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“AI Agents for Small Business: The Ultimate Guide to Automation and Growth”

American Entrepreneurship

AI agents are software programs designed to automate tasks, analyze data, and make intelligent decisions based on user input and pre-set parameters. These agents can work independently or collaboratively with human users, performing customer service, marketing, finance, and operations management functions.

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CRM automation guide

The Zapier Blog

You can automatically enrich records, eliminate duplicates, and flag missing fields so your data stays trustworthy (and useful) as your pipeline grows. Smoother team collaboration Sales, marketing, and support all rely on CRM data—but handoffs between teams can get messy.

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What is a CRM? The beginner's guide to customer relationship management

The Zapier Blog

It keeps you from dropping the ball (pun extremely intended) and lets you focus on closing deals instead of fumbling missed follow-ups and lost opportunities. Sales forecasting becomes much more accurate when based on real pipeline data, and marketing analytics help you understand which campaigns generate the best return on investment.

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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

Our banks can attest to the transformation opportunities and business growth we’ve all seen by hand-selecting some of the most impactful companies to work with community banks.” It touts that over 1,000 companies are in its pipeline, accelerating the growth of the 17 funded fintech portfolio companies.

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NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen tackles cosmic questions at TC Sessions: Space

TechCrunch

As a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor — where he taught classes in space science, aerospace engineering and innovation — he focused on solar, heliospheric and planetary instrumentation and data analysis. Are we alone? How does the universe work? TC Sessions: Space takes place on December 6 in Los Angeles.

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Small Business Marketing Research Tools

American Entrepreneurship

Identifying Market Trends and Opportunities Tools like Th ink With Google and Google Trends provide real-time insight into current market dynamics, revealing search behavior and topic popularity. Location filters allow for regional analysis helping with geographically targeted strategies.

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TrustLayer raises $6M seed to become the ‘Carta for insurance’

TechCrunch

The most interesting opportunities we see are around modernizing legacy infrastructure, reducing friction, and improving the customer experience,” he told TechCrunch. It also plans to team up with The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative (considered to be one of the largest blockchain insurance consortiums in the U.S.)