Retail
Increase Communication, Increase Sales
If you’re a B2C company with a storefront, it’s never been harder to grab the attention of your customers. Customers come into your store having already researched your products, sales, and promotions as well as your competitors. While they peruse, they’re price checking on their phones at best, and skimming social media at worst. Engaging…
Retriever Users
Refer Retriever!
When we created Retriever, it’s because our clients had a need, and we were primed to help. Our company has been an expert in communication for more than three decades, and we had clients who wanted a more dynamic way to communicate with their employees and customers than their bulletin boards and static signage could…
Human Resources
Onboard well!
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 started on the wrong foot. During employee onboarding, you have the opportunity to give a new employee a sense of belonging as a part of your team, as well as…
Human Resources
Increase Your Employee Retention with These Three Tips
There is way more at play than money, when it comes to employee retention. We all know it’s hard to keep our best people, and it costs a lot more to hire a new employee than it does to retain a good one. But, when our employees begin to disengage, they take their first steps…
Digital Signage
Four Ways to Increase the Impact of Your Digital Signage
When you installed your digital signage, people took notice. Your employees started to have a better sense of upcoming events and announcements, your customers became more aware of upcoming promotions, and everyone commented on the new addition. As time went on, though, you might be noticing a decrease in the impact your signage once had….
Communication
The Top Communication Issue Businesses Face
We all have to communicate: with our friends, our families, our co-workers, our clients. Communication in the digital age is more of an art than an exact science. After all, everyone thinks they’re doing it effectively. Yet, more often than not, people miss the message. In fact, we’ve all experienced the frustration of thinking we’ve…
Human Resources
What Your Bulletin Board Isn’t For
If you’re trying to communicate with a busy workforce, time is of the essence. There’s only one of you, so the best thing you can do to ensure that your message gets across is to utilize effective communication strategies. Most offices employ a bulletin board to assist with getting the word out, but here’s the…
Human Resources
Three Factors Impacting Your Employees’ Attention
In the communication age, what should be easier – communicating – feels frustrating and it’s wasting a lot of time in your week. But it’s not, is it? In fact, you probably spend more time than ever repeating yourself and trying to roll out new policies. Why is it so much harder to communicate with…
Schools
Uniting Your School with Digital Signage
Each new school year is a fresh start, offering opportunities for teachers, administrators and students to grow and improve. As the school year begins, it’s full of the potential to be the best year yet. Administrators have an opportunity to empower and unite their families around their school. There’s nothing like the district coming together…
Digital Signage
Keep it Fresh!
Every two days, we create as much content as humankind created in all of the years preceding the year 2003. Take that in for a second. The pace at which content can be created and circulated in a digital society is hard to wrap your head around, but more than that, it’s hard to know what…
Retriever Users
Client Spotlight: Dairy Queen
We love seeing the way our clients are utilizing Retriever in their businesses in new and creative ways, and our local Dairy Queen restaurant is leading the pack with their community-minded approach to digital signage. Business owners are curious and innovative type of people. Growing a successful business requires that its owners keep their eyes…
Business Goals
The Simple Trick to Stop Repeating Yourself
Monday morning staff meeting, you roll out a new and important employee procedure. You tell the story about what led to this procedure, you talk about it in detail, and you make it clear that this is a mandatory and immediate change. By Wednesday, though, your team has forgotten, and you find yourself repeating the…
Retriever Users
Three Creative Ways to Use Your Retriever Digital Signage
Digital signage is one of the best investments you can make into your business’s communication strategy, because it’s one of the most flexible tools available to you. When you have an idea, having digital signage in place allows you to quickly and easily bring that idea to life and get the word out about it….
Digital Signage
Delight Your Waiting Customers
No one likes to wait. Because waiting often feels frustrating for customers, by the time they reach your employees the burden of that frustration is unloaded on your already overworked team, making the wait the source of a problem for your customers and employees alike. Waiting is just a part of life, and most people are…
Human Resources
The Solution for Workplace Frustration
We’ve all been there. The problems aren’t big, but they’re frequent and persistent. Each day, you head home feeling irritable, exhausted, and drained. When the road is bumpy with you team, frustration is an emotion that can overtake not just you, but your entire culture. Frustration in the workplace is a symptom of a bigger…
Human Resources
5 Ways to Encourage Your Employees
We’ve all been there. The workload is heavy, the work feels monotonous, and going to work just feels like a slog. When you’re in a funk, you need something to disrupt the daily grind, something that helps you remember why you’re there in the first place. Disheartened, tired employees need their leaders to step into…