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In the past year, we have seen many SEO tools with built-in machine learning capabilities start to emerge.

These tools allow us to spend more time executing and less time researching, acquiring data and reporting.
Duran Inci,Optimum7
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Digital assistants
As digital assistants (Alexa, Assistant, Cortana, Watson, etc.)

For routine and repeat purchases, our digital assistant may completely replace the brand-to-consumer relationship.
For more complex one-time purchases, we will rely on our digital assistants to help make a decision.
Andrew Howlett,Rain
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Text messaging to increase conversions
Everyone sees Intercom and other messaging applications on sites.
One of the most interesting tools Ive seen is calledSaveMySales.
This turns the purchase flow into a conversation to help educate prospects on your customer.

Aaron Schwartz,Passport
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Mechanical and digital automation
I love the potential of automation.
Im talking about both mechanical and digital options.

I see so much potential in this space.
Basically, I tell mytechpeople to get rid of busy work.
Get it to the point where we are just doing verification, quality assurance and clarification.

Derek Broman,Discount Enterprises LLC deguns.net
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Augmented reality
Its one thing to see a product but its another to see it in your home beforeyoubuy.
By creating an experience-focused product design with augmented reality within my home is to do something truly innovative.

Nicole Munoz,Nicole Munoz Consulting, Inc.
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This would allow better visualization of the final product.
Julian Montoya,JM11 Investments
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For developers and designers up for a challenge, theres a lot of work to be done.
Tony Scherba,Yeti
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Dan Golden,BFO (Be Found Online)
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IoT is the latesttechtrend which is going to change all industries, especially transportation.
Piyush Jain,SIMpalm
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Agile methodology for nondevelopment
Everyone is talking about agile development.

But what about agile everything else?
Every department at our company runs on sprints: our marketing team, design team, operations, etc.
The departments run two-week-long sprints with pointed stories and manage their work through tickets on Jira or Trello.

This has been truly revolutionary for productivity, collaboration and time management.
Ryan D Matzner,Fueled
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Edge computing
We are researching this next evolution of cloud computing and determining how it will impact our organization.

Its not about if it will impact anymore.
Cloud computing was the last phase of this that had huge implications.
Baruch Labunski,Rank Secure
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Connected vehicles
We believe the connected vehicle space is just taking off.
Andy Karuza,FenSens
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Creating content around thetrends
We have GoogleTrendsalerts set so every week we research the currenttrendsin Googles search engine.

This gives us a lot of great ideas for blog posts and content to create.
We relate to how thesetrendswill change our product orindustrys future.
Our clients think of us as acuttingedgethought leader due to this simple process.

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