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Why Technology Is Ruining Our Mental Health

No More Cold Calling

Or, they’re walking with their wireless earbuds in, talking so loudly that everyone can hear. Barely a week passes without another study raising concerns about our compulsive use of smartphones and social media. We’ve become so addicted to our phones, that we can’t function without them. Our digital dependence is harmful to our health.

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How an NFC Payment Works & Why More Businesses Are Accepting Them

Hubspot Sales

According to a study by Mastercard , nearly 80% of consumers said they use contactless payments. NFC is derived from RFID (radio-frequency identification), a wireless communication system that uses radio waves at different frequencies to transfer data. NFC and RFID are similar in that they are both wireless technologies.

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Why Technology Is Ruining Our Mental Health

No More Cold Calling

Or, they’re walking with their wireless earbuds in, talking so loudly that everyone can hear. Barely a week passes without another study raising concerns about our compulsive use of smartphones and social media. We’ve become so addicted to our phones, that we can’t function without them. Our digital dependence is harmful to our health.

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Midsize Business Optimistic

Score More Sales

So says the study done by The Hartford, in September of this year, called the 2014 Midsize Business Monitor. You can see more about the study here. Expand geo footprint (61%). 500 business owners and C-level executives of mid-sized businesses in the U.S. participated. 53% use Internet (VoIP) phone services. 13% are considering drones.

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Gabb Wireless Decreases Agent Ramp Time by 80% with Online Training and Coaching

Lessonly

“Lessonly has been an all-in-one partner for our learning experience, and that’s been really valuable for our company. Now, we’re able to provide our agents with a really robust training experience.”.

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The Pipeline

Picture yourself as the person getting the calls, dozens of calls every week, from the copier rep, the wireless rep, the IT integrator rep, the office supply rep, the transportation rep, the sales training rep, and the oodles of other reps. This unnecessarily extends the length of their sale cycle, or kills the sale all together.

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[Missed Connections] Referral Selling Insights from June

No More Cold Calling

We haven’t rewired ourselves just because the world has gone wireless. A 2011 study by Facebook and the University of Milan, which mined data from the social media site’s 721 million active users, found that the number of intermediate links between two strangers—or “degrees of separation”—is now only 4.74. Test Your Referral Savvy.

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