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How to onboard your new sales managers

March 18, 2019 by Jason Contant

Proper manager onboarding and development can have high payback for any sales force, noted the blog Why New Sales Managers Need More Training, published late last week in Harvard Business Review. Onboarding is the process of integrating a newly hired

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Boost your sales: What science is telling you about your buyers

July 24, 2018 by David Gambrill

Want to improve your sales? Stop focusing on your technique as a salesperson and start relying on scientific studies of what the buyer is thinking, Steven MacDonald advises in a blog written for SuperOffice. “Science-based selling uses scientific research to

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Digital and app users not waiting around, quick to bail on non-responsive service: Australia research

August 2, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

A huge divide exists between consumer expectations of their digital service experience and what is being delivered, with three-quarters of recently polled consumers in Australia reporting they will stop trying a digital app or service within a minute if it

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TechCanary makes available enhanced insurance platform for Canadian market

July 26, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

U.S.-based TechCanary has enhanced its insurance platform for the Canadian market to allow brokers and insurers access to additional Canada-specific capabilities around p&c lines of business meant to help them to deliver more responsive and predictive offerings to customers. TechCanary

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Half of surveyed CEOs plan to adopt cognitive computing by 2019: IBM study

July 11, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Half of surveyed chief executive officers across the globe plan to adopt cognitive computing by 2019, according to a recent study conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBM IBV). The study, titled Accelerating enterprise reinvention: how to build