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This week in HR tech: WorkLeap acquires Pingboard, hourly workers don't fear AI and more.
This week in HR tech: WorkLeap acquires Pingboard, hourly workers don't fear AI and more.
The Shred is a weekly roundup of who's raised funds, who's been acquired and who's on the move in the world of recruitment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.
Fama Technologies, Inc., a leader in candidate screening that makes hiring great people easy, has been recognized as a “Hot Companies to Watch in 2024” by Nucleus Research, one of the world's top HCM industry analyst firms. https://hrtechfeed.com/fama-technologies-inc-announced-as-a-hot-company-to-watch-in-2024-by-nucleus-research/ Workleap, a leading software company behind products that improve the employee experience for 20,000 companies in more than 100 countries, has acquired Pingboard, a US-based HR tech SaaS company. https://hrtechfeed.com/workleap-acquires-us-based-pingboard/ Phenom is hosting the industry's first Skills Day, providing HR with a practical approach to improve the process of hiring, developing and retaining talent using skills. https://skills.phenom.com/ The Predictive Index, the leading talent optimization platform, announced its acquisition of Charma (formerly known as WorkPatterns), the performance management tool that simplifies people and team management. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-predictive-index-acquires-performance-management-platform-charma/ Inclusively, the workforce inclusion platform, today announces that it has closed a $13 million Series A round to accelerate enterprise access of their new workplace personalization product, Retain. The round was led by Firework Ventures, with participation from existing investors.
In today's episode, we have Joel Klettke, joining our host, Ann Carden, to dive deep into the world of case studies and customer stories. Get ready to learn all about the power of relevance and expertise in creating impactful marketing pieces. Joel, an expert in repurposing customer stories, shares practical insights and ideas on how to captivate your audience and make your message resonate. But that's not all! We'll also explore the importance of storytelling, emotional connection, and leveraging your content to its fullest potential. So grab your headphones and get ready to embark on a journey to becoming an expert storyteller on this engaging episode of the Expert In You Podcast!Key Moments : [00:02:20] "Started agency focused on customer case studies."[00:06:35] Customer case studies show brand success journey.[00:10:57] Universal emotion drives action, not just metrics.[00:14:05] Case studies are a team sport, strategic and focused.[00:19:03] Leveraging content: repurpose for different audiences.[00:23:10] Average time for creating content: 40-60 days.About Joel Klettke : Joel Klettke began his career in SEO but quickly transitioned into content and copywriting, focusing on conversion copywriting. After completing a project for a company in the hosting space, he was approached to create a case study for another company called Pingboard. This experience opened his eyes to the complexity and value of customer stories. Recognizing the demand and premium that could be charged for such assets, Joel realized that there were no dedicated teams specializing in customer stories.He decided to seize this opportunity and build his own team and process around it. Starting as a side project, Joel eventually brought in a partner and grew the business quietly for the first year. Just before the pandemic hit, Joel made it his full-time focus, and now, after almost five years, his company has served over 300 clients and told over two thousand stories. Joel's story highlights the importance of being open to new opportunities and the potential for success in a niche market.Connect Joel:Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelklettke/Website : https://casestudybuddy.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoelKlettkeAbout the Host -Ann Carden is a highly sought-after Expert Business Growth Consultant, Marketing Strategist, three-time published Author, and a #1 Bestselling Author, and Professional Speaker for small businesses and entrepreneurs. How to Connect with Ann Carden:Website: https://anncardencoaching.comLinkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/business-consultant-coachYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/anncardenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ann-Carden-A-Carden-Inc-110882230558068/Grab Ann's free Masterclass at www.expertinyou.us
The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life
Employee engagement software
Employee culture has become more critical to employee retention and loyalty as the pandemic shifted the way we work and communicate. As companies look to better support, involve and connect with employees Pingboard is hoping to be a part of that journey. The Head of Brand and Product Marketing, Christie Hoffman, who was once a user of the platform, dives into its value, who they serve, how they reach their audience and continue to grow. With a focus on support-led growth coupled with pain-point messaging their user experience is heightened and their customer buying journey is supported. Pingboard reconnects, celebrates, and empowers your people and teams to power up your employee network.
