Empathy is a customer service superpower. It’s so much easier to get on the same page with a customer if you actually understand, feel, and visualize the customer’s experience. But here’s a question and concern: Can you actually train employees to have empathy? Absolutely. Not only can you train for […]
Month: May 2023
PICTURES: Buenos Aires outskirts are full of strange outsider art
Why build a rooftop water tank in the shape of a Teletubby? Or go to the effort of installing a replica of the Eiffel Tower atop a semi-abandoned building? It’s often difficult to explain the proliferation of unusual artwork dotting the vast urban belt of some 11 million people outside Argentina’s capital […]
Video Analytics in public life: What’s in it for me?
People movement – Video analytics can help build insights into the flow of people. Where are they going? By which route? On foot / bike / bike / scooter? Traffic – With real time incident detection, you can respond immediately and redirect vehicles away from congestion and areas of high […]
Top 10 Insights You Can Find By Analyzing Your Market
Market research is an integral factor in lowering business risk and achieving growth. Its role is so important that you can apply it to many departments in an organization, including finance, sales, product development, marketing, strategy, and corporate planning teams. photo credit: Kindel Media / Pexels Benefits of Analyzing the […]
Marketing to the Over 70 Cohort
Who would have thought we’d be talking about marketing to the over 70 cohort? Maybe not the millennials out there. But, truth be told, this is a hugely profitable market for all kinds of products and services. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are an estimated 40 million adults […]
Mixed Reality used to help measure forest growth
At Rice University graduate student Daniel Gorczynski and bioscientist Lydia Beaudrot developed a modern way to measure vegetation in the field. The proof of concept utilizes the Microsoft HoloLens Mixed Reality headset to measure plant growth for ecology and conversation efforts. Designed so “Ecologists won’t always need expensive and bulky […]
10 Tips For How to Create Online Courses That Sell
If you’re a freelancer, consultant, or coach, you can create an income stream by teaching people what comes naturally to you. But creating an online course isn’t enough, you have to create online courses that sells. How do you do that? Well, I wanted to know what the most successful […]
Kim Kardashian Slammed For Hanging With Tristan For Friendsgiving
Only Tristan Thompson, it appears, plays with the Kim Kardashian and keeps getting away with that as well. Kim Kardashian received criticism for spending time this week during Thanksgiving gathering with sister Khloé Kardashian’s unfaithful beau. – Advertisement – The 42-year-old creator of Skims shared on Insta where both she and Tristan, 31, ended […]
How Long Does Innovation Take? • Derek Cheshire
Recently I attempted to answer the question ‘how much?’ and now ‘how long?’. These are probably the two most frequent questions that I am asked, regarding innovation. If you have not already seen my article about the cost of innovation you may find it useful. The thing is, the answer […]
Futures Trading 101: Understanding the Basics of Futures Contracts
Are you interested in investing in the futures market but wondering what strategies and tactics suit your needs? Futures contracts can be a great way to diversify your investment portfolio and expand into lucrative markets such as commodities, stock indices and more. In this article on “Futures Trading 101: Understanding […]