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…
Business Goals
5 Ways to Boost Sales with Digital Signage
We all know the holidays are the most critical sales period of the year for many retailers, and we want to see you succeed! Here are five ways to boost your sales this season capitalizing on your digital signage: 1. Highlight special items If you carry special products during the season that you’d like to showcase, don’t let them…
Retriever Slides
It’s Time to Update Your Playlist
Variety is the spice of life! One of the greatest benefits of your Retriever Digital Signage is that it’s quick and simple to build, design, and schedule. As a result, many of our customers “set it and forget it.” Which, is a huge perk when you have lots to do. To maximize impact with your viewers, however,…
Retriever Users
5 Ways to Master Your Digital Signage
So you’ve got your Retriever screens up and running and you’re ready to take things to the next level. We want to see your communication strategy soar! Here are five tips to make sure your digital signage is working for you, every time. 1.) More slides is more! Don’t try to jam all the information into one…
Retriever Users
Five Pro-Tips on Mastering Your Signage
It’s the perfect time to step up your digital signage game! Whether you’re a pro already or a novice to digital signage, these five resources will make it simple for you to make a maximum impact with your digital signage, no matter your industry. Create Substantial Content We’re all guilty of it: just creating content to for…
Schools
Back to School Ideas for Your Digital Signage
There’s nothing like the first days of school to reset your routine and start some great habits for the new year. This school year, engage your students with your compelling and interesting digital signage. We recommend incorporating these elements: Sporting Events Whether it’s details for attendance, highlights from the last game, or great photos from recent events, your…
Schools
Students Create Relevant Digital Signage
Employing digital signage across your campus is the smart way to get and keep students engaged. If you really want to keep students engaged, get them involved in the content creation for the digital signage. After all, who knows better than students what students want to see and will respond to? By engaging your students in your digital…
Retriever Users
10 Commonly-Made Grammatical Errors
Nobody’s perfect, and we’ve made these errors too. But, in the digital age, poor grammar is an instant chip on your credibility. Bookmark this and reference back when you’re unsure! Your/You’re – “Your” is a possessive pronoun, as in “your car” or “your desk“. “You’re” is a contraction of “you are“. For example: “You’re screwing up your writing…
Design
Pro-Tips for Typing Great Messages
So, you have your Retrievers up and running and you’re already noticing that people actually know about the things you’ve been communicating – win! Ready to take it to the next level? Here are our pro-tips for signage that communicates effectively: 1. Choose your Typeface Wisely – Your message needs to be readable, so select a…
Retriever Users
5 Ways to Polish Your Digital Signage
You’ve already got your digital signage up and running and you know what you’re doing. Here are some tips to take your signage from good to great! 1. Proof-read The meaning of a sign with grammatical errors and misspellings instantly changes from the message you intended to “we don’t know what we’re doing.” In the…
Small Business
Digital Signage Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult
As small business owners, we know what it feels like to wear all the hats. Small business owners are at once the CEO/CFO/COO/VP of Marketing/Secretary and more. It’s critical for a jack-of-all-trades that whatever they do to promote their business is easy, fast, and effective so that they can spend their time on other things. We created the Retriever Digital Signage to be…
Design
How to Turn Yourself into a One Person Graphic Design Department
No money in the marketing budget to hire a graphic designer? No worries! You can create eye-catching and beautiful signage simply, even if graphic design isn’t your thing. Here are three tips for amping up your graphic design for your Retriever screens: 1. Less is more Remember, your digital signs don’t have to be the encyclopedia – their job…
Retriever Users
Marketers Love Digital Signage, As Long as It’s Easy
In the past decade, a wealth of new advertising tools have exploded into our culture, and that’s a good thing… mostly. Marketing professionals can barely bat their eyes without having a new tool roll out, a new channel, a new option. It’s an amazing time to be a marketer, but also a bit dizzying. Many of the most effective tools are…
Auto Dealerships
3 Reasons Auto Dealerships Love Digital Signage
Consumers make buying decisions differently in the 21st century: they do the research at home, they shop your dealership and others before they ever set a foot on the lot, and they probably think they’re the expert. Successful dealerships are taking this challenge in stride, and one way they’re doing that is through strategically placed digital signage….
Restaurants
Restaurants, Own Your Four Walls Marketing
I was in a pizza place recently, looking over the menu. As I was trying to make my decision about which pizza to order, a competitor’s pizza came on the screen in front of me for a lower price than the restaurant I was sitting in. So, I asked the waitress if they’d match the price of their…
Retriever Users
Digital Signage Strategy Development
As you design your Retriever Digital Signage campaigns, you’ll want to make sure that you have an effective strategy for both the communication and the responsibility. First, decide how your logo will be displayed. If you have an organization-wide brand, you may want to incorporate the colors, text, and graphics into your slides. Perhaps the…