In this webinar, Duda explores how the more relevant a website experience is to a consumer, the more likely they are to engage with a business. For access to all of our past webinars and for a look at what’s to come, visit http://bit.ly/LSAwebinars.
Разработка Google Extensions. Начальный уровень. MeetUP 4 #yarfrontendkaknado.me
Доклад Владимира Павлова на мероприятии MeetUP 4.
Подробная информация:
http://yarfrontend.ru/talks/chrome-extension/
Читайте наш блог по клиентской лояльности:
http://www.kaknado.me/blog
The slides from Geoff Watts' talk "How Simple Maths & BELIEF Can Help You Coach People To Change" given at the Psychology of Agile & Scrum Meetup group in London in October 2015
The narrator is infatuated with a beautiful young woman who is unattainable and uninterested in him. He pursues her despite knowing she will not reciprocate his feelings. Meanwhile, an older, mature woman wants a serious relationship with the narrator, but he only wants something physical. She tells him he is wasting his time chasing the younger woman and that he is "not nineteen forever." Eventually, with the encouragement of friends, the narrator starts to realize he needs to move on from his unattainable dream girl. This storyline provides a potential narrative for the lyrics of the song. Further analysis of the lyrics against this concept is needed to determine if it will work as the final idea for a music video.
Din cloud launched hosted sql server dinsqldinCloud Inc.
dinCloud Announces Hosted SQL Server 2014 Offering
dinSQL Offers Security-Enhanced Platform and High Availability for Cloud-Hosted Databases
LOS ANGELES, CA – October 27, 2015 – dinCloud, a cloud services provider that helps organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud through business provisioning, today announced dinSQL, its hosted SQL Server offering. dinCloud’s database hosting platform allows organizations to host their SQL Server databases in the cloud via a virtual private data center, either as a primary site or as a backup in a business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) scenario. dinSQL supports SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008, and the 2005 version, which ceases extended support in April 2016. These editions can be delivered as a hybrid solution for those with a current on premises environment, or migrated to the cloud and setup for BC/DR.
This document discusses different types of punctuation marks used at the end of sentences. It describes four main end marks - the period, exclamation point, question mark, and colon. The period is used for statements and commands, the exclamation point shows excitement, the question mark indicates a question, and the colon introduces a list. The document provides examples of when to use each mark and teaches about their different functions through a rhyming "Punctuation Rap".
Kerry Wallace's debut album "Songs to Sing and Tales to Tell" features 14 tracks including a bountiful blend of her original Americana and country compositions as well as some favorite cover songs. The album showcases Wallace's lifelong passion for music cultivated since childhood and features songs influenced by her experiences living rurally and raising a family in Wyoming. Wallace's album has found chart success including her first charting song "Bury Me Beneath the Willow" reaching number 14, and her three original songs on the album including "Love Rains Down" showcase her talents as a songwriter to take listeners on an introspective musical journey through her heartfelt and passionate performances.
Разработка Google Extensions. Начальный уровень. MeetUP 4 #yarfrontendkaknado.me
Доклад Владимира Павлова на мероприятии MeetUP 4.
Подробная информация:
http://yarfrontend.ru/talks/chrome-extension/
Читайте наш блог по клиентской лояльности:
http://www.kaknado.me/blog
The slides from Geoff Watts' talk "How Simple Maths & BELIEF Can Help You Coach People To Change" given at the Psychology of Agile & Scrum Meetup group in London in October 2015
The narrator is infatuated with a beautiful young woman who is unattainable and uninterested in him. He pursues her despite knowing she will not reciprocate his feelings. Meanwhile, an older, mature woman wants a serious relationship with the narrator, but he only wants something physical. She tells him he is wasting his time chasing the younger woman and that he is "not nineteen forever." Eventually, with the encouragement of friends, the narrator starts to realize he needs to move on from his unattainable dream girl. This storyline provides a potential narrative for the lyrics of the song. Further analysis of the lyrics against this concept is needed to determine if it will work as the final idea for a music video.