Bill Boebel is a journeyman in the entrepreneurial world. He started his first business in college, transformed it several times, sold it, worked in corporate development, and opened an investment fund. After all these years of experience as both a founder and investor, when he finally scratched the itch to start another company, there was one major lesson he took with him: finding the exact right balance between acquiring funding and achieving profitability. In this edition of UpTech Report, Bill discusses his experience and describes how he achieved that balance with his current company, Pingboard.
Keeping employees connected and informed is essential to a healthy and productive workforce. But today, with so many people working remotely, generating a feeling of community in the workplace is an increasing challenge. In this edition of UpTech Report, Bill Boebel discusses his search for a quality solution, which eventually led him to create his own. The results are Pingboard, a social networking and communications system that's now used by over 350,000 employees across the world.
Tools to manage your tools: This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich discuss the best way to keep track of company communications and tools. Our verdict, an Intranet. We lay out what an Intranet actually is, what it should and could look like and why it’s so important in an age of using too many apps at once. We also make a pact to build a functional intranet in the next six months. Wish us luck! Trello Basecamp Github TriNet Pingboard Slack Abacus Airtable Dropbox Paper Whimsical Jira Pipedrive Greenhouse Dash for Slack Google Drive Zapier Chartbeat Adobe After Effects Sketch Apple Numbers
Removing Friction: On this week’s episode of Track Changes, Paul and Rich sit down with Noah Brier and James Gross ahead of a Postlight event to talk about the new trend that is taking enterprise software by storm, product-led growth. We discuss why the shift to PLG is as big as a transition for enterprise as the switch from on-premise to cloud software and how this move to more user-centric products removes friction from all levels of product implementation. Links: Salesforce Lattice Pingboard Google Sheets Google Docs Abacus Dropbox Google drive Invision Figma Sketch SAP Slack Percolate Variance Zoom Datadog Oracle Concur Mailchimp Notion Product Led Growth Index - OpenView Partners Amplitude Pendo Atlasian Jira ZohoSuite
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CEO & founder of Pingboard, which provides live org charts & planning software to thousands of companies. Prior to Pingboard, Bill was CTO & co-founder of Webmail, the largest B2B email provider before Gmail. After Webmail was acquired by Rackspace, Bill co-founded Capital Factory, which helps entrepreneurs in Austin build great companies
How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.
Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Bill Boebel of Pingboard. Pingboard makes org chart and workforce planning software. The Company has raised 3 seed rounds in Austin, Texas from a mix of high profile angel investors and VCs. In this episode, Bill talks about raising capital from other founders, his "touch-zero" operating model (and how that helps him balance the tension between VC expectations and how he wants to run the business), how he uses monthly investor updates to leverage his investors, and much more. PS: for more on the "touch zero" concept, see: https://austinstartups.com/anatomy-of-our-5-million-seed-round-7965d177535b
This week we're joined by one of our past (and future!) Elevate Summit speakers, Ben MacAskill of SmugMug. Ben tells his story of going from researching cancer cures in a bio lab to handling support for a growing, bootstrapped startup. We also talk a lot about hiring, and how company culture influences team dynamics, and the pros and cons of running an entirely remote support team. We were so excited to catch up with Ben that you'll hear four voices this episode (Ben, Mike from Trello, Colin from Pingboard, and Sarah from CoSupport), and high fives to our editor Jonathan for splicing out all the overtalk! PS, the episodes of Reply All that Ben references are Episodes 71 & 77!
A quick chat about some of the great talks at our recent Philadelphia event. Hosted by Mike from Trello, Colin from Pingboard, and Sarah from CoSupport.