sca

Claire Williams Scared of Formula One Team Shutting Down Due to Covid-19 But Won't Risk Staff's Health

Claire Williams said that it was scary that if racing doesn't restart soon due to coronavirus, Formula One could lose an 'awful lot of teams'.




sca

Covid-19: 22 Migrants Escape from Quarantine Centre in Chhattisgarh

At least 22 migrant labourers, who had returned from Andhra Pradesh, escaped from a COVID-19 quarantine centre in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said on Friday.




sca

Bombay HC Rejects Bail of PNB Scam Accused Who Tested Positive for Covid-19

Justice Bharati Dangre rejected Bhatt's plea after the prosecution told the court that a COVID-19 patient cannot be allowed to be freed on temporary bail.




sca

'Scared About Future': Amid Delayed & Postponed CBSE Board Exams, Students Grapple With Anxiety

Similarly, for the students in northeast Delhi, the wait for the exams has become a "test of patience" as they were postponed first in the area due to law and order situation, and later due to the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in a four-month-long wait for the exams.




sca

Testing Capacity for Covid-19 Scaled up to 95,000 Per Day, Says Union Minister Harsh Vardhan

Tripura has reported 118 cases, Assam 59, Meghalaya 12 cases, Manipur two while Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have reported a case each till Saturday morning 8 AM.




sca

BSP Chief Mayawati Rakes up CWG Scam, Asks Centre to Take Utmost Care While Importing Covid-19 Equipment

The former chief minister of the state asked the central government to exercise caution while importing testing kits from foreign countries.




sca

Telugu Actor Rajasekhar Escapes with Minor Injuries in a Road Accident

The actor's car overturned when he was driving home in the early hours. Thanks to the safety features of the car, Rajasekhar was unhurt.




sca

Turkey Charges Seven People Over Former Nissan Boss Carlos Ghosn's Escape: Lawyer

Turkey formally charged Turkish private jet operator MNG Jet's four pilots and a executive with 'migrant smuggling', a crime carrying a maximum sentence of eight years in jail.




sca

China Continues to Hide and Obfuscate Covid-19 Data from World, Says Mike Pompeo in Fresh Attack

Mike Pompeo said he has seen a significant amount of evidence that suggests that the lab was underperforming, that there were security risks at the lab and that the virus could well have emanated from there.




sca

Adani Ports Reported Fiscal 2018 Results In Line With Expectations Says Moody’s

Moody's Investors Service, a global rating agency, said that Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited's (APSEZ) (Baa3 stable) results for fiscal 2018 are within Moody's expectations. In fiscal 2018, APSEZ's reported revenue of Rs 113 billion, up by 34




sca

Shah Rukh Khan Asks Fans To Make And Send Scary Films; ‘Ghosts Are Welcome To Submit’

Shah Rukh Khan has decided to promote his upcoming production, Betaal, in a fun way. The Badshah of Bollywood is asking fans to channel their inner filmmakers during the lockdown and shoot scary films at home. He announced that winners of




sca

The Academy Changes Oscars Eligibility Criteria For COVID-19 Year, Will Consider Digital Releases

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) that hosts the annual Academy Awards aka Oscar Awards will now consider films that get digital releases too for the awards, as opposed to the previous rule, according to which only films




sca

Shah Rukh Khan Asks Fans To Make And Send Scary Films; ‘Ghosts Are Welcome To Submit’

Shah Rukh Khan has decided to promote his upcoming production, Betaal, in a fun way. The Badshah of Bollywood is asking fans to channel their inner filmmakers during the lockdown and shoot scary films at home. He announced that winners of




sca

Technical View: Nifty forms strong bullish candle on weekly monthly scales, 10,000 crucial

Traders should use the dip, if any, between 9,750–9,700 to create fresh longs with a stop below 9,600 on a closing basis, Mazhar Mohammad says.




sca

#39;Govt could roll out fiscal stimulus of Rs 6-8 lakh crore, but unlikely in one stretch#39;

Markets would take back the drive if government does not live-up to the build-up expectations. This uptrend seems to be a short lived and may not be sustainable in coming days.




sca

Coronavirus pandemic | China continues to hide and obfuscate COVID 19 data from world: Pompeo

"I have seen a significant amount of evidence that suggests that the lab was underperforming, that there were security risks at the lab and that the virus could well have emanated from there," Pompeo told Ben Shapiro in an interview.




sca

BMW launches 2020 M8 sportscar in India at Rs 2.15 crore

The M8 is now BMW’s flagship sportscar and gets two doors in addition to all the luxury that BMW offers inside two doors.