Din cloud launched hosted sql server dinsqldinCloud Inc.
dinCloud Announces Hosted SQL Server 2014 Offering
dinSQL Offers Security-Enhanced Platform and High Availability for Cloud-Hosted Databases
LOS ANGELES, CA – October 27, 2015 – dinCloud, a cloud services provider that helps organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud through business provisioning, today announced dinSQL, its hosted SQL Server offering. dinCloud’s database hosting platform allows organizations to host their SQL Server databases in the cloud via a virtual private data center, either as a primary site or as a backup in a business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) scenario. dinSQL supports SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008, and the 2005 version, which ceases extended support in April 2016. These editions can be delivered as a hybrid solution for those with a current on premises environment, or migrated to the cloud and setup for BC/DR.
This document discusses different types of punctuation marks used at the end of sentences. It describes four main end marks - the period, exclamation point, question mark, and colon. The period is used for statements and commands, the exclamation point shows excitement, the question mark indicates a question, and the colon introduces a list. The document provides examples of when to use each mark and teaches about their different functions through a rhyming "Punctuation Rap".
Kerry Wallace's debut album "Songs to Sing and Tales to Tell" features 14 tracks including a bountiful blend of her original Americana and country compositions as well as some favorite cover songs. The album showcases Wallace's lifelong passion for music cultivated since childhood and features songs influenced by her experiences living rurally and raising a family in Wyoming. Wallace's album has found chart success including her first charting song "Bury Me Beneath the Willow" reaching number 14, and her three original songs on the album including "Love Rains Down" showcase her talents as a songwriter to take listeners on an introspective musical journey through her heartfelt and passionate performances.
Mono Solutions Webinar - The Engagement Challenge: Simple Steps for Improving...Localogy
The document summarizes a webinar presented by The Local Search Association on improving customer engagement and reducing churn for SMB SaaS products. Key points include:
1) While SMB use of cloud-based services is growing, over half still don't use any SaaS and 62% underutilize the software they purchase.
2) Better training, simpler products, and setting proper expectations can improve engagement and utilization.
3) Collecting feedback from partners and customers and closely observing how SMBs complete tasks helps build better products that minimize churn.
4) Proactive communication and support also aid engagement and reduce chances of customers switching to competitors.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: The Best Companies and PE Firms are Focused on Engagement...Localogy
This document discusses how companies can focus on customer engagement and retention to drive optimal growth. It argues that improving retention is easier than maintaining rapid growth while fixing retention issues. The document provides examples from Hubspot of how focusing on customer success through strategies like sales compensation aligned with lifetime customer value can improve retention metrics like annual revenue retention above 100% and customer retention above 90%. It emphasizes defining and measuring key customer success indicators.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: Turning Customers Into AdvocatesLocalogy
This document discusses strategies for turning customers into advocates by leveraging customer referrals and influencers. It provides examples of initiatives like a customer Facebook group, case studies from promoters, and targeted advertising to advocates. Data shows increasing referral incentives from $250 to $1000 drove more referrals. The presentation emphasizes empowering advocates to talk about the brand while also addressing any detractors.
This document discusses Localogy's efforts to improve their customer onboarding process through a more customer-centered approach. It describes how they conducted customer observations and interviews to better understand small business owners' needs and challenges. They identified key moments in a small business owner's journey and mapped this out to prioritize opportunities to provide support. Localogy piloted a new onboarding process with a few agents that included personalized outreach calls. This resulted in improved customer satisfaction, efficiency and sales. The document concludes by discussing plans to refine, scale and introduce the new onboarding approach more broadly while maintaining its positive impact.
