It may not mark an ideal moment in the Canadian economy, but periods of high inflation can serve as a valuable catalyst for digital transformation.
Smart companies know that rising prices signal potential dips in customer demand, as well as increased costs for raw materials and the everyday...
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Account-based marketing has become a popular strategy within many companies because it’s a highly effective way of prioritizing your most important customers and deepening your relationship with them. Before that happens, though, there’s another relationship that needs to be addressed first.
Sales...
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The third-party data your customers give you is a gift to your business that will keep on giving – you just need to know how to ask for it.
Unlike second-party data that you purchase through a marketplace, or third-party data that is collected and aggregated via web site cookies, zero-party data...
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The first iteration of the Web transformed business as we know it offering companies of every size a way to promote themselves to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Next came Web 2.0, where technology advanced to support more user-generated content and interactive features.
Web 3.0 opens up a new wave...
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Every time a marketer presses “send” on an email campaign, they’re making a set of promises to their database of recipients:
The message landing in their inbox is important, based on what the brand knows about your interests, needs and aspirations.
The message will provide value – not just...
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It’s not a tech-specific acronym like a CRM, AI, or the IoT, but it’s the one small and medium-sized businesses care about most when they’re choosing digital tools: ROI.
Even when the economy is at its strongest, companies need to justify ROI – otherwise known as return on investment – for every...
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There were times when closing a deal would earn sales reps a high five from nearby coworkers or their manager. In some cases companies would have a bell in the office that would ring out in victory. Today, the celebratory activity is magnified among sales teams that use Slack – as is all the...
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Less than a year ago, it’s probably safe to say that the majority of Canada’s small and medium-sized businesses had never heard of generative AI. Fast forward one year, however, and its role in delivering an outstanding customer experience could make it as commonplace as smartphones and office...
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The advancements in artificial intelligence have been coming so fast and furious over the last two years that it’s tempting to think AI could also stand for “all-in.”
When a company goes all-in with AI, for example, that means it is leveraging technologies such as natural language processing and...
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