Human Resources
Ensuring Success for New Hires
The first 90 days of a new appointment is make it or break it for your new employees. Your company’s communication strategy is a critical element of your company’s onboarding process if you want to retain the great people you’ve recruited. “Your goal in every transition is to get as rapidly as possible to the break-even point,” writes Michael D….
Digital Signage
Five Creative Ways to Utilize Digital Signage
While many of our customers utilize Retrievers to replace their paper-congested bulletin board, there are also some creative, outside-the-box uses for digital signage that might surprise you! If you’ve considered integrating Retrievers into your communications strategy, you’ll want to consider some of these uses for your business. Digital Menus Whether you’re fast food, fast casual, or just running a concessions stand,…
Recreation/Entertainment
Re-creating Recreation
We’ve all seen it happen: all of your informative brochures and flyers are neatly set at the front door. Your patrons visit the kiosk and either ignore them entirely, or they take one of everything, only to eventually toss the information. As business owners, we all ask ourselves, “How can I highlight the most important things for my…
Churches
Engage Your Congregation
If you’ve been involved in a church for any length of time, you’ve experienced this scene: each Sunday morning, your congregants are welcomed and handed a paper bulletin with the important updates on the life of the church: upcoming events, special announcements, prayer requests, and reports on various ministries. One of two things happen with that bulletin….
Retriever Users
Keep it Simple.
When it comes to marketing technology, it seems like “user-friendly” isn’t the norm. In a small business when you’re wearing multiple hats, you simply don’t have time for a steep learning curve to get your message out. That’s why a simple, straight-forward interface is important to us at Retriever. Whether you are tech savvy or technophobic, Retriever is quick to learn and…
Human Resources
Three Secrets to Keeping Your Best Employees
Finding great people, and keeping them, is paramount to your business’s longterm success. Too often, it seems like the conversation on employee retention is mostly directed at salary, and while it’s important to pay your people competitively, there’s more to the story when it comes to employee retention. Have you ever known someone who was stuck in…
Retriever Users
3 Pro-Tips to Make the Most of Your Retrievers
Retriever Digital Signage is the most effective way to communicate to your customers and employees. We love to see our customers and their businesses thrive by using their Retrievers well. Here are a few suggestions on how you can make the most of our versatile system! Vary Your Message Even though it may seem counter-intuitive, it’s most effective to include a mixture…
Marketing
The Secret to Engagement
It can be tempting to focus all your messaging around the same central point: “Buy our stuff!” In reality, when your message is one note, you’re communicating to your customers that you only have one thing to say, and they’re tuning out. Building a relationship with your customers is about a dialogue, back and forth. When you dialogue with a friend,…
Human Resources
Building a Team: 5 Tips for Effective Onboarding
We’ve written about how expensive it can be to your company to lose your valuable team members to employee turnover. It’s equally important to remember that onboarding a new employee is one of the most important steps to building a successful team. More often than not “bad hires” are actually good employees who weren’t well-integrated into your team. A successful employee onboarding…
Human Resources
The Real Cost of Employee Turnover
Your business’ most important asset is your employees. Recruiting the right people to your team is one challenge, but keeping them there requires a strong communications strategy and commitment to employee satisfaction. When you do lose an employee, you probably think about the costs of hiring someone new as advertising for the position, possibly contracting a recruitment service, or paying a temporary replacement. In reality,…