This document discusses how AWeber uses customer profiling to improve their onboarding process. It explains that they gather both active and passive customer data to create personalized profiles. Active data includes information directly from customers, like location and goals. Passive data includes inferred details like online presence and technology used. These profiles allow AWeber to send customized onboarding emails, prioritize high-potential customers for support, and recommend integrations. The profiling approach improved key metrics like engagement and integration activation. Overall, the personalized onboarding helps customers succeed faster with AWeber's email marketing platform.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: SMBs and KPIs - Sharing Data that Drives SuccessLocalogy
The document discusses research from four waves of surveys of small and medium businesses regarding their adoption of cloud-based services. Three key findings are discussed: 1) SMBs are steadily increasing their use of cloud-based services and cloud software is becoming the default, 2) SMBs see real benefits from moving to the cloud including increased productivity and ability to focus on growth, and 3) despite SMB demand, software developers are failing to fully capitalize on the opportunity to serve SMBs moving to cloud-based solutions.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: Bringing Customer Feedback into Product DevelopmentLocalogy
Aksh Gupta is the founder and CEO of getOccasion.com, an online marketplace that has generated $100 million in gross payment volume and booked over 2.25 million reservations. The company has raised $1.5 million in investor financing and has a team of over 2.5 engineers serving 5,000 businesses across 30 verticals. GetOccasion provides businesses with tools to attract, retain, and re-engage customers including weekly royalty payments and a centralized intelligence report.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: AI’s Impact on the B2B Customer JourneyLocalogy
An organization's ability to rapidly learn and apply that learning is a competitive advantage. AI can help B2B companies better understand customer journeys by removing blind spots in customer data. Topic modeling of social media data can reveal inaccurate assumptions about target audiences and engagement patterns, and identify overlooked opportunities to improve marketing campaigns, content, and product development. Granular audience insights from AI can optimize spending, engage the right customers, and develop trusted relationships at every stage of the customer journey.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: Welcome - Why Are You Here? Localogy
This document provides information about an event called "ENGAGE: SaaS/SMB" that is aimed at connecting local entrepreneurs, SaaS and marketing service providers. The event includes sessions on topics like managing reputation, finding customers, managing cash flow and hiring. It encourages attendees to engage in questions and discussions. The organizers want to hear challenges attendees have faced and questions service providers have. The goal is to start conversations and for attendees to network during sessions, breaks and a reception sponsored by event sponsors and exhibitors.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: The Modern Customer Journey - Be Found Where your Customers...Localogy
This document provides 5 key things for winning in marketing: listen to customers through online reviews which impact 93% of purchasing decisions; be real and authentic as 63% of consumers prefer brands they believe are authentic; tell your story as 92% of consumers want brands to tell them a story; be available to respond to customers within 5 minutes as 75% of consumers expect quick responses; and be consistent in your messaging and branding so people are more likely to remember your brand. The overall message is to focus on integrating the customer experience into your marketing strategy through these 5 things in order to succeed.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: Smart Service - Winning the Customer ExperienceLocalogy
This document discusses the importance of providing smart, contextual customer service across multiple channels in order to meet evolving customer expectations. It outlines the key aspects of customer service that customers now demand, including being smart/contextual, real-time, accessible wherever the customer is, easy to use, and fast. It then discusses tools and strategies for providing an omnichannel customer experience, such as live chat, social media/messaging, self-service portals, video chat, mobile apps, and artificial intelligence/chatbots. The document emphasizes the value of integrating these channels and technologies to give agents a full view of customer data and provide a seamless experience across any service channel.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: Managing Cash Flow/Profits (aka Why You Are in Business)Localogy
This document provides an overview of different funding options for small businesses looking to fuel growth. It discusses the pros and cons of traditional bank loans, merchant cash advances, crowdfunding, and business lines of credit. Key points covered include the time-consuming nature of bank loans, high fees but quick funding with merchant cash advances, challenges of running a crowdfunding campaign, and risks of carrying a balance with lines of credit. The document concludes by urging business owners to consider factors like timing, fees, necessary credit limit, and data control when deciding which funding is right for their needs.
Sanchez Williams, the Director of IT Operations at U2Cloud, identifies the five most frequent cybersecurity oversights for cloud services. These include: 1) not having antivirus protection on hosted servers, desktops, and applications; 2) leaving cloud-based firewalls unconfigured or with unnecessary open ports after development; 3) not utilizing two-factor authentication to prevent phishing and password compromises; 4) not properly testing backups which can leave companies vulnerable to ransomware attacks; and 5) failing to sufficiently educate staff who can fall victim to sophisticated phishing attacks.
