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Louis Moran May 18, 2023 Your leads are an incredibly important part of your business. While they aren't yet fully-fledged customers, they represent the future of your customer base. What you do with your leads today will have a direct impact on the success of your business tomorrow.
Right now, the world is dealing with a serious energy crisis that has led to skyrocketing utility bills and economic uncertainty. Tools like Arduino and the Arduino Cloud can help you build automated devices to better manage your energy usage and save money in times of crisis.
More and more people are making the leap from the world of traditional employment to the life of a freelancer. It's a fast-growing space, with 56.7 million Americans now doing some form of freelance work. However, working as a freelancer comes with a unique set of challenges.
In the past, internal KPIs were the ultimate goal to reach, with metrics such as average call length and abandon rate being used to assess performance. Recently, however, there has been a shift to external factors such as quality scores and customer retention rates.
Having a slow phone can be unbelievably frustrating. When we've become accustomed to lightning quick devices that sit in our pockets ready to perform tasks at the swipe of a finger, it can feel like losing a limb when they start to slow down.
Smartphones are becoming an increasingly necessary part of life in the modern world, and not having one, even for just a few hours, can be a huge handicap.
Chatbots are rapidly growing in popularity. Opus Research predicts that by 2021, 4.5 billion dollars will have been invested in chatbots. Businesses from all industries are turning to this technology to provide better service, optimize their sales processes, and adopt a more conversational approach to marketing.
We've all been there. Anyone who works under the wonderful umbrella we call 'freelancers', anyway. You get approached out of the blue by some seemingly nice people offering you some work. Great! That's always welcome. Maybe you'll be able to buy that new laptop you've been eyeing up.
It's not exactly a big secret that the cryptocurrency and blockchain space is going through a bit of a bear market. Bitcoin's price recently hit its lowest point in over a year, and unsurprisingly it dragged the entire market down with it. For those involved in the space, this can feel a bit scary and disheartening.