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How AI Can Accelerate Sales and Bridge the Marketing Gap

Sales and Marketing Management

Historically, analytics in these two domains has provided a static view of the customer, but AI is getting companies closer than ever before to a true 360-view of the customer, which is becoming more and more necessary. Predicting consumer trends for goods with short buying cycles.

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Start with a Dashboard Says IBM’s Ed Abrams

Score More Sales

Griffin / OTUS Analytics. The outlook for small-and -medium-sized (SMB) businesses includes a lot of looking toward cloud computing and improved analytics, according to Ed Abrams, IBM’s VP Marketing and Strategy for SMBs. According to Ed Abrams, start with simple, analytics dashboards. courtesy of M.

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Can Your 1.0 Talent Succeed in a Sales 2.0 World?

SBI Growth

Framework for Predictive HR Analytics. Every organization is different, but the need for predictive analytics is common. It can be challenging to select the "critical few" analytics and customize them. Finish up 2012 with your current metrics and then implement a clean slate for 2013. Benchmark against peers.

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4 Reasons Why CMO’s Should Care About Buyer Personas Today

SBI Growth

Top Heavy on Analytics. Your are trying to makes sense of the slides of analytical data provided by your marketing operations manager. The rise of analytics comes with many promises that you are going to know everything you need to develop a marketing strategy. There they sit before you on your laptop screen. You stare at them.

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Top 10 Allego Milestones

Allego

The aha moment happened during a client engagement in 2012, when Mark noticed that the company had purchased iPads for its entire sales force. Looking ahead, we’ll continue to mine trends and anticipate buyer and seller behavior to see patterns that will drive our roadmap. a leading sales and presentation training firm. Learn More.

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CMOs: Wield Powers of Influence to Gain a Seat at the Executive Table

Pointclear

According to a recent CSOinsights 2012 Sales Performance Optimization survey, a mere 11% of sales people have a strong understanding of their customers’ buying process. The key is to unearth trends and anomalies and make the necessary adjustments, while also tying marketing activities to revenues generated.

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PowerViews with Dave Munn: The Transformed Marketing Organization

Pointclear

2012 Trending: Significant Transformation for Marketing Groups. People are investing in data analytics skills, and they are bringing people from outside organizations—whether it’s from product companies or directly from consulting companies.”. ITSMA Conference: Marketing's New Value Proposition, October 30 – 31, 2012.