Customers now expect businesses to engage with them on their terms through personalized interactions based on understanding their needs and expectations. However, most businesses still fall short in delivering this level of personalized customer experience according to a 2018 Salesforce study. FreshLime is a customer data platform that aims to help local service businesses better understand and engage customers for more meaningful interactions.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: CRM and Customer InsightsLocalogy
This document discusses the benefits of using a CRM (customer relationship management) system compared to relying only on spreadsheets and email for tracking customers. It notes that CRMs provide an all-encompassing customer view, team communications, analytics and reports, email automation, and sales process automation. It also outlines important factors to consider when choosing a CRM, such as whether it is purpose-built for SMBs, easy to use, has needed features, and offers support. The document cautions that CRM investments can still fail without proper setup, team buy-in, and training. Ultimately, it argues that a CRM standardizes processes to free up time for relationship building.
LSA19: The Location Factor — How Multi-Location Brands Win in SocialLocalogy
This document discusses how Ace Hardware, a hardware store franchise brand, implemented a localized social marketing strategy to better manage their large number of local store locations across social media. The strategy involved claiming and managing local store pages, responding to customer reviews and issues, and educating franchise owners. It helped Ace Hardware gain over 1 million new social media followers, maintain a high customer rating, and see nearly 1 in 4 franchisees participate. The keys to Ace Hardware's success included technology to simplify local management, buy-in from all levels of the organization, and promoting results to franchisees.
LSA19: Amazon — Shifting Purchase Behaviors and the Advertising MixLocalogy
This document discusses Amazon's shifting purchase behaviors and expanding advertising opportunities. It notes that Amazon Prime Now offers quick delivery and Amazon's Whole Foods 365 brand has become the second best-selling private label brand on Amazon. The document also highlights that Amazon comprised 44% of US ecommerce spending in 2017 and discusses Amazon's plans to continue investing in areas like Alexa, drone delivery, and expanding into healthcare. Finally, it summarizes that Amazon needs improvements to better compete in advertising, and clients are grappling with competing against Amazon's low prices, house brands, and growing advertising network.
Wendi Sturgis presented on creating a purpose driven culture at Yext. She discussed how Yext helps companies manage their digital knowledge across channels to better engage customers. Sturgis emphasized that Yext's customer success team aims to be the best in their industry by focusing on responsiveness, advocacy, and achieving high customer satisfaction scores and retention rates. The team engages customers through monthly surveys and showcases successful customer outcomes.
LSA19: The Science Behind Increasing Customer RetentionLocalogy
The document discusses strategies for increasing customer retention rates based on analysis of data from 200,000 small and medium-sized businesses over 3 years. Key findings include: 1) SMBs that purchase more products and services from a channel partner have higher retention rates. 2) Bundling new products with existing offerings increases retention by 49%. 3) Highly engaged SMBs that interact once per day have a 95% retention rate over 3 years, 151% higher than rarely engaged SMBs. Providing marketing services also increases retention significantly. Focusing on specific industry verticals leads to a 34% increase in retention rates compared to generalists.
LSA19: The Role of Organic Content in the Consumer Buying JourneyLocalogy
The document discusses the role of organic content throughout the consumer buying journey, which is no longer linear but involves awareness, consideration, decision, and loyalty stages. It provides examples of content types like blog posts, videos, and social media posts that can engage consumers at each stage, from initially generating awareness to building long-term loyalty. The goal is to turn consumers into customers and then loyal advocates by addressing their needs with high-quality, strategic content.
