This document provides insights into effective customer nurturing strategies beyond email. It notes that prospects typically require an average of 10 touches before becoming customers. A successful approach uses omnichannel communication across multiple digital and in-person channels over time, such as social media, retargeting, direct mail, and events. This establishes an ongoing emotional connection through storytelling and creates multiple opportunities for prospects to engage with a company's message and champions.
A successful sales team might have a strong bond, achieve the required business and smash their KPI targets, month in, month out. They are confident in what they do, where to go and who to speak with to ensure that they achieve sales.
Is this a finely tuned team that do 'enough' so that everyone's happy, or is this a team that is held back on becoming truly great?
The Ultimate Indestructible Blueprint for Maximizing Sales in 2017Meredith Oliver
Presented at the 2017 International Builders Show by Meredith Oliver, Evan Carroll, and Stan Phelps.
An indestructible sales and marketing strategy in 2017 recognizes one vital element: customer experience is the new marketing. In fact, new Gartner research indicates that nearly 90% of companies will compete based mainly on the experience they create for buyers. SPOILER ALERT: The sales strategies that brought you success in the past will be far less effective going forward. This Master Session examined each stage of the buying-journey and recommends opportunities to add value and exceed customer expectations throughout. Attendees discovered how to create a complete sales and marketing blueprint that marries digital marketing, social media, selling skills, and customer experience into one unstoppable process resulting in more leads, traffic and sales.
Why We Automate: Observations from billions of customer interactionsMediaPost
From machine learning to natural language processing to artificial intelligence, brands can invest in an open space of technologies and scale marketing efforts like never before. Yet while automation enables marketers to move faster, think bigger, and dive deeper, we should take a moment to remember the why and the who. Vicky Ge shares her observations on innovations in automation, marketing at scale, and the human on the other side of the inbox.
Provocative ideas to shape your digital strategyDavid Jarvis
Summary of a short talk I gave at Customer Experience Explored event in London on 15 March 2017, hosted by Biglight
http://biglight.co.uk/news/585/biglight-hosts-custom…
You can hear my dulcet tones for the last 5 mins of the talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBk0Y1uNXlA
How to Email CXOs: Tips from real cold emailsDatanyze
In this month's webinar, we've teamed up with the folks at Outreach to deliver a truly unique perspective on cold email strategy. We'll be discussing real emails that grabbed our attention, then providing tried and true templates that deliver results.
A successful sales team might have a strong bond, achieve the required business and smash their KPI targets, month in, month out. They are confident in what they do, where to go and who to speak with to ensure that they achieve sales.
Is this a finely tuned team that do 'enough' so that everyone's happy, or is this a team that is held back on becoming truly great?
The Ultimate Indestructible Blueprint for Maximizing Sales in 2017Meredith Oliver
Presented at the 2017 International Builders Show by Meredith Oliver, Evan Carroll, and Stan Phelps.
An indestructible sales and marketing strategy in 2017 recognizes one vital element: customer experience is the new marketing. In fact, new Gartner research indicates that nearly 90% of companies will compete based mainly on the experience they create for buyers. SPOILER ALERT: The sales strategies that brought you success in the past will be far less effective going forward. This Master Session examined each stage of the buying-journey and recommends opportunities to add value and exceed customer expectations throughout. Attendees discovered how to create a complete sales and marketing blueprint that marries digital marketing, social media, selling skills, and customer experience into one unstoppable process resulting in more leads, traffic and sales.
Why We Automate: Observations from billions of customer interactionsMediaPost
From machine learning to natural language processing to artificial intelligence, brands can invest in an open space of technologies and scale marketing efforts like never before. Yet while automation enables marketers to move faster, think bigger, and dive deeper, we should take a moment to remember the why and the who. Vicky Ge shares her observations on innovations in automation, marketing at scale, and the human on the other side of the inbox.
