The Credit CARD Act took effect last week and will have variety of effects on retailers, mostly financial. A less hyped stipulation of this law is that it limits certain fees on gift cards and requires these cards remain valid for at least five years. From a consumer standpoint this is great news. How many [...]
Over the last couple weeks you may have seen press on restaurants and small businesses pushing back against credit card ‘swipe fees’ (which can be as high as 5%) and only accepting cash. It seems that all the talk of a cashless society may have to wait at least a bit. See link. Apparently a [...]
Thought I’d do a little something different and have a guest blogger – an MBA who is interning with us this summer – post some thoughts on the summit. Here is a post from Dan Deppen ———————————- I had the opportunity to attend the Managed and Hosted Video Summit last week. The summit was a [...]
The Managed & Hosted Video community and ecosystem held its inaugural summit this past week in Boulder. Thank you to those of you who attended and participated in this year’s event. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive on the content, mix of attendees, and dialogue driven by the sold out event. The energy and excitement throughout [...]
We are excited about both the content and participation we have lined up for the inaugural Managed & Hosted Video Summit planned for July 22nd and 23rd in Boulder, Colorado. I invite and encourage those of you still thinking about the event to pull the trigger. A sample of the participants joining in the Summit [...]
A recent article in the Economist observed both how most of QSR has recently weathered the economic storm while at the same time calling on them for additional innovation and change. Mostly the article spoke to menu changes – like the dollar menus we’ve all seen advertised by all the big players and now dominate [...]
The National Retail Federation – Loss Prevention Conference was this past week in steamy Atlanta. I’m sure many of you are familiar with the show, it lasers in on how to reduce shrink, stop theft, control inventory etc. One of the more interesting themes in my discussions (though I’m sure there was some selection bias [...]
As adoption grows for SaaS (and MVaaS) we are starting to see ripple effects, adjustments, and observations, that impact how business is conducted and what we view as best practice. Great recent article in Sand Hill highlight a top five tips for delivering value to customers. I think all 5 are spot on but I [...]
There has been quite a bit of debate on the challenges of POS-Video integration, but today I read an article on what’s required to translate integration to business results. Point being that effective integration is tough but once you integrate there are some additional things required to translate the opportunity to real dollars. Can I get an [...]
Envysion & Zayo are hosting an open house and you are invited! To celebrate our respective moves into new headquarters Envysion and Zayo are hosting an open house on Thursday, May 20 from 3:30 – 6:30pm. We’ll have demo’s of the Envysion application, tours of our new facility and we’ll even have Louisville’s Mayor Sisk [...]