March, 2020

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Maintaining a positive mindset in a bad economy

Jake Jorgovan

The economy is taking a drastic hit. It will impact all of our businesses. That's a fact. But how you choose to react in this moment, that is up to you. In this article, I'm going to share the mental frameworks I am using to keep positive amidst the chaos of the world and markets. Now is the perfect time to study stoicism If you haven't already hopped on the stoicism train, now is a great time to do so.

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Coronavirus & Working from Home: Part 6 – Staying on Task

AM Consulting

Working from Home — Staying on Task & Being Productive “I could not do that,” many tell me after learning that I work from home. Some fear they would get distracted by that next load of laundry (“I’ll just get it started”), which leads to discovering the handle to the cabinet needs adjusting (“This will […]. The post Coronavirus & Working from Home: Part 6 – Staying on Task appeared first on Alliances Management Consulting.

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CMP: A Dedication to the Meeting Profession

Partners Preceptors

By Kristyn McCauley, CMP There are many acronyms in the association world, especially when you work for an association management company, and one of those acronyms you may see pop-up is CMP. Most often spotted after someone’s name, the acronym “CMP” stands for Certified Meeting Professional.

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Where Do We Go From Here? Small Businesses and Coronavirus

Ground Floor Partners

We all need to plan for the unexpected, but we also need to change our plans when the unexpected happens. While many epidemiologists and public health experts have been warning about a possible pandemic for decades, most of us were blissfully unaware of the danger. Then came coronavirus. Hopefully it will run its course with as few deaths and as little economic disruption as possible.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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The Real Reason You’re Struggling with Engagement

MMI Inc

Not too long ago, employee engagement was viewed as a human resources function. Now, more organizations are starting to recognize Read More ?. The post The Real Reason You’re Struggling with Engagement appeared first on Matrix Management Institute.

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Why entrepreneurs should learn about acquisitions, even if they don't want to sell

Jake Jorgovan

Since I was 19, I've been running my own companies. Yet, it wasn't until last year that I even began to think about the idea of "selling" the companies I've built. While the idea was always somewhat on my mind, I didn't even think it was possible or I was anywhere close to being capable of producing something of that value. Ironically, the lack of understanding acquisitions was actually limiting me as an entrepreneur in building something worth acquiring.

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Coronavirus & Working from Home: Part 5 – Creating and Maintaining a Routine

AM Consulting

Creating and Maintaining a Routine An Employee’s Guide to Maximizing Work-from-Home Productivity COVID-19 is creating a new frontier, with mass closures, cities on lockdown and travel bans on a global scale. Each day is starting to feel more like Groundhog Day. You may now find yourself working remotely, possibly for the first time and foreseeable […].

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7 tips on how to survive home office

SamePage

Working from home can be challenging. There are a lot of distractions from work that you would ordinarily do when you arrive home from work - like laundry. Keep in mind that not blending your free and work time together is crucial; otherwise, you will lose balance and will either work too much or not work hard enough. Language.

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Leadership in Times of Crisis

Collaboration LLC

By Michael Gunther. I don’t know about you, but being a business owner and team leader as the Coronavirus Pandemic continues to unfold has created a level of stress and ambiguity on how this situation may impact our families, our clients, our teams and our communities. I know this is unchartered territory for most of us on our leadership journey. It is at times like this that test our leadership, as well as our desire to problem solve to stabilize our situation.

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How to Build Competitive Channel Programs: Advice from 7 Channel Experts

The tech world is crowded. And that means the stakes for channel management have never been higher. How do you cut through the noise? Are SPIFFs, business plans, and marketing development funds really worth it? Get real-world, boots-on-the-ground insight into what it takes to build a partner relationship management motion that attracts, trains, retains, and motivates the right partners.

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A Report on the Deepfake Detection Challenge

Partnership on AI

To expand upon our previous blog , the Partnership on AI and members of the AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee are proud to share a report out of our collective efforts in the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC). In this report, we present six key insights and associated recommendations that can inform future work on synthetic media detection, many of which extend to AI and its impact on media integrity more broadly.

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IEEE ISTO Marks 20 Years of Helping Small Groups Quickly Develop Technical Specs

ISTO / IEEE

The technologies include blockchain, Internet of Things, and smart cities. For the past 20 years, the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization has taken on the administrative tasks involved with setting up not-for-profit industry trade groups—the sort that consortia, industry alliances, and startups need in order to develop technical standards.

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How to Identify Industry Trends

Hype

This is the fourth blog post in HYPE’s series on the most-often-asked questions about strategic foresight. While the second post provided guidance, practical tips, and examples on how to get started with brainstorming the future of your market , this post offers insight on where and how to identify industry trends to support brainstorming and other foresight activities.

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Coronavirus & Working from Home: Part 4 – Key Technology Platforms

AM Consulting

Key Technology Platforms From Employee Collaboration Tools to Cloud-Based Systems For more than a decade our company has worked remotely. Our clients live in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. “Remote work” is a way of life for us and our clients. However, we’re aware that most employees still go into an office. Writing a set […]. The post Coronavirus & Working from Home: Part 4 – Key Technology Platforms appeared first on Alliances Management Consulting.

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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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Voice message

SamePage

If only typing on mobile was easier. The keyboard is too small, your fingers might be frozen due to winter, and the whole endeavor of texting what you meant to your teammates is driving you crazy! Thankfully Samepage is always looking for the best user experience. Instead of typing a message, you can record a voice message and attach it to the chat.