Provocative ideas to shape your digital strategyDavid Jarvis
Summary of a short talk I gave at Customer Experience Explored event in London on 15 March 2017, hosted by Biglight
http://biglight.co.uk/news/585/biglight-hosts-custom…
You can hear my dulcet tones for the last 5 mins of the talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBk0Y1uNXlA
How to Email CXOs: Tips from real cold emailsDatanyze
In this month's webinar, we've teamed up with the folks at Outreach to deliver a truly unique perspective on cold email strategy. We'll be discussing real emails that grabbed our attention, then providing tried and true templates that deliver results.
It is true that digital marketing is extended through new approaches. Creative marketing plans are really helpful to generate leads and interest in the market. But, some strategies, it seemed, never go out of the demand. Email marketing is one of them that have seen an increasing demand in recent years. The approaches are modified to fit into the modern techniques perfectly and email marketing automation is thus introduced.
The term automation defines a less work and more accuracy. Email marketing comes up with the same promises. Earlier, companies needed to plan a campaign for their email marketing and a new design and thought was needed every time marketers send emails to their customers. Email marketing automation has completely changed the scenario. It has become more consumer-specific and has eliminated the unnecessary steps for this campaign. Now, you can fix your emails for automation.
For more information visit our page : www.leadsopolis.com
Are you looking to increase the amount of leads and sales you receive through your website?
Find out how to instantly grow your email subscriber lists and increase the leads and sales you receive through your website. This free guide is guaranteed to give you the advantage you're looking for in your business.
With this guide you will discover...
How to identify and target your ideal customer.
Massively Increase your email subscriber lists and increase leads and sales.
Build effective landing pages and sales pages for your website.
Find and remove the elements stopping you from making even more sales on your website.
The tools required to help you measure your results and make meaningful adjustments.
Concrete examples of how one can improve the quality of live chat operation. Contains examples for improving both agent experience and customer experience. Read the associated blog here: bit.ly/LIVECHATANDTECH
Are you underutilizing email marketing and marketing automation? The chances are that you're only scratching the surface of what's possible. The customer lifecycle should be your primary focus when looking to communicate with your customers and you need to map out the key touchpoints to effectively target customers with relevant messages and offers.
99% of retailers are merely doing the basics with email marketing automation. In this webinar, Philip Storey, Founder and CEO of Enchant Agency, will show you how to kick-start your customer lifecycle with email and help you become one of the 1% winning at email marketing.
You’ll learn:
The fundamentals of the customer lifecycle
Why email marketing is still the most effective channel for nurturing customer relationships
The importance of really listening to your customers
How to map out your customer lifecycle for email
How to create new interactions that generate revenue and improve the customer experience
Great lifecycle email examples from top brands across different industries
Achieve high growth by keeping customers coming back to your ecommerce websiteKissmetrics on SlideShare
Success! You’ve got a regular stream of sales coming in, but the cost of acquisition is so high, how do you make this more profitable? How do you increase the lifetime value of a customer by enticing them to come back?
A healthy customer retention rate is a key factor in any high growth business. You can’t be a high growth without it!
During this webinar, Tom Robertshaw, Ecommerce Evangelist at Space 48, will take you through how to factor in customer retention in all areas of the business. Whether this is improving auditing and improving website user experience or through identifying targetted email campaign opportunities.
You’ll learn:
A wide range of opportunities for re-engaging with customers
Different ways to evaluate your website performance and customer satisfaction
How to prioritise the newly identified opportunities so that you can take the next step and test them
Real-life examples of how our customers have increased revenues through successful customer retention strategies
Examples of how to use proactive live chat in sales context (sales chat): Illustrated use cases for generating sales leads, driving more paid subscriptions, and for increasing average order value.
Whеn bеginning or еxраnding your buѕinеѕѕ’ѕ оnlinе sales, one оf thе mоѕt imроrtаnt dесiѕiоnѕ tо mаkе is how уоu will ассерt рауmеntѕ frоm уоur сuѕtоmеrѕ. There аrе diffеrеnt options available tо thе еCоm merchant for payment processing. In раrtiсulаr, PayPal hаѕ grоwn beyond its rооtѕ as an еBау рауmеnt platform аnd bесоmе vеrу popular аmоng ѕmаll оnlinе businesses.
