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How to write a follow-up email from a discovery call
Writing a follow-up email after a discovery call is an important step in building and maintaining relationships with clients or prospects. Here are some tips for writing a successful follow-up email.
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Three Ways to Improve Your Sales Cycle
The sales cycle is a critical process for any business, as it involves building relationships with potential customers and guiding them towards making a purchase. However, it can also be a challenging and time-consuming process. Here are three ways to improve your sales cycle and close deals faster.
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How you can use AI to uplevel your recruiting efforts at your company
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the recruitment process, making it more efficient, effective, and data-driven. Here's how to use AI to uplevel your recruiting efforts, including using Otter.ai.
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Top Tools for Sales Teams in 2023
When it comes to sales, teams need tools that can help them streamline processes, improve communication, and gain valuable insights to drive success. It's important to consider factors such as ease of use, integrations with existing tools, and cost when selecting the right tools for your team.Here are some of the top tools for sales teams in 2023.
Product Update
Otter’s New OtterPilot™ is the Smart AI Meeting Assistant You’ve Been Waiting For
Otter’s new OtterPilot™ is the smart AI meeting assistant that automates meetings from start to finish.
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Improve Collaboration for your Company All-Hands Calls
All-hands calls are an essential tool for companies to keep their employees informed, engaged, and working towards common goals. However, it can be challenging to ensure that everyone is collaborating effectively during these calls. Here are some ways to improve collaboration during all-hands calls.
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How new AI meeting tools can improve collaboration and productivity across your organization
2023 has already seen a lot of new innovations when it comes to AI. It’s more clear than obvious than ever that adopting new AI meeting tools can improve collaboration and productivity across your organization. ‍Here are a couple reasons why you should consider incorporating AI at your company.
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Ways to improve your interviewing skills
Improving your interviewing skills can help you to evaluate candidates more effectively and make better hiring decisions. Here are some ways to improve your interviewing skills.
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The Most Essential Productivity and Meeting Tools for Consulting Agencies
Small consulting agencies need meeting tools that are efficient, cost-effective, and easy to use. Here are some top tools for small consulting agencies:
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8 Ways to Up-level Client Communication in 2023
Effective communication in client meetings is crucial for any agency, as you look to build trust, establish clear expectations, and ensure that projects are completed on time and to the client's satisfaction. There are several ways to improve your client communication and meetings.
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Transcription Technology that Can Make Your Work Environment More Inclusive
Transcription technology can be a valuable tool for creating more inclusive work environments, particularly for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, or who have difficulty speaking or understanding spoken language.
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How to Become a Better Interviewer
As an interviewer, it's essential to ask questions that will help you evaluate a candidate's fit for the role and assess their skills and experience. Here are some tips for becoming a better interviewer.
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The Future of Meetings
The future of meetings is likely to involve a combination of in-person and virtual interactions. With the rise of remote work, it's becoming increasingly common for people to participate in meetings remotely, using videoconferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, and Google Meet.
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4 Ways Otter Can Improve Client Meetings for Agencies in 2023
As technology continues to advance, it's important for agencies to stay current and adopt tools that can help them better serve their clients. One such tool that agencies should consider adopting for client meetings in 2023 is Otter.
Product Update
Our successful completion of SOC 2 Type II attestation — What that means for you
At Otter, we recognize your conversations may contain some of your most sensitive and confidential information. That’s why we are committed to keeping your information private and secure and, as part of our ongoing efforts, we’re excited to announce we have successfully completed our SOC 2 Type II audit and received our SOC 2 Type II report.
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Become a Consultant in 2023 with these 8 Tips
Consultants play a critical role in helping organizations solve complex problems and improve their operations. Starting as a consultant can be a challenging but rewarding career path. Here are some steps you can take to get started.
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6 Tips to Make Meetings more Accessible in 2023
Corporate meetings are an essential part of business operations, but they can often be exclusionary for employees with disabilities. By making meetings more accessible, businesses can create a more inclusive and supportive work environment for all employees. Here are some tips for making corporate meetings more accessible.
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Conducting a Successful Sales Discovery Call
A sales discovery call is a conversation between a salesperson and a potential customer to learn more about the customer's needs and determine whether the company's products or services can meet those needs. Here are some tips for conducting a successful sales discovery call.
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Transcribe Audio to Text in 2023
Transcribing audio to text can be a useful tool for a variety of purposes. It can help with creating subtitles for videos, transcribing interviews for research, or even just making it easier to read through notes from a meeting. There are several different ways to transcribe audio to text, ranging from manual transcription to using automatic transcription software.
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Choosing Transcription Software in 2023
There are several factors to consider when choosing the best automatic transcription software for your needs. Here are a few key things to keep in mind.
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10 Tips to Maximize Your Working-from-Home Productivity
While many companies have brought their employees back to the office over the past year, remote work is here to stay. In fact, Ladder projects that 25% of all professional jobs in the U.S. will be remote by the end of 2022.
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How to Write a One on One Meeting Agenda
Clear communication is the foundation of every healthy relationship, especially in the workplace. According to Gallup, employees whose managers hold regular check-ins are almost three times as likely to be engaged as employees with managers that don’t.
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5 Myths & Misconceptions About Workplace Productivity
Productivity is always a hot topic for managers and business owners. That’s understandable—the more productive your employees are, the more your organization gets done, and the more potential you have for growth and success.