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What Coronavirus Means for Franchise Brands and a Roadmap for Franchise Recovery

Internicola Law Firm

“We don’t know what we don’t know.”. Today, March 17, 2020, that is the sentiment for all Americans, small businesses, and, for the focus of this article – franchisors! What we don’t know if the stage of this pandemic in the United States, judging by other nations such as China, Italy, and Spain, it appears that we are only now entering the pandemic phase and with an escalation of COVID-19 infections on the rise with store closings and an escalating drop in consumer demand.

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Partnership on AI & First Draft Begin Investigating Labels for Manipulated Media

Partnership on AI

In the months since we announced the PAI/First Draft Media Manipulation Research Fellowship, the need for collaborative, rigorous research on whether to add descriptive labels that explain manipulated and synthetic media, and how to do this so audiences understand those labels, has become increasingly urgent. Technology platforms and media entities not only face challenges when evaluating whether or not audio-visual content is manipulated and/or misleading, but they must also determine how to ta

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Work from Home

Chameleon Sales

The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly changing the way many people around the globe work. Especially here in the United States as local governments are issuing shelter-in-place orders and the closing non-essential businesses. These orders are moving people out of the corporate office and into the home office. There are many challenges that accompany this shift.

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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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Shifting the Focus of Your Idea Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hype

In the past two months, we have seen a significant increase in awareness of the business challenges associated with responding to COVID-19, aka coronavirus, effectively. Governments, companies, and institutions are all wrestling to find an appropriate way to respond, balancing how to keep people safe, how to keep businesses open, and how to deal with an unprecedented set of health, social, and employee challenges.

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Coronavirus & Working from Home: Part 8 – What Not to Do

AM Consulting

What Not to Do When Working from Home Mistakes we’ve witnessed and how to avoid them Over the past seven posts in our Coronavirus & Working from Home series, we’ve shared our insights for effectively working from home, covering childcare, technology, security, routines, flexibility, and distractions. As many of us try to cope with working […].

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Samepage Response to COVID-19 Crisis

SamePage

As the global impact of COVID-19 continues to spread and affects millions of people and businesses around the globe, Samepage is committed to helping our customers and users survive and thrive in this very challenging and unprecedented time in history. Language.

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Franchise Development and Legal Steps Franchisors Should Take to Recover from the Coronavirus Pandemic

Internicola Law Firm

In our article “ What Coronavirus Means for Franchise Brands and a Roadmap for Franchise Recovery ” and part 1 of our three-part webinar “ What Coronavirus (COVID-19) will Mean for Franchise Brands ”, we outlined a recovery framework focused on strategic planning during the following three stages of this pandemic: (a) short-term phase, as the pandemic escalates to peak levels in the United States now and over the next 1, 2, 3, (?

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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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To Prevent Algorithmic Bias, Legal and Technical Definitions around Algorithmic Fairness Must Align

Partnership on AI

PAI research highlights a divergence between legal and machine learning terminology related to fairness and bias. These two communities must collaborate and align in order to effectively prevent bias and promote fair algorithmic practices. From racially disparate risk assessments in the criminal justice system to gender-discriminatory hiring decisions in the workplace, examples of potential biases in high-stakes algorithmic decision-making have raised public awareness of the issue and prompted t

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Managing Cashflow: Reducing and deferring expenses

Better Business for Good Company

A guide to surviving COVID-19 for SMEs Resource Library General Resources Accessing Govt Support Cashflow management Minimising workplace risk Supporting & Paying Staff Working from home Managing Cashflow: Reducing and deferring expenses Reducing Expenses Can you reduce your staff? Qantas has set the standard by standing down 20,000 staff with no pay.

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Building a Culture for a Collaborative Ecosystem

Phoenix Consulting Group

Building a partner ecosystem is hard. But what’s harder than building an ecosystem? Building a culture that supports an ecosystem strategy. I spoke with one executive who was responsible for building the partner ecosystem at a well-known payroll processor, and our discussion perfectly illustrated this challenge. The executive’s decades-old company was expanding beyond payroll processing into a full suite of human resources tools in the cloud, which was enabled through partners.

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Coronavirus & Working from Home: Part 7 – Security

AM Consulting

Ensuring the Security of Data & Devices: Protecting Company and Client Information Even in normal times, companies that allow their employees to work remotely should perform risk assessments of their remote workers’ computing setups, as this is essential to protect company and client information. For companies without such processes in place, now is a good […].

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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Coronavirus? Who knows what will happen

SamePage

Everyone is talking about Coronavirus these days, especially tech companies. Some seem downright gleeful, which I find disturbing. The risk-on trade on Wall Street these days has Zoom as the ultimate hedge against this pandemic. Language.

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Franchising Your Restaurant

Internicola Law Firm

If you are considering franchising your restaurant – depending if you are reading this article during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic or, more likely, as we ease out of and recover from this pandemic – the restaurant industry, the franchise industry, small business, and the world has changed. Health, safety, families and our nation are naturally our first and foremost priority but so is recovery, growth and rebuilding!

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What Businesses can do while isolated

Company Partners Blog

Coronavirus has impacted businesses in a way that was unthinkable just weeks ago. No business will have planned for this and the smaller ones will be more vulnerable. I believe though that when we get through this crisis it will be those that have used this period of forced isolation and closure to prepared themselves that will rise fastest and even make gains on competition that have not been proactive.

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