In this presentation on behalf of Standard Press, Terminus Co-Founder & CMO Sangram Vajre shares why ABM & H2H are the future of B2B marketing. Learn how "customer heroism" can transform the buyer's journey.
It is true that digital marketing is extended through new approaches. Creative marketing plans are really helpful to generate leads and interest in the market. But, some strategies, it seemed, never go out of the demand. Email marketing is one of them that have seen an increasing demand in recent years. The approaches are modified to fit into the modern techniques perfectly and email marketing automation is thus introduced.
The term automation defines a less work and more accuracy. Email marketing comes up with the same promises. Earlier, companies needed to plan a campaign for their email marketing and a new design and thought was needed every time marketers send emails to their customers. Email marketing automation has completely changed the scenario. It has become more consumer-specific and has eliminated the unnecessary steps for this campaign. Now, you can fix your emails for automation.
For more information visit our page : www.leadsopolis.com
Are you looking to increase the amount of leads and sales you receive through your website?
Find out how to instantly grow your email subscriber lists and increase the leads and sales you receive through your website. This free guide is guaranteed to give you the advantage you're looking for in your business.
With this guide you will discover...
How to identify and target your ideal customer.
Massively Increase your email subscriber lists and increase leads and sales.
Build effective landing pages and sales pages for your website.
Find and remove the elements stopping you from making even more sales on your website.
The tools required to help you measure your results and make meaningful adjustments.
Concrete examples of how one can improve the quality of live chat operation. Contains examples for improving both agent experience and customer experience. Read the associated blog here: bit.ly/LIVECHATANDTECH
Are you underutilizing email marketing and marketing automation? The chances are that you're only scratching the surface of what's possible. The customer lifecycle should be your primary focus when looking to communicate with your customers and you need to map out the key touchpoints to effectively target customers with relevant messages and offers.
99% of retailers are merely doing the basics with email marketing automation. In this webinar, Philip Storey, Founder and CEO of Enchant Agency, will show you how to kick-start your customer lifecycle with email and help you become one of the 1% winning at email marketing.
You’ll learn:
The fundamentals of the customer lifecycle
Why email marketing is still the most effective channel for nurturing customer relationships
The importance of really listening to your customers
How to map out your customer lifecycle for email
How to create new interactions that generate revenue and improve the customer experience
Great lifecycle email examples from top brands across different industries
Achieve high growth by keeping customers coming back to your ecommerce websiteKissmetrics on SlideShare
Success! You’ve got a regular stream of sales coming in, but the cost of acquisition is so high, how do you make this more profitable? How do you increase the lifetime value of a customer by enticing them to come back?
A healthy customer retention rate is a key factor in any high growth business. You can’t be a high growth without it!
During this webinar, Tom Robertshaw, Ecommerce Evangelist at Space 48, will take you through how to factor in customer retention in all areas of the business. Whether this is improving auditing and improving website user experience or through identifying targetted email campaign opportunities.
You’ll learn:
A wide range of opportunities for re-engaging with customers
Different ways to evaluate your website performance and customer satisfaction
How to prioritise the newly identified opportunities so that you can take the next step and test them
Real-life examples of how our customers have increased revenues through successful customer retention strategies
Examples of how to use proactive live chat in sales context (sales chat): Illustrated use cases for generating sales leads, driving more paid subscriptions, and for increasing average order value.
Whеn bеginning or еxраnding your buѕinеѕѕ’ѕ оnlinе sales, one оf thе mоѕt imроrtаnt dесiѕiоnѕ tо mаkе is how уоu will ассерt рауmеntѕ frоm уоur сuѕtоmеrѕ. There аrе diffеrеnt options available tо thе еCоm merchant for payment processing. In раrtiсulаr, PayPal hаѕ grоwn beyond its rооtѕ as an еBау рауmеnt platform аnd bесоmе vеrу popular аmоng ѕmаll оnlinе businesses.
