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9 Ways to Get Ideas Brewing with Instant Coffee

Planview Blog

Getting your best ideas brewing can be difficult, especially if you don’t have the right tools for the job. No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work. We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team.

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Evaluating Partner Enablement Platforms? Here’s How to Mitigate the Risk

Mindmatrix

Investing in any new technology at the enterprise level always comes with some risk. The risk component is higher when it comes to investment in partner enablement platforms because the success of your investment depends largely on partner adoption of the software/portal.

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What Growth Marketers Can Learn From Partnership Leaders

Impact

Originally published on ClickZ. C-suite titles are a mirror of our current business priorities, and when they change, it is a signal that new threats or opportunities have entered the business landscape.

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Be Clear with Your Prospective Partner on the Terms You Use

Peter Simoons

Tip 19: Be Clear with Your Prospective Partner on the Terms You Use. In the previous chapter, we have established the importance of having a clear internal definition of strategic alliances, of making sure that the people within your organization are on the same page with you as to what a strategic alliance means. In the same light, it’s also essential to be clear with your partner on what you mean with the terms you use.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Multi-Partner Plays are the Key to Enterprise Growth

PartnerTap

Multi-partner plays (co-selling with ecosystem partners) are the fastest way to grow your channel programs in 2021 and beyond. In order to meet your customers’ unique business needs, you must bring together a best-of-breed solution from multiple partners. It is your job, as a solutions provider, to rally the correct partners to provide the best solution possible.

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Top Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo Video Production Companies in 2021

Jake Jorgovan

Indiegogo - a crowdfunding platform - says, “The best way to convey your idea and message it to the crowdfunding world is through a pitch video. Film campaigns that include a video raise three times more funds than those without.” They should know. And so it’s safe to say that high-quality crowdfunding videos are the most important tool in a successful crowdfunding campaign.

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CompTIA’s Long-Term Solution for the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Channel Insider

Here’s a great example of a trade association planning for the long-term growth of its industry, namely the computer technology industry. Earlier this year, CompTIA – the Computer Technology Industry Association – launched its National Career and Technical Education (CTE) Advisory Council, featuring representatives from all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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B2B SaaS VP Sales Journey - with Brendon Cassidy, Founder & CEO CoSell

CoSell

The B2B Cloud industry is projected to grow from $350B in 2021 to $800B+ in 2025. This will mean a lot of new companies and the need for many more VP Sales to lead the revenue team.

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The World’s Most Innovative Countries, 2021

INSEAD Knowledge

Tracking innovation around the globe in the face of the Covid-19 crisis.

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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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Top 10 White Label Social Media Agencies

Jake Jorgovan

As an agency owner, you are likely always looking for ways to increase revenue and scale your business. Often, scaling means additional workload and added stress for you and your team, or a lot of effort going into finding new clients, but it doesn’t have to be. An efficient way to add recurring revenue to your business is to sell packages for social media management to your existing clients.

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Who Are the Top Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)?

Channel Insider

Managed security service providers (MSSPs) offer an efficient and cost-effective way for companies to ensure that their security and compliance needs are met. Over the past several years, the range of services offered by MSSPs has expanded as the market has become increasingly competitive. And with the recent increase in high-profile cyber attacks, more and more managed service providers (MSPs) are interested in becoming MSSPs.

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Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2021: Mary C. Gentile

Thinkers 50

Mary C. Gentile has been inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2021, in partnership with Haier. Mary C. Gentile is the creator and director of Giving Voice to Values, Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at University of Virginia Darden School of Business, Senior Advisor at the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, and a consultant on management education and leadership development.

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Is Stargazing Your Preferred Management Style?

INSEAD Knowledge

For too many leaders, astrology acts as a crutch that gives them a false sense of control in an uncertain world.

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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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BigCommerce + impact.com = the easy way to start working with affiliates and influencers

Impact

eCommerce platform BigCommerce now offers even more revenue paths to its merchants thanks to a new partnership with impact.com. Merchants on the platform can now seamlessly plug into the impact.com platform to rapidly launch and easily manage affiliate and influencer partnerships programs – no developer time required. . Sell more in more ways with BigCommerce and Impact.

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How to Choose a Great IT Managed Service Provider

Channel Insider

As organizations increasingly adopt digital systems to run their business, many decide whether to hire an in-house IT specialist or outsource. Considering the IT skills gap and the sometimes daunting cost of building out IT operations, it’s no surprise that tens of thousands of organizations elect to work with a managed service provider (MSP).

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Kyowa Hakko Acclaimed by Frost & Sullivan for its Non-GMO, Allergen-free, Immune Support Paraprobiotic Ingredient, IMMUSE™

Frost & Sullivan

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 21, 2021 — Based on its recent analysis of the North American immune health ingredient market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Kyowa Hakko USA, Inc. (Kyowa Hakko) with the 2021 North American New Product Innovation Award for its clinically backed, patented, non-GMO, allergen-free paraprobiotic, IMMUSE™, Lactococcus lactis strain plasma (LC-Plasma),).

