All posts by Vinay Patankar

40% of Employees Won’t Ask for a Raise or Promotion

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While many employees want to discuss their career prospects with their managers at least one to four times per year, a shocking 40% never do. In other words, employees won’t ask even when the conversation could help them understand their future.

A Robert Half study revealed a disconnect between managers and their employees on one of the most wanted aspects of any job. Gallup has also found that advancement opportunities remain uneven, and one in four employees lack clear opportunities to move ahead.

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20 Useful Applications of AI & Machine Learning in Your Business Processes

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Useful applications of AI and machine learning are no longer limited to research labs, ad platforms, or giant enterprise teams. AI now shows up inside everyday business processes: reviewing documents, routing work, predicting risk, drafting responses, inspecting quality, and helping teams decide what should happen next.

The practical question is not whether AI can do impressive things. It is where AI can remove repetitive work, improve decisions, and still leave the right human approval gates in place. This guide walks through 20 applications of AI across business functions and industries, with a focus on where the technology changes how work gets done.

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32 Google Drive Tips and Tricks

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I made the switch from Dropbox to Google Drive and never looked back. Once you live in Drive every day, you start finding features most people never touch, and a few of them quietly change how you work.

Below is the running list of Google Drive tips and tricks I actually use, including the AI features Google has folded in that most users have not caught up to yet.

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21 Best Business Podcasts: Process Street Team Picks

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Podcasts are like hacks for your everyday life. They allow you to passively improve your knowledge and gain valuable insight into almost any topic you could imagine, whilst doing pretty much anything.

All of that time spent walking to the store, commuting to work, preparing a meal, working out; it’s all time you could be utilizing to improve yourself and your business.

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17 Stellar Ideas to Perfect Your Business Newsletter and 30 Free Templates

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This is a guest post by Hannah Butler, a web developer, designer, and writer.

A strong business newsletter gives readers a reason to keep opening your emails. It can share useful ideas, explain your work, highlight customer stories, and point people toward the next best action without turning every send into a hard sell.

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4 Virtual Conference Process Templates to Cut Costs & Increase Sales

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I should be sitting in a field, sipping a lukewarm cider, waiting for Aerosmith to come on stage and blow me away. Instead, the event moved online, and the same question still hits every organizer: how do you turn a live conference into a virtual conference without losing the structure that makes the event work?

Virtual conferences are no longer a stop-gap. They are part of how teams host launches, customer events, webinars, training sessions, partner summits, and hybrid programs. This guide puts four Process Street process templates at the center and shows how to plan, host, run, and troubleshoot a virtual conference with repeatable workflows that cut costs and increase sales. When costs increase, sales targets get harder to hit, so the process behind the event matters as much as the platform.

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5 B2B Marketing Trends You Need to Be Following

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B2B marketing trends change fast, but the durable lesson is simple: buyers remember brands that make complex work easy to understand. The best B2B campaigns do not pretend an industrial product, CRM, or social platform is consumer entertainment. They turn useful proof, customer stories, and product context into content people can actually share.

These five examples show how B2B brands can build attention without flattening their expertise. MailChimp, Volvo, General Electric, Salesforce, and HootSuite all prove a different point about brand storytelling, visual content, events, social proof, and repeatable marketing execution.

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5 Essential Lessons I Learned From GitLab’s Marketing Playbook

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Writers are inherently nosy curious. Here at Process Street, we are no different. So when I was given the opportunity to check out GitLab’s marketing playbook, I jumped at it.

GitLab itself is an interesting company. Remote-first and open source, GitLab’s evolution comes not only from its own development teams, but also contributions from a large community of contributors and users. Plus it promotes total transparency; all of GitLab’s documentation is freely accessible on its website. Like I said, interesting place.

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3 Fatal Onboarding Mistakes That Make Your Best Employees Quit

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Employee onboarding mistakes are expensive because new hires make stay-or-go judgments fast. Gallup reports that only 12% of employees strongly agree their organization does a great job onboarding, and BambooHR found that many new hires decide whether a job is the right fit within the first month.

The good news is that the most fatal onboarding mistakes are operational, not mysterious. If your process gives people time to learn, keeps work out of static paper systems, and makes expectations explicit, your best employees get a clearer path to contribute.

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3 Proven Decision Support Systems for Business Operations Managers

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We make hundreds of food-related decisions a day, and most of them happen with less awareness than we think.

Microsoft once claimed in an ad for its To-Do app that people make 35,000 decisions a day. The exact number is hard to verify, but the larger point holds: your brain filters more information than you can consciously process.

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