In this presentation on behalf of Standard Press, Terminus Co-Founder & CMO Sangram Vajre shares why ABM & H2H are the future of B2B marketing. Learn how "customer heroism" can transform the buyer's journey.
"How to Raise Money For Your First Start Up"
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Step up your email marketing game today!EngageBay Inc
This slide provides detailed information on building email marketing campaigns that get results. Don't get lost in the sea of familiarity and stand out in your customer's inbox.
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MLM Training Lounge - Part 7 - The Follow-Up - MLM Business InsanityShane Petty
Discover why it’s critical that prospects find you. In The Follow-Up MLM training, you’ll unlock the key to developing your follow-up strategy that leads to online marketing success. You won’t believe 4 shocking follow-up statistics – but they’re true. Discover why many marketers fail online and how you can avoid following in their shoes.
Complete 12-Month Ecommerce Marketing PlanSumo Group
Do you have big aspirations for your eCommerce business?
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The secret to eCommerce success is not just to get your products out there and see how they perform.
Without a marketing plan, you might miss out on the fact that 96% of Americans with internet access have made an online purchase in their life, 80% in the past month alone.
In this presentation, I’m going to walk you through a 12-month eCommerce marketing plan you can use to successfully grow your business.
Each month contains actionable and tactical strategies that you’ll be able to refer to again and again throughout the year.
This presentation was delivered as part of a webinar for B2B marketers and Salesforce.com users. The presentation has 2 parts: the first covers common email marketing (mis)perceptions, an the second discusses a progressive approach to using Salesforce.com and services that integrate with it for email marketing and marketing automation.
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Citrix Peer Exchange : Indeed.com - Oct 2020 - Barry Magee
I'm an experienced senior business leader focused on how data-driven transformation creates organisational value with deep experience in sales, marketing, strategy, operations, and change management. I’m a recognized industry-leading specialist and academic on effective and systemic innovation using data and analytics to build competitive advantage and tangible results.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrymagee/
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Lily Smirnova "Як зробити потенційного своїм клієнтом: можливі і неможливі підходи." LIOF 2017
1. How to approach your
customer to finally get
them
Lily Smirnova, CoreValue
2.
3. 4 out 5 marketers say their email open rates don’t
exceed 20%.
79% of marketing leads never convert into sales.
- Oracle, the state of B2B nurturing survey
Just facts?
6. Prospects receive an average of 10
multiple touches until they’re a closed-
won customer.
49% of marketers include less than 5
- Lead nurturing benchmark studies, 2016
11. Enterprise level
prospect numbers many
`interesting faces` to
follow.
We need to find our
champion among
them all!
Or just make them be
ones -)
12. Startup
prospect numbers not that
many `interesting faces` to
follow. But there are some
It’s easier to find our
champion among them!
13. 1. Generate email addresses
2. Compose a chain of 8-10 email messages
3. Think of A/B tests!
4. Think of personalization
5. Use automation
Suddenly, it turns out that we’ve got over 100 variations of email
messages. Long way to get it done -)
And remember, 80% of your work will be wasted!
What we do next
21. More INSIGHTS
Marketing 3.0 is about being EMOTIONAL
Create and maintain this on-going emotional connection/touch with your
customers.
How is it called?
BRANDING STORYTELLING
It’s all about different ways to communicate with your prospect
It’s all about consistent messages
To get a help create a whole picture of yourself
What facts say
List of IPO issuers in the US
That resonate to your buyer persona
Effective multi=channel lead nurturing most commonly involve a combination of marketing, social media, paid retargeting, direct mail, direct sales outreach.