sca

Exclusive: Pakistan's fiscal deficit to surge, tax revenue to miss target this year - finance chief

Pakistan's fiscal deficit will surge to 9% in the ongoing fiscal year, the country's de facto finance minister said on Friday, as its economy reels from the fallout of the coronavirus crisis.




sca

Break Free B2B Marketing: Gary Gerber on Scaling ABM without Losing Focus

When people think of account-based marketing (ABM), they tend to think of it as a smaller-scale practice. Since ABM is fundamentally built around focus in the aligned pursuit of high-value accounts, it’s often associated with a significant reduction in target market scope (i.e., “Let’s narrow down to our 20-30 most promising accounts).

This itself is a constraint from which B2B marketers need to break free, which is why Gary Gerber stood out as a fitting guest for the first interview in our second season of Break Free B2B. At B2B Marketing Exchange in February, he sat with TopRank Marketing President Susan Misukanis to unpack what’s needed to bring ABM to the next level.

Gary and his team at Folloze helped Cisco develop a sophisticated and highly effective ABM program that targeted 20,000 customers through one-on-one, personalized content and messaging.

How can other B2B marketers achieve this level of scalability in their ABM efforts, overcoming one of the biggest remaining hurdles holding back this fast-growing approach? In large part it’s about rethinking our tools, Gary suggests, while leaning on a rather literal metaphor.

“You have to focus away from blunt instrument tools,” he says. “I’m not bashing blunt instruments, by the way, because a hammer is one of the most useful tools in your toolkit, but you wouldn’t use it to repair a watch. So you need to migrate to tools that let you [achieve] that kind of precision, because that’s the only way you’re going to build trust with your customers.”

[bctt tweet="“A hammer is one of the most useful tools in your toolkit, but you wouldn’t use it to repair a watch.” @Gary_Gerber of @Folloze on the need for more precision in #ABM. #BreakFreeB2B" username="toprank"]

Solutions like Folloze’s platform, which enables the delivery of personalized experiences at scale, are helping pave the way. But it’s not just about technology. Reaching a state of advanced ABM also requires shifts in organizational mindset, philosophy, and operation.

Gary and Susan cover the gamut in their 18-minute conversation. You can watch, listen, or find key excerpts and takeaways below.

Break Free B2B Interview with Gary Gerber

If you’re interested in checking out a particular portion of the discussion, you can find a quick general outline below, as well as a few excerpts that stood out to us.

  • 1:30 - Recognizing that change is inevitable
  • 2:30 - Where is ABM in terms of market maturity?
  • 4:45 - Helping clients recognize shortcomings and make incremental progress
  • 6:30 - Approaching the marketing funnel from an ABM standpoint
  • 9:30 - Re-centering on the fundamentals of ABM targeting
  • 11:15 - Where are you seeing successes in ABM?
  • 13:15 - Optimizing for the future by taking the right steps right now
  • 16:00 - Gary's personal hobbies and philosophies
  • 17:15 - How can modern digital marketers break free?

Susan: What's your consulting approach? As marketers, we can't just tell our clients, "You're wrong, do it my way." How do you inch them toward making incremental progress?

Gary: It's an interesting question because when we talk to people, the tools that people are using are the same ones that worked well 10 or 15 years ago. People built their careers on tools like marketing automation and things like that. So it is challenging to tell them, "Those tools are blunt instruments by today's standards."

You have to focus the other way, on what's not working, on the pain. Because there is pain there, especially if they're under the gun for an account-based program, and for pushing things through the funnel, right? We like to talk about the three symptoms that marketers today are subject to: funnel starvation, pipeline constipation, and sales frustration. They can't get stuff into the top of the funnel anymore, whatever they get in the funnel doesn't come out, and they're under the gun there because sales and the entire organization is looking to them to move opportunities and it's not happening. So if you can put it in terms along those lines most marketers will eventually have to concede. 'Cause everyone's feeling that pain in B2B.

[bctt tweet="“We like to talk about the three symptoms that marketers today are subject to: funnel starvation, pipeline constipation, and sales frustration.” @Gary_Gerber @Folloze #BreakFreeB2B #ABM" username="toprank"]

Susan: Do you counsel equal focus on the top, middle, and bottom of the funnel to try to get things moving? Or is the first thing, you gotta fix the top of the funnel? What's your methodology?

Gary: Well, if you think about what ABM is, especially if you're doing it right, it's almost not a funnel mentality at all anymore, right? We refer to it as full cycle personalization, or some people are saying bow tie. If you're approaching it with that funnel mentality, you've almost doomed yourself to failure right from the start in 2020.