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7 Best Practices for Using Online Collaboration Tools
According to a survey from Gartner, almost 80 percent of workers used online collaboration tools for work in 2021. That’s a significant increase since the start of the pandemic, and the trend looks set to continue through 2022.
Product Update
Everything to Know about Otter Plan Updates and Price Change
Over the last couple of years, we’ve experienced tremendous change - from our growing user base (that’s you!), to the issues Otter is solving in our now remote and hybrid work environments, to the product itself. 
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Free Customizable Team Meeting Agenda Template for All Industries
In past articles, we’ve offered meeting agenda templates for sales team meetings, sprint planning meetings, and more. 
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How to Choose the Best Note Taking Software in 2022
From simple web apps to advanced, AI-driven note taking software, students have never had more options when it comes to capturing information. But with these great opportunities comes the great responsibility of sorting through different solutions to find the right one for the job.
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6 Effective Meeting Tips for Hybrid Teams
Recent Gallup data confirms what many employees and employers have already begun to suspect: that the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we work, for the foreseeable future.
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6 Productivity Quotes from History's Greatest Speeches
Summer can be a tough time to get things done, as vacations, travel, and other plans naturally pull us away from productivity. But unfortunately, letting off the gas too much in these critical months can leave you falling behind on your big projects and goals (or even your day-to-day responsibilities).
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How to Write an Agenda for a Meeting
Writing an agenda for a meeting might seem straightforward: you think through the topics you want to cover, list them in an outline format, and distribute your notes to the group.
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The 22 Best Project Management Tools By Team Size
No two project management tools are created equally. From their specific features to their aesthetic appeal, project management solutions come in all shapes and sizes.
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10 Best Productivity Apps for Hybrid Teams in 2022
Hybrid work has emerged as the new go-to work arrangement for many companies as they look to balance the benefits of in-office culture and workers’ desire to stay remote. Transitioning to a hybrid arrangement from either fully remote or in-office work isn’t always easy, but the right tools can help organize and optimize blended teams.‍
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How to Choose the Right Productivity Software for Your Company
When COVID-19 hit in 2020, companies everywhere had to rush to put tools into place that would allow their businesses to stay afloat. Yet, given how quickly these changes were made, many companies are now finding that the productivity software they implemented may not be the right fit for the long-term, as work gets back to normal.
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How to Increase Buy-In for New Team Collaboration Tools
Team collaboration tools are key to maintaining productivity across work groups. But implementing new digital solutions can be difficult, especially when many teams are now toggling a remote-hybrid schedule. At the same time, many people dislike change—even if it’s for the better.
Product Update
Two-Factor Authentication for All Otter Plans
Starting today, two-factor authentication is now available for all Otter plans (Basic, Pro, Business, and Enterprise) at no additional cost.
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Best OneNote Alternative: Review of Top Note-Taking Apps
Find the best OneNote alternative apps in 2022 for students and professionals. We include the features and pricing of each app to guide your decision.
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Meet the New Otter
We’re excited to launch the new Otter — built for the half billion hybrid work professionals who are running from one meeting to the next, while juggling multiple projects with various teams. 
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A Sprint Planning Meeting Agenda Template You Can Use Right Away
In today’s world, technology changes rapidly, and users have come to expect frequent updates and consistent output from tech and software companies. Understandably, it can be hard to meet these expectations when working on complex new software and technology projects.
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How to Transcribe Zoom Meetings with Otter.ai
Transcribe your Zoom meetings in real-time using Otter.ai while collaborating with your team and reviewing meeting notes.
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Introducing Your Otter Weekly Insights
You have a lot to say, and between all of your events and meetings, whether at home, work, or school, sometimes it can be difficult to keep track of all of your activities in Otter. As Otter becomes an essential tool for your in-person or virtual meetings, classes or lectures, or day-to-day interactions with friends and families, we want to make sure these conversations are more accessible, more collaborative, more productive, and more actionable for you.
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The Best Work From Home Apps of 2022: WFH Effectively
Want to know which apps are best for working at home? Then this blog is for you! Uncover the best apps to use while working from home in 2022.
Product Update
Otter Assistant for All Users
For a limited time only, Otter Pro includes a special edition of Otter Assistant for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams!
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How to Convert MP4 to Text
MP4 files are some of the most widely-used video file formats in the world. They were first released in 2001, but 2003's release is more...
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How to Create an Effective Sales Meeting Agenda
Nowadays, there are more ways to communicate than ever. Although messaging and email dominate many of our day-to-day interactions, sometimes...
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Zoom Etiquette for Students | A Guide to Online Learning
The environments in which students learn are rapidly changing. A few years ago, online classrooms existed, but they were far from...
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Virtual Meeting Etiquette Guide for Professionals
The shift to remote workforces has put a spotlight on how people interact with one another over the Internet. While many professionals...
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How To Run A Scrum Meeting: A Step-By-Step Guide
As software development becomes a core component of every organization, its processes are also becoming a commonplace feature of all workplaces...
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How to Take Good Interview Notes
Taking notes during an interview can serve various purposes, but it’s not always easy to do. You want to show attentiveness and actively...
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Work From Home Statistics & Trends In 2022
From foraging for plants and animals for food close to the dwelling facilities to working from home to save gasoline during...
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7 Meeting Tips for a More Inclusive Work Culture
As workplaces have evolved in recent years, one of the most welcome changes is the shift towards building more inclusive cultures that ensure...
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