Effective multi=channel lead nurturing most commonly involve a combination of marketing, social media, paid retargeting, direct mail, direct sales outreach.
http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/14-brilliant-outdoor-ads-rocked-real-world-2014-161999/
Funny joyful ads from Google promoting the app. Supporting the style of NY
For this lovely Valentine's Day stunt, ad agency Kingsday installed 1,500 cute little red boxes around Paris, modeled after emergency boxes—but containing single red roses. "In case of love at first sight, break glass," the boxes said.
Posters of IBM
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Для цього вам необхідний дискриптор чи ідентифікатор по якому вас впізнають - ринок, де працюєте; важлива відмінність-унікальність, за якою клієнт має вас відрізнити… і третє - чому вас мають купити?) - що може зводитись до банальних потреб визнання, лідерства і тд за пірамідою потреб Маслоу: Мама-домогосподарка готує і хоче похвали від сімї
ZAG
https://blog.udemy.com/storytelling-techniques/
13 Great Storytelling Techniques To Make Your Stories Memorable
1. Show it
Great and influential stories do not “tell”, they “show”. Through storytelling elements like plot, character, conflict, theme, and setting, you can show your message and let your audience arrive at your meaning at a comfortable pace.
2. Length matters
Stories can be really short or as long as a book. There are no constraints other than the time your audience has available. That being said though, your long story ceases to be a story the moment it becomes boring. People will lose interest and move on. When in doubt, keep your stories short as possible while still conveying all of the information.
3. Likable character
Characters can be and should be flawed because this is what makes them real. Nobody is perfect and it’s hard to identify with a perfect character. Your character also needs to be likeable because you want your audience to be pulling for them to succeed. Let your audience see your character evolve and go through an array of emotions. Nothing is more disappointing than a static character. As stated in the first technique, don’t tell us who your character is, show us.
4. There should be a plot
A plot serves as the guiding force in your story. It helps ensure there is a beginning, middle, and end and all of the fun stuff in between. This is important because it makes your audience feel comfortable and allows them to focus on other aspects of your story. Also, a good ending will provide your audience with closure. Leaving your character clinging to the edge of the cliff is only acceptable if you are setting yourself up for the next chapter.
5. Foreshadowing
Nothing is more exciting to a listener or reader than realizing that the storyteller or author is revealing clues throughout the story. This is a great way to keep your audience engaged in your tale.
6. Keep the dialogue real
This is important because as a listener or a reader, we are immediately distracted when something sounds off, cliché, or is just out of place. A good way to check and see if your dialogue sounds good is to read it aloud. Often times, this is an easy way to pick-up on words that are disruptive to our ears.
7. Conflict
If everybody is happy-go-lucky and the sun is shining then what is the purpose of telling the story in the first place? Stories are about conflict and trying to overcome it. Will the main character succeed? How will the conflict be resolved? This is the reason your audience will stay engaged. Stories can have more than one conflict too. Try weaving smaller conflicts into various points of the story to support an overarching conflict.
8. Use a model
There are many common narratives most stories follow. These include the hero’s journey, the coming of age tale, and an anecdote. Try taking a common narrative and applying it to your own story. You may find that it serves as the perfect foundation.
9. Add a personal touch
Whether you are telling a story to pitch a product or to entertain, consider adding a personal touch. A personal touch will give your pitch the “real” factor. This can be delivered in the form of a testimonial. If you are creating a story to entertain, draw on your own life experiences to add to the story. This will make your story feel more authentic. Learn how to record and tell your life story with this course.
10. Point of View
If you find your story lacking, try changing your point of view. Third person point of views tend to be the most common. Try telling your story from a first person point of view. Maybe we are seeing things from the point of view of a small child or an animal who doesn’t fully understand everything that is happening around them. Experiment with point of view to bring an exciting edge to your story.
11. Start with a bang!
Get your audience involved right away by starting your story with a bang. Try opening with a mystery, in the middle of your story, or from a distance. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t worry. You can always go back and tweak the beginning once you finish your story.
