Communication
Communications Gaps: Why They’re Happening
Every business faces issues with communication at some point. As technology changes, and time passes, it’s easy to think we’re communicating better than ever, when in fact we’re barely getting the message across in an environment constantly cluttering peoples’ attention with notifications and messaging. HR professionals, business owners, operations managers – you see it every…
Human Resources
Improve Your Communication, Improve Your Employee Retention
In manufacturing, one of the biggest and most frustrating challenges is employee retention. For HR leaders in the field, their job requires constant energy spent in recruitment, onboarding, and communicating… and re-communicating. When the labor pool is small, employee retention is all the more critical: when you find good, qualified employees, you want to keep…
Human Resources
3 Reasons It’s Harder Than Ever To Communicate With Your Factory’s Employees
If you’ve been in manufacturing for any length of time, you’ve noticed: it’s harder than ever to get the message across to your team. In the communication age, what should be easier – communicating – feels frustrating and it’s wasting a lot of time in your week. Why is it so much harder to communicate…
Retriever Users
Why Your Existing Customers Go to the Competition
We’ve all been there. We think our loyal customers know what services or products we offer and then we’re caught off-guard when we find out that they’ve gone to a competitor for something we could do for them. When that happens, a business questions their quality, pricing, or the loyalty of the customer, when in…
Small Business
The Biggest Challenge Facing Small Business Owners
As small business owners ourselves, we get it – ensuring that your customers and employees are happy with your business while maintaining an appropriate amount of growth and a healthy ROI can be a constant balancing act. Small business owners wear a number of hats and may function in a number of roles on their…
Human Resources
3 Tips for Communicating More Effectively With Employees
It hasn’t always been such a challenge to communicate well in a corporate setting. Before the days of automatic deposit, there were physical paychecks that employees took home, and you could put the most important messages inside. People weren’t as distracted, either, but with a cell phone constantly in hand, it’s hard to get the…
Marketing
How to Create Digital Signage to Support Your Marketing Strategy
Marketing in the digital age is no simple task – it requires thoughtful coordination of outbound and inbound strategies in order to ensure that your product is meeting the marketplace with the right message, the right price, and right positioning. Today’s marketer has a robust toolkit… and limited time and budget. When we created Retriever…
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….
Human Resources
Digital Signage = Less Work For HR
Communication in the information age should be easier, but we can all attest that there is so much input at any given time that it’s hard to know which messages are the most important. Marketers know that most messages have to be delivered 7 times before any action is taken. When you’re familiar with the rule of 7,…
Higher Ed
Getting the Message Across to University Students
Fans of the television show “The Office” remember a hilarious idea that the character Ryan, the entrepreneur, came up with an idea called WUPHF! – a way to send a message to every communication portal a person had. Today, it feels like we need to WUPHF! to get anyone’s attention long enough to get the message across. As recently…