[bctt tweet="“If you're approaching #ABM with that funnel mentality, you've almost doomed yourself to failure right from the start in 2020.” @Gary_Gerber @Folloze #BreakFreeB2B" username="toprank"]

There’s an analogy others are using and I agree with it: it’s like a football team or a soccer team running down the field together. So the focus isn't on top of funnel or middle of funnel, it's on -- by definition -- the accounts themselves. And as sales and marketing are running down the field, they're bringing the account and the individuals together along with them. It's a journey.

And so how do you do that? You can't do that by sending them mass emails because everybody's getting that. Ultimately what it's about, and I've said this to other people, it's about building that relationship with them. More importantly, it's about building a relationship that's built on trust, not on hype. Because if you've built that trust and you're adding that value to them that they trust you're interested in their success, and you're providing information and content and messaging and whatever it is, that will help them be successful. They'll happily march down the field with you because you're adding to their success.

Susan: So let's talk about what's working in ABM these days. Where are smart modern marketers really experiencing some great progress from your perspective?

Gary: Most people think of ABM, as you mentioned before, as, "Well, I'm going to pick my top 20 accounts and I'm going to focus everything I got on them, and the rest of the 88,000 or whatever, oh well too bad, them we'll just spray and pray with a nurture campaign or something like that." And it's interesting because when you stop and think about it logically, limiting it to your 20 or 25 or whatever, that's a technical limitation, right? It's because I can't do what I want to do -- create a deeply personalized, individualized, valuable, trust building experience -- with more than those 20 people because there's me and this person, that's all that we can do.

But there is no procedural reason for that. If you could do [personalization] for everybody, then you would, but you can't. And so, Cisco is a really awesome example. What they've been able to do is actually automate a lot of what's manual to create these very individualized experiences where they’re getting content, and imagery, and messaging, and information, and everything that is very salient to them, that they used to have to build by hand, so it took hours for each … it’s automated, so they kind of wind it up once and this goes out. So Cisco is actually doing one of the largest ABM programs in the country.

Stay tuned to the TopRank Marketing Blog and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Break Free B2B interviews. Here are a few interviews to whet your appetite:

The post Break Free B2B Marketing: Gary Gerber on Scaling ABM without Losing Focus appeared first on Online Marketing Blog - TopRank®.




sca

Africans scale back funerals to curb COVID-19

Across Africa, centuries-old cultural traditions are being foregone in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen governments impose restrictions on gatherings and other practices around death and burial. Francesca Lynagh reports.




sca

Social media's newest stars: Dr. Birx's scarves

U.S. coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx is best-known for her calm, authoritative briefings at the daily White House press conferences. But she has also become a pop culture phenomenon for her scarves.




sca

Africans scale back funerals to curb COVID-19

Across Africa, centuries-old cultural traditions are being foregone in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen governments impose restrictions on gatherings and other practices around death and burial. Francesca Lynagh reports.




sca

No warning, no escape as deadly gas swept through Andhra Pradesh village

When gas began leaking from a nearby chemical factory and drifting towards his house in southern India, there were no warnings and no alarms, welder Elamanchili Venkatesh said.




sca

No warning, no escape as deadly gas swept through Andhra Pradesh village

When gas began leaking from a nearby chemical factory and drifting towards his house in southern India, there were no warnings and no alarms, welder Elamanchili Venkatesh said.




sca

Madagascar coronavirus herbal mix draws demand from across Africa despite WHO misgivings

Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based "cure" for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, despite warnings from the World Health Organisation that its efficacy is unproven.




sca

Lori Loughlin, other parents lose bid to dismiss U.S. college scam charges

A federal judge on Friday declined to dismiss the charges against "Full House" actress Lori Loughlin and other wealthy parents awaiting trial in the U.S. college admissions scandal after they accused investigators of fabricating evidence.




sca

Yes Bank Scam: CBI custody of Wadhawan brothers extended till May 1

They were arrested on Sunday from a quarantine facility in Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra's Satara district.




sca

Yes Bank Scam: CBI custody of Wadhawan brothers extended till May 10

The central probe agency had said it needs to interrogate the brothers further in connection with the Yes Bank scam also involving its founder Rana Kapoor.




sca

COVID-19 pandemic: Madagascar President introduces 'herbal cure' for coronavirus

The herbal remedy is derived from artemisia -- a plant with proven success in treating malaria -- and other indigenous herbs.