12. Know what you are trying to convey
What is the purpose of this story? Is it to entertain? To relay a message? To teach a lesson? Whatever your purpose of telling your story is, keep it in the forefront of your mind as you are going.
13. The delivery
You have constructed the perfect story, now how are you going to deliver it? Are you going to write it down for people to read to themselves, is it meant to be read aloud by others, or will you be telling your story verbally to others? The final delivery method matters. You might have to change your story up a bit to ensure it is being told in the most beneficial manner.
13 Great Storytelling Techniques To Make Your Stories Memorable
1. Show it
Great and influential stories do not “tell”, they “show”. Through storytelling elements like plot, character, conflict, theme, and setting, you can show your message and let your audience arrive at your meaning at a comfortable pace.
2. Length matters
Stories can be really short or as long as a book. There are no constraints other than the time your audience has available. That being said though, your long story ceases to be a story the moment it becomes boring. People will lose interest and move on. When in doubt, keep your stories short as possible while still conveying all of the information.
3. Likable character
Characters can be and should be flawed because this is what makes them real. Nobody is perfect and it’s hard to identify with a perfect character. Your character also needs to be likeable because you want your audience to be pulling for them to succeed. Let your audience see your character evolve and go through an array of emotions. Nothing is more disappointing than a static character. As stated in the first technique, don’t tell us who your character is, show us.
4. There should be a plot
A plot serves as the guiding force in your story. It helps ensure there is a beginning, middle, and end and all of the fun stuff in between. This is important because it makes your audience feel comfortable and allows them to focus on other aspects of your story. Also, a good ending will provide your audience with closure. Leaving your character clinging to the edge of the cliff is only acceptable if you are setting yourself up for the next chapter.
5. Foreshadowing
Nothing is more exciting to a listener or reader than realizing that the storyteller or author is revealing clues throughout the story. This is a great way to keep your audience engaged in your tale.
6. Keep the dialogue real
This is important because as a listener or a reader, we are immediately distracted when something sounds off, cliché, or is just out of place. A good way to check and see if your dialogue sounds good is to read it aloud. Often times, this is an easy way to pick-up on words that are disruptive to our ears.
7. Conflict
If everybody is happy-go-lucky and the sun is shining then what is the purpose of telling the story in the first place? Stories are about conflict and trying to overcome it. Will the main character succeed? How will the conflict be resolved? This is the reason your audience will stay engaged. Stories can have more than one conflict too. Try weaving smaller conflicts into various points of the story to support an overarching conflict.
8. Use a model
There are many common narratives most stories follow. These include the hero’s journey, the coming of age tale, and an anecdote. Try taking a common narrative and applying it to your own story. You may find that it serves as the perfect foundation.
9. Add a personal touch
Whether you are telling a story to pitch a product or to entertain, consider adding a personal touch. A personal touch will give your pitch the “real” factor. This can be delivered in the form of a testimonial. If you are creating a story to entertain, draw on your own life experiences to add to the story. This will make your story feel more authentic. Learn how to record and tell your life story with this course.
10. Point of View
If you find your story lacking, try changing your point of view. Third person point of views tend to be the most common. Try telling your story from a first person point of view. Maybe we are seeing things from the point of view of a small child or an animal who doesn’t fully understand everything that is happening around them. Experiment with point of view to bring an exciting edge to your story.
11. Start with a bang!
Get your audience involved right away by starting your story with a bang. Try opening with a mystery, in the middle of your story, or from a distance. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t worry. You can always go back and tweak the beginning once you finish your story.
12. Know what you are trying to convey
What is the purpose of this story? Is it to entertain? To relay a message? To teach a lesson? Whatever your purpose of telling your story is, keep it in the forefront of your mind as you are going.
13. The delivery
You have constructed the perfect story, now how are you going to deliver it? Are you going to write it down for people to read to themselves, is it meant to be read aloud by others, or will you be telling your story verbally to others? The final delivery method matters. You might have to change your story up a bit to ensure it is being told in the most beneficial manner.