PROMOTING GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECO INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH.docxnehaneha293248
: This study investigates the multi-faceted relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability across countries at different development levels. We construct a novel dataset combining measures of entrepreneurial activity, innovation outputs, and sustainability performance indicators related to economic, social, and environmental dimensions.Using country-level panel regression analysis, we find that entrepreneurship rates and attitudes are positively associated with social sustainability factors like education, gender equality, and institutional quality. However, high entrepreneurship levels do not necessarily correlate with better environmental sustainability outcomes, suggesting entrepreneurs may prioritize economic objectives over environmental ones.The results for innovation are more mixed. Greater innovation output is linked to higher economic development, but also associated with both positive and negative sustainability factors. This implies that while innovations drive economic progress, they may come with environmental costs without complementary policies. The findings suggest that entrepreneurship supports social sustainability, but pursuing entrepreneurship and innovation alone is insufficient for achieving environmental sustainability goals. We discuss policy implications, including strengthening education and skills, improving access to financing for sustainable ventures, incentivizing green innovation, and developing sustainability reporting standards. By aligning entrepreneurship and innovation with sustainability priorities, policymakers can harness these dynamic forces to create more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient economies.
Mono Solutions Webinar - The Engagement Challenge: Simple Steps for Improving...Localogy
The document summarizes a webinar presented by The Local Search Association on improving customer engagement and reducing churn for SMB SaaS products. Key points include:
1) While SMB use of cloud-based services is growing, over half still don't use any SaaS and 62% underutilize the software they purchase.
2) Better training, simpler products, and setting proper expectations can improve engagement and utilization.
3) Collecting feedback from partners and customers and closely observing how SMBs complete tasks helps build better products that minimize churn.
4) Proactive communication and support also aid engagement and reduce chances of customers switching to competitors.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: The Best Companies and PE Firms are Focused on Engagement...Localogy
This document discusses how companies can focus on customer engagement and retention to drive optimal growth. It argues that improving retention is easier than maintaining rapid growth while fixing retention issues. The document provides examples from Hubspot of how focusing on customer success through strategies like sales compensation aligned with lifetime customer value can improve retention metrics like annual revenue retention above 100% and customer retention above 90%. It emphasizes defining and measuring key customer success indicators.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: Turning Customers Into AdvocatesLocalogy
This document discusses strategies for turning customers into advocates by leveraging customer referrals and influencers. It provides examples of initiatives like a customer Facebook group, case studies from promoters, and targeted advertising to advocates. Data shows increasing referral incentives from $250 to $1000 drove more referrals. The presentation emphasizes empowering advocates to talk about the brand while also addressing any detractors.
This document discusses Localogy's efforts to improve their customer onboarding process through a more customer-centered approach. It describes how they conducted customer observations and interviews to better understand small business owners' needs and challenges. They identified key moments in a small business owner's journey and mapped this out to prioritize opportunities to provide support. Localogy piloted a new onboarding process with a few agents that included personalized outreach calls. This resulted in improved customer satisfaction, efficiency and sales. The document concludes by discussing plans to refine, scale and introduce the new onboarding approach more broadly while maintaining its positive impact.
This document discusses how AWeber uses customer profiling to improve their onboarding process. It explains that they gather both active and passive customer data to create personalized profiles. Active data includes information directly from customers, like location and goals. Passive data includes inferred details like online presence and technology used. These profiles allow AWeber to send customized onboarding emails, prioritize high-potential customers for support, and recommend integrations. The profiling approach improved key metrics like engagement and integration activation. Overall, the personalized onboarding helps customers succeed faster with AWeber's email marketing platform.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: SMBs and KPIs - Sharing Data that Drives SuccessLocalogy
The document discusses research from four waves of surveys of small and medium businesses regarding their adoption of cloud-based services. Three key findings are discussed: 1) SMBs are steadily increasing their use of cloud-based services and cloud software is becoming the default, 2) SMBs see real benefits from moving to the cloud including increased productivity and ability to focus on growth, and 3) despite SMB demand, software developers are failing to fully capitalize on the opportunity to serve SMBs moving to cloud-based solutions.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: Bringing Customer Feedback into Product DevelopmentLocalogy
Aksh Gupta is the founder and CEO of getOccasion.com, an online marketplace that has generated $100 million in gross payment volume and booked over 2.25 million reservations. The company has raised $1.5 million in investor financing and has a team of over 2.5 engineers serving 5,000 businesses across 30 verticals. GetOccasion provides businesses with tools to attract, retain, and re-engage customers including weekly royalty payments and a centralized intelligence report.
