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4 Innovative Sales Development Ideas to Make Your Team Shine

Hazel J. Gaston

The sales development team plays a pivotal role in lead generation. You see, they are that first contact point with potential customers. The representatives have the task of connecting with and nurturing relationships. That is why their role starts early in the sales cycle.

The sales development representatives (SDR) guide the potential buyer through the sales funnel. At this stage, they are also qualifying the leads. Only the promising or hot leads will move on to the sales team for conversion.

The benefits of using SDRs are easy to see. They offer great relief to the sales team. Do you,

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Responsible Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities

Hazel J. Gaston

No technology is perfect, and The Atlantic believes that working with skilled security researchers across the globe is crucial in identifying weaknesses in any technology. If you believe you’ve found a security issue in our product or service, we encourage you to notify us. We welcome working with you to resolve the issue promptly.

Disclosure Policy

·       Let us know as soon as possible upon discovery of a potential security issue, and we’ll make every effort to quickly resolve the issue.

·       Provide us a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before any disclosure to the public or

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Technology, health care, industrials are good long-term investing bets

Hazel J. Gaston

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The current stock market, highly volatile and trending lower this year, makes this a daunting time for individual investors seeking to identify companies with reasonable risk and good long-term growth potential.

Concerns about overall market performance — as of mid-March, the S&P 500 Index had had the fifth-worst start to a year since 1927 — means investors are acutely aware of various negative forces: the highest inflation in 40 years, an expected series of interest-rate increases that has already begun and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Thus far, these and other factors have made 2022

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How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques

Hazel J. Gaston

How they Hack Your Website

(Editor’s note: This story has been updated.)

We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine — a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight world forever beyond our ken?

Not really.

When you consider that you can go to Google right now and enter a search string which will return you thousands of usernames and passwords to websites, you realize that this dark science is really no mystery at all. You’ll

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