January, 2020

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I failed at selling Lead Cookie, here is what I learned

Jake Jorgovan

In early 2019, I made the decision that I was going to try to sell Lead Cookie over the course of the year. I had built the business to a good spot where it ran without me, and the idea of selling it and moving on to something new was quite appealing. Over the course of the year, I went through the process of preparing the business for acquisition, talking directly with buyers, listing with a broker, getting an LOI, and then having them back out of the deal.

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Decreasing the Chaos After an Organizational Restructure

MMI Inc

A global publishing company restructured its enterprises in an effort to better connect with local markets. Previously, each product line Read More ?. The post Decreasing the Chaos After an Organizational Restructure appeared first on Matrix Management Institute.

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Partnership on AI 2019 Annual Report: Building a Connected Community for Responsible AI

Partnership on AI

The following is an abbreviated excerpt from PAI’s 2019 Annual Report – Letter from the Founding Executive Director. The Partnership on AI was founded two years ago with a simple premise: AI is already having a transformative impact on our society, and the essential work of ensuring that AI technologies are fair, safe, just, and inclusive is a critical responsibility that must be collectively prioritized. .

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5 Strategies to Elevate Your Partner Program in the New Decade

Chaneltivity

With the start of each new year, we reflect on where we are today and what we’d like to achieve in the coming year. At the start of a new decade this seems to take on more gravitas, but while change in the channel is occurring , the strategies that consistently move the needle center around having strong foundational blocks—a well-honed partner journey, partner enablement, deal registration , etc.— within your program.

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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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Using Trello, Confluence or Basecamp? Time to check out Samepage.

SamePage

Are your teams using one application for task management, another for storing documents, and third one for a chat? What if there was a product that combined these features? Language.

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Why entrepreneurs need a hobby

Jake Jorgovan

"If you don't find some other outlet for your creative energy, you will just keep tinkering with your business." - Alex McClafferty It's amazing how one simple statement can create a ripple effect that can change the course of your life. This quote above is one that my business advisor shared with me about a year ago. And the impacts of that statement has led to massive changes and an increased fulfillment in my life.

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The dangers of being a Sole Trader

Company Partners Blog

There is a hidden danger that many people choosing the Sole Trader route to running a business are not aware of. Yes, operating as a Sole Trader is certainly the simplest way of running a business. There are no annual accounts to send to Companies House and most can run without needing to pay out for an Accountant. As a Sole Trader you are basically self-employed and although you will still need to pay personal tax on your income (through self assessment), you have no other legal commitments to

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Join The Partnership at FAT* 2020

Partnership on AI

Building Community around Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in AI. The impact of algorithmic systems on fairness, transparency, and accountability (FTA) is at the heart of the ACM FAT* Conference (January 27-30, 2020) where, for the third year, organizers are convening a diverse community of scholars and practitioners from computer science, law, social sciences, and humanities to address this important topic.

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12 Simple Steps for Effective Email Marketing by Jim Ries

Dinkel Business Development

Working professionals are sent dozens of emails on a daily basis. With so many emails flooding their inboxes, it can be difficult to grab their attention. Which is why it is of the utmost importance to understand effective email marketing techniques and how to use them to your advantage. Email marketing is a form of direct communication, in which a company delivers a commercial message to a list of people via electronic mail.

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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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Never miss a call again

SamePage

All you need is to click on the "Enable auto-call" button in the edit event dialog. When the event starts, phones and computers of all event participants will start to ring. This way, it's much easier to get everyone in the call. Language.

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Ronald Weltmer - President

Borgman Capital

Ronald Weltmer will be joining Gilman Cheese Corporation as the new President. Prior to joining Gilman Cheese Corporation, Ronald Weltmer was Vice President of Operations for Hilmar Cheese Company. Read More.

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How I successfully hired, trained, and handed off the sales role at Lead Cookie

Jake Jorgovan

One of the things fellow entrepreneurs ask me about the most is how I managed to get out of the sales seat at Lead Cookie. For many entrepreneurs, this is one of the hardest and scariest things to let go of since it is so closely tied to revenue. Yet, your fears are grounded in reality. The first time I tried this, I failed. The second time, I succeeded.

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The evolutions of freedom from your business

Jake Jorgovan

Freedom of time and money. That is what most of us are really aiming for as we go down the route of entrepreneurship. Some people may care more about time; others more about money. But in the end, these are two of the biggest aspects of freedom that your business can bring you. Yet, freedom from your business doesn't happen overnight. Instead, it happens in a series of evolutions.

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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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Bridging AI Principles to Practice with ABOUT ML

Partnership on AI

As a growing number of technology companies realize the importance of AI ethics and create AI principles that embody their values, it remains a struggle to uphold these principles in practice. Resource-constrained teams, engineers, product managers, and others involved in AI development – all working towards tight deadlines and ambitious quarterly goals – are often unrewarded for the due diligence they invested in the development of best practices for operationalizing ethical princip

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PAI Launches Interactive Project To Put Ethical AI Principles into Practice

Partnership on AI

As our community begins the complex process of translating ethical technology principles into organizational practice, PAI is working to identify the information and resources we all need. As AI technologies continue to evolve at a rapid pace, individuals, organizations, and governments around the world are recognizing the importance of thoughtful and responsible AI development and deployment.

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Explainable AI in Practice Falls Short of Transparency Goals

Partnership on AI

PAI’s research reveals a gap between how machine learning explainability techniques are being deployed and the goal of transparency for end users. Machine learning systems that enable humans to understand and evaluate their predictions or decisions are key elements of transparent, accountable and trustworthy AI. Known as Explainable AI ( XAI), these systems could have profound implications for society and the economy, potentially improving human/AI collaboration for sensitive and high impact dep

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Partnership on AI Welcomes Health Catalyst

Partnership on AI

Addition of Health Catalyst to Strengthen Partnership Expertise in Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability. In pursuit of the responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence, the Partnership on AI (PAI) is pleased today to welcome Health Catalyst as a new member of the Partnership. As PAI explores the responsible application of AI associated technologies in healthcare, the addition of Health Catalyst deepens the Partnership’s multi-stakeholder perspectives in work pertaining

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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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You will be surprised how many people work during holidays

SamePage

Are you afraid you are the only workaholic around? We have done extensive research, and to our surprise, we found out that there are a lot of people working during holidays. Language.

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Inviting teammates now easier than ever

SamePage

We are improving how you ask teammates to join your organization on Samepage. Now you can use an invitation link and share the way that fits your team the best. Language.

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Craving the bad news

SamePage

Why talking to your customers is your Founder/CEO's 4th most important job! Language.

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