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What is a tag? Most, if not all, CRMs use tags. A quick and generic definition of a tag is “a unique identifier that can be added by a CRM user to any given contact, company, blog, or deal within a CRM.” Tags are also known by other names, such as categories, contact types, classifications,…

Blog Inside Story Tech Startup

Startups have long been a hot topic of conversation. Discussions usually waste no time zooming in on the possibility of stakeholders gaining enough equity with the new company to eventually turn it into hard cash. But while many believe that the potential of a big payday is what draws people to work for a startup,…

Blog Mistakes To Avoid Customer Service Performance

As Peter Drucker famously wrote in The Practice of Management, “what gets measured, gets managed.” Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have begun to embrace the power of measurement in everything from marketing campaigns to recruitment initiatives in recent years. Leveraging tools like Google Analytics, Facebook Ads Manager or through CRMs, CMOs, CFOs, and HR heads…

Need Data Coach

Data management can be tricky especially as data volume increases and data formats are more and more diverse. Today I’m going to tell you more about our customers’ profiles. As we illustrate their data challenges with testimonials, you may recognize yourself in one of them and have a chance to learn from their experience. In…

Microsoft Advertising Reporting Clicdata

We’re always super excited to expand our list of data sources for our users by launching new connectors on our Business Intelligence platform. In our previous platform update, we released a connector for Microsoft Advertising. Here are the simple steps to connecting data in your SEM platform to create actionable, insightful reports for your marketing…

Change Management For Everyone

As a founder and CEO of an international software company, I have often fallen into the trap of needing to tell people, “Do as I say, not do as I do.” It happens, I admit it. There have also been times where my stubbornness and “old ways” seem to have gotten in the way of…

Blog What Happened In Tech 2019

Now that 2019 is coming to a close, you can count on the inevitability of three things happening: You will tell someone that you can’t believe how fast 2019 flew by. You won’t be able to get past the homepage of your favorite news or entertainment website without seeing a “Top Something of 2019” You…

Blog Le Tableau Francais

Le Slip Français. Le Rouge Français. L’Appartement Français. Many French companies are choosing to emphasize their French origins by mention it in their brand name. Is it a good idea? Is it beneficial? Should ClicData consider doing so as well? Let’s examine the benefits of riding this fashionable wave and try to apply it to…

Blog Are You Making The Most Of Your Existing Data

Everyone is talking about Big Data today, there is a trend to move your organization to adopt to Big Data. Some others have already started thinking about Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence is another lingo that’s making rounds around executive meetings in organizations. In the fast-paced business environment, it is great that your organization is trying…

What Comes After Ai

The progress in tech’s ability to develop algorithms that can learn and adapt is staggering. Some say that due to the immense computational power available to not only programmers and data scientists, but mathematicians, biologists, and even philosophers, teachers, and non-academical people, that Machine Learning has been democratized and expanded and Artificial Intelligence has grown…

Can Marketer Get Respect In Startup Even From Tech

Having worked with tech startups as a marketer for several years now, I’ve learned a few things that I wish someone had told me when I was getting started. What Do Marketers Do Anyway? For almost every company I’ve worked for, I’ve noticed that almost everyone in the company has a different idea of what…

How Much Data Is Too Much Data For Organization

With access to unprecedented volumes of data, organizations can perform endless analyses and get innumerable insights to base decisions on. But at some point, it’s valuable to step back and consider whether having so much data is serving the needs of your organization or costing you in ways that you’re not recognizing. Here are three…

Blog Multitasking

The first use of the term “multitasking” occurred in 1965 by IBM when they described the capabilities of the IBM System/360. (While it may have also been the beginning of Skynet, I’ll save that discussion for another blog at another time.) Probably everyone you know—and many more that you don’t know—have at one time or…

Blog Clicdata Zapier Integration

Zapier is a handy application that allows you to drive your business more efficiently through automated workflows and integrations to thousands of applications. Zapier performs trigger and action tasks for a vast range of 3rd party online applications including Google Sheets, Pinterest, Shopify and or many more. You may need to build dashboards with data…

Building File Interfaces Using Ftp

The need to transfer data from one machine to another for processing has been around for a long time. Believe it or not, even before the internet was born—before API, web services, service buses, and even before FTP evolved—data transfer was being done, with the help of some fairly archaic methods. (Some are still in…