Retail
Digital Signage: Keeping Retailers Vibrant in a Changing Economy
The retail industry is being forced to reimagine its business model as it faces the persistent challenge of serving local customers in worldwide marketplace that includes online competitors. Nationwide, retail stores are closing at an alarming rate three times that of even a year ago. National brands like Payless, The Limited, Sears, and dozens more…
Communication
Communicating Well: Choice Words
Whether you’re writing a quick promotion for a digital sign or an e-book, words are important. They’re vital to getting your point across clearly and effectively. Have you ever had a misunderstanding with a friend or loved one via text or email? I frequently use the words “pal” and “buddy” to refer to my friends…
Small Business
Communicating Well: Brand Voice
For a small business, sometimes getting any content out is nothing short of a miracle. After all, you spend your days thinking about your clients before yourselves and next thing you know, months have passed and your own marketing has been neglected. Perhaps you’re lucky enough to have an in-house marketing professional or an agency telling your story…
Churches
Taking the Church Bulletin Digital
In the 90s, a church that used a projector and screen to share any sort of information was rare, cutting edge even. But this is 2016. If you aren’t sharing your information in a digital format, you might as well put the shoulder pads back in your Sunday pant suit. Digital signage doesn’t have to…
Business Goals
Using Digital Signage to Increase Productivity
It happens every weekend. Employees working overtime spend far too long on their breaks. Sure, it’s the weekend, but isn’t the point of overtime getting extra work done? How can Retriever Digital Signage help? Let’s consider where your tv signage is placed around your facility. Is it in the break room? The production floor? Locker…
Healthcare
Using Digital Signage in Your Hospital
Hospitals have a reputation for being filled with stress. To combat this, walls are painted soothing colors, classical music plays and the food is constantly under-going change. It can feel as though each patient is a number, and as such hospital administrators are constantly working to reduce the intimidation factor of any interaction with their…
Other
Tips for Honoring the Military with Retriever Digital Signage
America’s military service men and women are all around us. Their children go to school with ours. Their spouses grocery shop in the aisle next to ours. Their parents live across the street, each day glancing at their flag in pride for their child’s life choices. The sacrifices made by each individual and family are ones…
Business Goals
3 Ways the Retriever can Shake up Workplace Communication
What’s on your desk right now that would be beneficial, morale boosting even, for your employees to see? Are those customer satisfaction letters sitting in a pile having only been read by you? Have you thanked the employee who went above and beyond lately? Does anyone know where the company stands with quarterly sales? What can…
Business Goals
Digital Organization – Not just for Springtime anymore!
With each season comes the desire for fresh content and now is certainly the time to step back and evaluate your Retriever Digital Signage messages for efficacy in communication. Just as it is easy to get in a rut with your own daily habits, it’s a slippery slope in your digital communications. Taking a seasonal inventory will afford you…
Business Goals
Keep your communication out of the trash
You and I know that our world is a fast-paced, instant communication place to be. Gone are the days of people standing around a bulletin board scribbling notes into their day timer. For that matter, the days of people actually sitting down and reading all the emails in their inbox are also gone. If you…