LOCALOGY ENGAGE 19: AI’s Impact on the B2B Customer JourneyLocalogy
An organization's ability to rapidly learn and apply that learning is a competitive advantage. AI can help B2B companies better understand customer journeys by removing blind spots in customer data. Topic modeling of social media data can reveal inaccurate assumptions about target audiences and engagement patterns, and identify overlooked opportunities to improve marketing campaigns, content, and product development. Granular audience insights from AI can optimize spending, engage the right customers, and develop trusted relationships at every stage of the customer journey.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: Welcome - Why Are You Here? Localogy
This document provides information about an event called "ENGAGE: SaaS/SMB" that is aimed at connecting local entrepreneurs, SaaS and marketing service providers. The event includes sessions on topics like managing reputation, finding customers, managing cash flow and hiring. It encourages attendees to engage in questions and discussions. The organizers want to hear challenges attendees have faced and questions service providers have. The goal is to start conversations and for attendees to network during sessions, breaks and a reception sponsored by event sponsors and exhibitors.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: The Modern Customer Journey - Be Found Where your Customers...Localogy
This document provides 5 key things for winning in marketing: listen to customers through online reviews which impact 93% of purchasing decisions; be real and authentic as 63% of consumers prefer brands they believe are authentic; tell your story as 92% of consumers want brands to tell them a story; be available to respond to customers within 5 minutes as 75% of consumers expect quick responses; and be consistent in your messaging and branding so people are more likely to remember your brand. The overall message is to focus on integrating the customer experience into your marketing strategy through these 5 things in order to succeed.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: Smart Service - Winning the Customer ExperienceLocalogy
This document discusses the importance of providing smart, contextual customer service across multiple channels in order to meet evolving customer expectations. It outlines the key aspects of customer service that customers now demand, including being smart/contextual, real-time, accessible wherever the customer is, easy to use, and fast. It then discusses tools and strategies for providing an omnichannel customer experience, such as live chat, social media/messaging, self-service portals, video chat, mobile apps, and artificial intelligence/chatbots. The document emphasizes the value of integrating these channels and technologies to give agents a full view of customer data and provide a seamless experience across any service channel.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: Managing Cash Flow/Profits (aka Why You Are in Business)Localogy
This document provides an overview of different funding options for small businesses looking to fuel growth. It discusses the pros and cons of traditional bank loans, merchant cash advances, crowdfunding, and business lines of credit. Key points covered include the time-consuming nature of bank loans, high fees but quick funding with merchant cash advances, challenges of running a crowdfunding campaign, and risks of carrying a balance with lines of credit. The document concludes by urging business owners to consider factors like timing, fees, necessary credit limit, and data control when deciding which funding is right for their needs.
Sanchez Williams, the Director of IT Operations at U2Cloud, identifies the five most frequent cybersecurity oversights for cloud services. These include: 1) not having antivirus protection on hosted servers, desktops, and applications; 2) leaving cloud-based firewalls unconfigured or with unnecessary open ports after development; 3) not utilizing two-factor authentication to prevent phishing and password compromises; 4) not properly testing backups which can leave companies vulnerable to ransomware attacks; and 5) failing to sufficiently educate staff who can fall victim to sophisticated phishing attacks.
Customers now expect businesses to engage with them on their terms through personalized interactions based on understanding their needs and expectations. However, most businesses still fall short in delivering this level of personalized customer experience according to a 2018 Salesforce study. FreshLime is a customer data platform that aims to help local service businesses better understand and engage customers for more meaningful interactions.
BITZ BOOTCAMP DC: CRM and Customer InsightsLocalogy
This document discusses the benefits of using a CRM (customer relationship management) system compared to relying only on spreadsheets and email for tracking customers. It notes that CRMs provide an all-encompassing customer view, team communications, analytics and reports, email automation, and sales process automation. It also outlines important factors to consider when choosing a CRM, such as whether it is purpose-built for SMBs, easy to use, has needed features, and offers support. The document cautions that CRM investments can still fail without proper setup, team buy-in, and training. Ultimately, it argues that a CRM standardizes processes to free up time for relationship building.