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Announcing the Thinkers50 2021 Ideas into Practice Award Shortlist

Thinkers 50

Nominations are in for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards for 2021. We are highlighting the shortlisted nominees and their achievements. This week, we are sharing with you the 2021 shortlisted nominees for the Thinkers50 Ideas into Practice Award. 1: NK Chaudhary & Jaipur Rugs for their commitment to values-led growth. ‘I have always been an advocate of for-profit solutions to social issues.

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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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impact.com fiscal year H1 2021: $1.5B valuation, $150M in funding, BigCommerce integration, 69% customer growth

Impact

The leading partnership management platform also closed H1 with two acquisitions, expanded client portfolio with brands like Puma, Skyscanner, and Tempur Sealy, and added two new international offices . NEW YORK —September 22, 2021— impact.com , the leading global partnership management platform supporting more than one million partnerships for more than 1,800 brands, announced the close of a successful H1 in fiscal year 2022.

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Are Deskless Workers a Blind Spot In Your Remote Working Strategy?

TRG Blog

Despite being the largest group in the workforce, 2.7 billion in 2018 1 , “deskless workers” seem to be overlooked by the sweeping digital transformation at their workplaces. As we are slowly going back to work in a business-as-unusual world, this is the perfect opportunity for organisations to address this once-forgotten issue.

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New Remote Work Realities Define the Global Professional Headset Market

Frost & Sullivan

PC USB and UCC headsets will be the main contributors behind the professional headset market’s exponential growth over the forecast period, finds Frost & Sullivan. San Antonio, Texas. – Sept. 22, 2021– Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that remote working realities fueled by the pandemic have triggered unprecedented demand for professional headsets , cloud software communications, and collaboration services worldwide.

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Winter Energy Saving Tips for Businesses

CenterPoint Group

Heating a building in cold weather can quickly become expensive. Taking steps to winterize your building can help save energy (and money) during the colder months. Some winterization projects are simple and can be done quickly, without much planning ahead, while other projects involve significant renovations or capital improvements and require more planning.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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The Value of Strategic Channel Incentives: Moving Beyond a Flat SPIFF Program

ITA Group

The Value of Strategic Channel Incentives: Moving Beyond a Flat SPIFF Program. Part one of a two-article series focused on strategic channel incentives explores the benefits, including better outcomes and increased revenue, of moving beyond a flat SPIFF program. The practice of balancing profit and incentive payouts can be a tricky business, requiring regular fine tuning.

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Aftermarket Parts | Big Profits for Auto Manufacturers and Dealers

Market Source Inc

Ramping up aftermarket parts sales is a great way for automotive manufacturers and dealerships to increase revenue and profit right now, and following these expert tips can ensure long-term market growth. The post Aftermarket Parts | Big Profits for Auto Manufacturers and Dealers appeared first on MarketSource.

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XDR: A Look into the Growing Need for Deeper Detection and Response

Frost & Sullivan

In any organization, the capacity to detect and respond to threats makes or breaks its overall security posture. Threat detection and response are responsible for identifying malicious elements within the network and stamping them out. According to the Cybersecurity Framework established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), detection and response make up two of the five core functions: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.

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Webinar: Human Orchestration – The Key to Unlocking Growth in Your Mid-Market Strategy

CGS

The mid-market can be challenging to reach if you don't have the right strategy in place. Setting up, managing and monetizing multi-partner solutions can be complicated and today is achieved through custom, manual and time-intensive processes. Account-based marketing strategies are driving relationships with enterprise accounts and in recent years, small- and medium-sized businesses have seen a good amount of automation, strategy and growth from digital marketing.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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How to Improve Employee Experience With Corporate Events (& Why Now Is the Time to Do It)

ITA Group

How to Improve Employee Experience With Corporate Events (& Why Now Is the Time to Do It). The world is in a tenuous state. Yet, despite continued uncertainty, I can’t help feeling like a gleeful child the night before their birthday as I optimistically look to our eventual return to “normal.” And there are few things I’m more excited about than a return to event experiences and ITA Group traditions, including our holiday celebrations, impromptu happy hours and, of course, our annual Sales Kicko

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Virtual Auto Dealer Maintenance Plan Training During COVID-19 | MarketSource Heroes

Market Source Inc

The MarketSource team made vast improvements to an auto manufacturer’s virtual training academy and despite the COVID-19 shutdown the client saw measurable increases in maintenance contract sales. The post Virtual Auto Dealer Maintenance Plan Training During COVID-19 | MarketSource Heroes appeared first on MarketSource.

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How To Run A Call Center – 5 Steps

COO Alliance

Running a call center can seem quite difficult at first, but it’s not! We just overcomplicated it. Running a call center is actually pretty simple if you know how to do it right. If you run your own call center or take calls from clients, these five steps are all you need to know. Answer the Phone Fast. When running a call center, it’s vital that your team answers the phone fast.