, making IT systems the core of modern-day operations. Primarily, the role that IT systems play begins and ends with data, which is the constant input and output of computerized devices. It is therefore not surprising that the current trend for businesses is to seek solutions for big data adoption and usage.

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