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Six Ways to Connect with Hard-to-Reach Business Buyers

Webbiquity

And even with those filters in place, inboxes are often overflowing, leaving buyers with little time or bandwidth to deal with any but the most urgent messages. When calling a typical company today, phone trees make it nearly impossible to reach any actual human, much less the one you hope to speak to.

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What marketers need to know about managing social media through an economic downturn

Sprout Social

The ability to activate on social is a critical muscle that companies need to exercise, even in times of economic pressure,” says Dietrich. She clearly remembers feeling frustrated in the face of budget cuts during the 2008 recession. Host candid conversations with your team about their bandwidth, routines and working styles.

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What Will Your Personal AI Look Like?

Biznology

By 2007, social media had started gaining widespread uptake, and by 2008, you’d hear occasional references to the phrase on television newscasts and in prime time. All three companies have strict policies in place to prevent these devices from recording ambient conversations. Almost nobody had heard of the term back then. Kaden nodded.

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More Evidence That Waiting Even 5 Seconds to Contact a New Sales Lead Can Be Disastrous

The Point

Software Advice analyzed more than 6 million unique visitors to their own Website between 2008 and 2013, and the impact that various factors (speed of response, time of day, day of week, month of year) had on the rate at which those leads were qualified based on a telephone needs analysis and BANT qualification. Probably not.

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Creating Stories that Stick: Building Content that Drives Decisions | AdWeek Elevate Recap

Parse.ly

How can smaller organizations with limited bandwidth get started telling their story? This ranges from influencing the most recent financial crisis, into the 2008 recession, all the way back to the Great Depression. How can smaller organizations with limited bandwidth get started telling their story? and WordPress VIP.

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Digital Asset Management: What It Is and Why You Need It

Content Marketing Institute

Metadata is essential to managing these assets, providing useful information about the content, such as: “Older woman holding a baby, photo, taken by Phil Smith, January 5, 2008.” And companies that sell tangible products are increasingly and effectively tying together in-store and digital shopping experiences (omnichannel marketing).

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The Bamboo Project Blog: 21st Century Workplace Literacy: What Does that Mean and How Do We Engage More People in the Discussion?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

April 21, 2008 in knowledge sharing , learning , Lifelong Learning , Skills and Knowledge , Strategic THinking | Permalink. Disconnected groups are always a problem, but the problem gets more obvious when change is happening fast (as is with technology) so that the few shared communication channels have far too low bandwidth.

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