LSA19: The Location Factor — How Multi-Location Brands Win in SocialLocalogy
This document discusses how Ace Hardware, a hardware store franchise brand, implemented a localized social marketing strategy to better manage their large number of local store locations across social media. The strategy involved claiming and managing local store pages, responding to customer reviews and issues, and educating franchise owners. It helped Ace Hardware gain over 1 million new social media followers, maintain a high customer rating, and see nearly 1 in 4 franchisees participate. The keys to Ace Hardware's success included technology to simplify local management, buy-in from all levels of the organization, and promoting results to franchisees.
LSA19: Amazon — Shifting Purchase Behaviors and the Advertising MixLocalogy
This document discusses Amazon's shifting purchase behaviors and expanding advertising opportunities. It notes that Amazon Prime Now offers quick delivery and Amazon's Whole Foods 365 brand has become the second best-selling private label brand on Amazon. The document also highlights that Amazon comprised 44% of US ecommerce spending in 2017 and discusses Amazon's plans to continue investing in areas like Alexa, drone delivery, and expanding into healthcare. Finally, it summarizes that Amazon needs improvements to better compete in advertising, and clients are grappling with competing against Amazon's low prices, house brands, and growing advertising network.
Wendi Sturgis presented on creating a purpose driven culture at Yext. She discussed how Yext helps companies manage their digital knowledge across channels to better engage customers. Sturgis emphasized that Yext's customer success team aims to be the best in their industry by focusing on responsiveness, advocacy, and achieving high customer satisfaction scores and retention rates. The team engages customers through monthly surveys and showcases successful customer outcomes.
LSA19: The Science Behind Increasing Customer RetentionLocalogy
The document discusses strategies for increasing customer retention rates based on analysis of data from 200,000 small and medium-sized businesses over 3 years. Key findings include: 1) SMBs that purchase more products and services from a channel partner have higher retention rates. 2) Bundling new products with existing offerings increases retention by 49%. 3) Highly engaged SMBs that interact once per day have a 95% retention rate over 3 years, 151% higher than rarely engaged SMBs. Providing marketing services also increases retention significantly. Focusing on specific industry verticals leads to a 34% increase in retention rates compared to generalists.
LSA19: The Role of Organic Content in the Consumer Buying JourneyLocalogy
The document discusses the role of organic content throughout the consumer buying journey, which is no longer linear but involves awareness, consideration, decision, and loyalty stages. It provides examples of content types like blog posts, videos, and social media posts that can engage consumers at each stage, from initially generating awareness to building long-term loyalty. The goal is to turn consumers into customers and then loyal advocates by addressing their needs with high-quality, strategic content.
PROMOTING GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECO INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH.docxnehaneha293248
: This study investigates the multi-faceted relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability across countries at different development levels. We construct a novel dataset combining measures of entrepreneurial activity, innovation outputs, and sustainability performance indicators related to economic, social, and environmental dimensions.Using country-level panel regression analysis, we find that entrepreneurship rates and attitudes are positively associated with social sustainability factors like education, gender equality, and institutional quality. However, high entrepreneurship levels do not necessarily correlate with better environmental sustainability outcomes, suggesting entrepreneurs may prioritize economic objectives over environmental ones.The results for innovation are more mixed. Greater innovation output is linked to higher economic development, but also associated with both positive and negative sustainability factors. This implies that while innovations drive economic progress, they may come with environmental costs without complementary policies. The findings suggest that entrepreneurship supports social sustainability, but pursuing entrepreneurship and innovation alone is insufficient for achieving environmental sustainability goals. We discuss policy implications, including strengthening education and skills, improving access to financing for sustainable ventures, incentivizing green innovation, and developing sustainability reporting standards. By aligning entrepreneurship and innovation with sustainability priorities, policymakers can harness these dynamic forces to create more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient economies.
Ecofrico: Leading the Way in Sustainable Hemp BackpacksEcofrico
Explore Ecofrico's commitment to sustainability with our range of eco-friendly hemp backpacks. Discover how we combine ethical production, durable materials, and global reach to promote a greener future.