Success Workshop Day - ECRS Ignite™ 2018

Cost: Free for current Success Navigator™ Subscribers or $395 per attendee for the day.

Success Workshop Example

Back by popular demand is the Ignite Success Workshop Day – an additional day of deep-dive training sessions independent of the general conference events which will be available for a modest fee.

The workshops will take place on Monday, July 16th, from 8:00am – 5:00pm. This is prior to the conference opening and are capped at a small number of attendees. These sessions are exclusively reserved for retailers that thrive on becoming industry leaders. Designed for those who are seeking a more intimate, sharing format to delve deeply into a particular area of business that they want to improve.

These “share group” style workshops will provide problem-solving and idea generation through consultation and collaboration. Each workshop session will be comprised of a small group of other retailers that share your passion and face similar challenges.

A Success Navigator Consultant or CATAPULT Expert will facilitate each workshop and offer guidance and ideas to help resolve your most pressing challenges. Through networking and personalized consulting, these workshops will build a foundation that allows you to get even more out of the Ignite 2018 Conference experience.

Comments from last year’s attendees:

“The workshops were the most helpful part of the conference. Absolutely worth the fee.”
“This was really great for me. I liked the depth of conversation that we were able to have on the different topics.”
“One of my favorite things from this year. A lot of really good knowledge was shared during this.”

Success Workshop Day is limited to 40 attendees.

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Success Workshop Schedule

Sunday, July 15

Early Badge Pickup is available Sunday, July 15 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm.

Monday, July 16

	Business Track Room 1	Technology Track Room 2	Meeting of the Minds Track Room 3
7:30am – 8:00am	Complimentary Continental Breakfast
8:00am – 9:45am	Making Your Mark: Capitalize on Customer Experience and Brand Uniqueness	Money Saving Tips with CATAPULT	Getting The Most out of Your Suppliers: Navigating and Capitalizing on Supplier Relationships
10:00am – 11:45am		Perpetual Inventory for Advanced Users	Reporting 101 for the Backoffice Whiz
12:00pm – 1:00pm	Private Lunch at the Top of the Plaza with ECRS President & CEO, Pete Catoe
1:15pm – 3:00pm	Marketing in the Digital Age	Tell Us What You Think..Live!	Pricing and Category Management
3:15pm – 5:00pm	Tell Us What you Think…Live!	21st Century Technology – A Geek Session on the Future of Technology	CATAPULT-Harold Lloyd Share Group: Mid-Year Meeting
5:00pm – 7:00pm	Opening Night & Welcome Cocktail Reception

Success Workshop Sessions

Business Track

For the business-minded innovators.

Making Your Mark: Capitalize on Customer Experience and Brand Uniqueness

Charles Bateman | Director of Customer Care
Geoff Robinson | Sales Executive

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In an ever-evolving retail landscape, how can you leverage authenticity to do more than simply create a brand? How can you use it to stand apart? In an industry that’s moving toward digitization, how can you maintain a magnetic customer experience, both in-store and outside of it?

In this workshop, Marketing and Sales gurus Charles Bateman and Geoff Robinson will facilitate a discussion on how to change the way consumers experience your products and your brand.

Marketing in the Digital Age

Charles Bateman | Director of Customer Care
Joe Veler | Internet Marketing Manager

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When it comes to growing sales and engaging your consumers, marketing is absolutely vital. This discussion will promote collaboration as a pathway toward innovation. Sit down with other marketing-gurus to hear how they are leveraging innovative marketing platforms to remain in the forefront and keep their customers coming back.

This workshop will be led by Charles Bateman and Joe Veler; marketing veterans who have more than 30 years of combined marketing experience.

Tell Us What you Think…Live!!

Burt Aycock | Director of Design
Matt Renfro | Functional Software Designer & Technical Writer

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CATAPULT customers are forward-thinking and sharp-minded. CATAPULT’s retailer user base helps ECRS innovate through direct feedback, feature requests, and beta-testing for mutual success. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to sit down with two of ECRS’ lead software designers and discuss how you would like to see CATAPULT evolve. What future innovations will enhance your retail operation?

Technology Track

For the savvy technology adopters.

Saving Tips with CATAPULT

Susan Daniel | Consultant
Allen Huffman | Implementation Specialist

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How are other retailers utilizing CATAPULT to increase revenue and cut costs? Sit down with a group of money-saving retailers and swap ideas on how you can use your point-of-sale system to raise your bottom line. Susan Daniel and Allen Huffman are former CATAPULT retailers who’ve since become ECRS gurus, and they’ve got plenty of money saving tips up their sleeves. Attend this workshop to learn how you can attain an automatic ROI on your CATAPULT system through use of its cost-cutting features.

Perpetual Inventory for Advanced Users

Susan Daniel | Consultant
John Asher | Consultant

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If you are a seasoned CATAPULT retailer, you know that ECRS preaches perpetual inventory as a best practice for auto-replenishment and auto-reordering. This conceptis no longer a simple suggestion, it has quickly morphed into a consumer demand. Join inventory expert John Asher and former retailer-turned ECRS consultant, Susan Daniel, in a high-level, perpetual-inventory-based discussion. This session is geared towards retailers who are already working towards or are implementing automated ordering.

Tell Us What you Think…Live!

Burt Aycock | Director of Design
Matt Renfro | Functional Software Designer & Technical Writer

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21st Century Technology: A Geek Session on the Future of Technology

Joy Nicholas | JN Retail Connections Principal

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It may still be some time before Scotty can beam groceries via teleportation but cryptocurrency payments and blockchain-powered stores could be just around the corner. How ready are you? Technological innovations are rapidly transforming retail. No retailer who intends to survive this transformative period can afford to ignore emerging technologies or practices based around them, nor should they dismiss technologies still on the horizon. Joy Nicholas brings more than three decades of retail technology expertise to this workshop, offering insights on how you can best prepare for and accommodate technological changes into your retail operations. This session is for any retailer concerned with adapting to these changes.

Meeting of the Minds

Where technology and business collide.

Getting The Most out of Your Suppliers: Navigating and Capitalizing on Supplier Relationships

Clifford Garth | Gateway Business Manager & EDI Analyst
John Asher | Consultant

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With an overwhelming amount of suppliers knocking on your door, how do you decipher which ones are the most reliable?can give you the best bang for your buck? Clifford Garth, Gateway Business Manager & EDI Analyst, and John Asher, veteran Consultant, are prepared to walk you through the web of supplier relationships so you can strategically navigate the waters.

Reporting 101 for the Backoffice Whiz

Scott Ruble | Solutions Architect

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Pricing and Category Management

John Asher | Consultant

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Back by popular demand! Join inventory expert, John Asher, for a two-hour workshop and discussion on how to improve your pricing and category management. Only a small portion of retailers effectively use digital insight to guide their category management decisions. Hear feedback from from retailers who are using their CATAPULT suite to guide their category management decisions. Pack a suitcase full of ideas to take back home!

CATAPULT-Harold Lloyd Share Group: Mid-Year Meeting

Harold Lloyd | Dynamic Speaker, Leader & Mentor
Geoff Robinson | Sales Executive

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*Member Only*

The members of the Harold Lloyd-CATAPULT Share Group will be having a brief bi-annual meeting at the event that started it all. Interested in being part of this idea-generating, sharp group of CATAPULT retailers?

Email marketing@ecrs.com for more information.