sca

[ASAP] Unveiling Nanoscale Compositional and Structural Heterogeneities of Highly Textured Mg<sub>0.7</sub>Ti<sub>0.3</sub>H<sub><italic toggle="yes">y</italic></sub> Thin Films

Inorganic Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00059




sca

[ASAP] Transfer of Direct to Indirect Bound Excitons by Electron Intervalley Scattering in Cs<sub>2</sub>AgBiBr<sub>6</sub> Double Perovskite Nanocrystals

ACS Nano
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c00997




sca

Web Information Systems and Technologies [Electronic book] : 14th International Conference, WEBIST 2018, Seville, Spain, September 18-20, 2018, Revised Selected Papers / edited by María José Escalona, Francisco Domínguez Mayo, Tim A. Majchr

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.




sca

Virtual sites as learning spaces : critical issues on languaging research in changing eduscapes [Electronic book] / Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Ylva Lindberg, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]




sca

Videogame sciences and arts [Electronic book] : 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27-29, 2019, Proceedings / Nelson Zagalo, Ana Isabel Veloso, Liliana Costa, Óscar Mealha (eds.).

Cham : Springer, c2019.




sca

Sociocultural Psychology on the Regional Scale [Electronic book] : A Case Study of a Hill / Tania Zittoun.

Cham : Springer, c2019.




sca

Screening Scarlett Johansson [Electronic book] : Gender, Genre, Stardom / Janice Loreck, Whitney Monaghanm Kirsten Stevens, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2020.




sca

Scalable uncertainty management [Electronic book] : 13th International Conference, SUM 2019, Compiègne, France, December 16-18, 2019, Proceedings / Nahla Ben Amor, Benjamin Quost, Martin Theobald (eds.)

Cham : Springer, 2019.




sca

Scala programming for big data analytics : get started with big data analytics using Apache Spark [Electronic book] / Irfan Elahi.

[New York] : Apress, [2019]




sca

The object of comedy [Electronic book] : philosophies and performances / Jamila M.H. Mascat, Gregor Moder, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.




sca

Multiple-scale analysis of boundary-value problems in thick multi-level junctions of Type 3:2:2 [Electronic book] / Taras Mel'nyk, Dmytro Sadivyi.

Cham : Springer, 2020.




sca

The metaphysics of the material world : Suárez, Descartes, Spinoza [Electronic book] / Tad M. Schmaltz.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.




sca

Metadata and semantic research [Electronic book] : 13th International Conference, MTSR 2019, Rome, Italy, October 28-31, 2019, Revised selected papers / Emmanouel Garoufallou, Francesca Fallucchi, Ernesto William De Luca (eds.).

Cham : Springer, 2019.




sca

Irony and outrage : the polarized landscape of rage, fear, and laughter in the United States [Electronic book] / Dannagal Goldthwaite Young.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.




sca

The Holocene and Anthropocene environmental history of Mexico : a paleoecological approach on Mesoamerica [Electronic book] / edited by Nuria Torrescano- Valle, Gerald A. Islebe, Priyadarsi D. Roy.

Cham : Springer, [2019]




sca

Group Chase and Escape [Electronic book] : Fusion of Pursuits-Escapes and Collective Motions / Atsushi Kamimura, Toru Ohira.

Singapore : Springer, 2020.




sca

Descartes and the ontology of everyday life [Electronic book] / Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.




sca

Building Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloud : A Simple Guide to Programming and Administering Cloud-Based Applications [Electronic book] / Jonathan Bartlett.

[Berkeley, CA] : Apress L. P., [2019]




sca

Beginning Kubernetes on the Google Cloud Platform : A Guide to Automating Application Deployment, Scaling, and Management [Electronic book] / Ernesto Garbarino.

[Berkeley, CA] : Apress, [2019]




sca

Scanning Bomblets: NYPD Bomb Squad Visits the Museum

It’s not every day you welcome the NYPD Bomb Squad into your museum…but that’s what happened recently at the New-York Historical Society! This week, we’re opening our groundbreaking new exhibition, The Vietnam War: 1945-1975, exploring the causes and consequences of one of the most divisive and controversial events in American history. The expansive exhibition features...

The post Scanning Bomblets: NYPD Bomb Squad Visits the Museum appeared first on Behind The Scenes.




sca

Frame by frame / a film by Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli ; a Red Reel & Rake Films production ; in association with CoPilot Pictures, Exposure Labs & Rampante ; a Time Inc. presentation ; directed by Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli ; producer

Rotch Library - TR113.A3 F733 2015