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Email Automation for B2B: Nurturing Long Sales Cycles and Building Relationships

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B2B sales cycles can feel like a marathon – long, strategic, and requiring patience at every turn. Unlike quick, impulse-driven B2C transactions, B2B buyers are careful. They need time to research, weigh options, and get approvals from multiple stakeholders.

So, how do you keep your business top-of-mind throughout this lengthy process without overwhelming your prospects? Email automation is your best tool for nurturing leads over the long term.

With the right approach, automated email campaigns can help you stay relevant, build trust, and guide prospects through each stage of their buying journey. Let’s explore how you can use this tool effectively to foster relationships and nurture leads during those long B2B sales cycles. [Read more…] about Email Automation for B2B: Nurturing Long Sales Cycles and Building Relationships

Managing Family Relationships as an Expat: A Guide

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No lie, moving overseas is an exhilarating yet emotionally challenging phase of life. Every expat goes through the phase of juggling with career and financial stability even while studying. This often makes them neglect their family and friends, which might bring distance in their relationship.

Regardless of the purpose for which one moves overseas, missing family and friends is the ultimate thing. If you’re also living abroad and struggling to maintain a healthy relationship with your family, don’t worry anymore! [Read more…] about Managing Family Relationships as an Expat: A Guide

Ethics and robotics: A match made in heaven for risk management?

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By Lee Bristow, CTO of Phinity

If your business uses third parties to support core operations (and most do, from SMEs to corporates), you’ll know they need to access essential data. Without this, they can’t deliver the services you require.

Therefore, alongside this new relationship between you and your third party suppliers, comes a new responsibility for you.

You now have an ethical and legal onus to protect the customer information entrusted to you. [Read more…] about Ethics and robotics: A match made in heaven for risk management?

Social robots deserve our appreciation, bioethicist says

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If you have sex with an android doll and then knock it around the room, are you being abusive? If you’re in a foul mood and boot your robotic pet down the stairs, are you being a jerk? In either scenario, is the device’s owner culpable of bad behavior?

The questions may sound insincere, but a US bioethicist submits that they raise concerns that societies should address as humans increasingly rely on social robots for companionship and emotional support.

Nancy Jecker, a bioethicist at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, authored a newly published paper in the journal AI & Society. It asks a provocative question – “Can we wrong robots?” – and argues that the answer is “yes”. [Read more…] about Social robots deserve our appreciation, bioethicist says

Universal Robots launches ‘Service360’ customer support

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Universal Robots has launched Service360, a new support service offering which the company says “enhances performance, increases uptime and mitigates risk through seamless collaboration”.

Chris Wilson, vice president of service, Universal Robots, says: “Our customers are at the center of everything. Now, we’re empowering them to proactively monitor, optimize and safeguard cobot performance with enhanced support and preventative maintenance.

“Service360 protects production lines, maximizes uptime, reduces risk and enables success by ensuring manufactures are prepared for the unexpected.” [Read more…] about Universal Robots launches ‘Service360’ customer support