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How Enterprises Are Adopting Social Selling

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These days, it is no longer enough to argue that enterprise companies are too big to bother with social media. Remember this Sales 101 basic: be where your market is. Right now, they are online. The numbers are daunting. Of the 7.3 billion global population as of July 2015, more than 3 billion use the internet. Of these, more than two thirds are on social media. Facebook has more than 1.7 billion users; LinkedIn has 450 million. Plus, more than 90 percent of brands are on at least two social media platforms. It’s not just the wide use of social media that drives companies to explore social selling possibilities. According to a May 2017 Forrester Consulting survey (done for Hootsuite), there is a general discontent with how typical salespeople conduct selling. A majority of the respondents believe that salespeople come to the table with an agenda, regardless of its fit as the solution to the customer’s problems. The internet – and to a good degree, social media – empowers buye

How AI, Machine Learning and Automation will Impact Business in 2018 and Beyond

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We are living in exciting and innovative times with futuristic technology literally at our fingertips. But for the longest time, small to medium sized businesses were not serviced by the latest tech trends enterprises have been able to benefit from. That is, until now. In this article, we’ll explore these technology trends and how they will impact business in 2018 and beyond. So, what kind of things can this ‘smart’ tech do? Just 4 months ago, an AI machine managed to complete a University level math exam 12 times faster than it normally takes the average human.  How? Through the art of machine learning; where computers learn and adapt through experience without explicitly being programmed. Furthermore, Facebook made headlines earlier this year when their chatbots created their own language. Some Fake News stories say that the engineer’s pulled the plug in a panic after they were getting too smart. However, the truth is that for Facebook’s purposes the chatbots needed to stick t

Are you Ready for the Rest of 2018 Investment Year?

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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family... Kofi Annan Knowledge and action is really what differentiate you from other people. Just as food is good, energise, grow and keep the body healthy so also is knowledge for your mind. Furthermore, knowledge is what keeps our mind in good shape, it helps remove prejudice, bias and lower risk when taking decision inclusive of investment decisions which is why they always say that it is what we don't know that affects us. Similarly in stock, it is knowledge that helps you understand the current trends, models and systems that will help you get the best ROI and reduce the risk. Because things are changing fast and it is only through knowledge that you can change adapt fast. If you look indepth, some of the knowledge about the market that was valid years ago are no longer valid today which is why I get took my time to package my INVEST SUMMIT into DVD so t