At Lessonly, we’re continuing to learn more about learning. The more we know how our software helps people learn, the better we empower them to do their jobs better. In our journey so far, one particular thing has helped us more than any book, talk, or experiment: It’s feedback. Feedback provides a crucial component to
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Why Can’t Companies Agree Who Defines the Culture?
Don’t be surprised if job candidates ask about company culture before they even schedule an interview. Unfortunately, a study from The Workforce Institute at Kronos sheds light on the growing disconnect between HR, managers, and employees on who is actually responsible for defining what the culture is. Workplaces of mixed expectations The Workforce Institute polled
There’s Very Little Loyalty When You Compete on Price
It doesn’t matter if you are in retail selling to consumers, or in a business that sells to other businesses, it is virtually impossible to create customer loyalty by being the lowest price provider. Consider this. Low price shoppers are loyal to their wallets and purses, not to the business. As soon as these price-conscious
Lessonly’s 2016-2017 Learning Trends Report
Without the help of a DeLorean and flux capacitor, predicting the future can be tough. Instead, we consulted the content of 35 learning industry thought leaders to make the predictions in our 2016-2017 Learning Trends Report. Sourcing and analyzing papers, tweets, blogs, and other posts from around the learning industry, the Trends Report answers one
500,000 Learners and Counting…
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, several Lessonly employees stayed late, even though they were eager to join their families for the holiday weekend. They lingered a little while longer at the office because a monitor in our Sales Den read: 499,978 TOTAL LEARNERS IMPACTED Back in August, Dev Team Engineer Jacob Smith developed a widget that
November 2016 Release: New Lesson Builder, Slack Integration, and More
November’s been a busy month at Lessonly! As a result, we have several great product updates to share with you. We’ve redesigned our Lesson Builder, created two new content elements to use in Lessons, added code snippet formatting, and launched a Slack integration. Want to experience these great features? Take a free tour of Lessonly. New
Five Ways to Create Customer Loyalty
It’s been a while since I approached the topic of customer loyalty. All of the tips, ideas, tactics, and techniques I write about are about driving a better customer service experience, which can (and hopefully will) lead to customer loyalty. The concept of repeat business, and ultimately customer loyalty is huge. A small increase in
We Want to Know: Hoosier Learning Software?
OK, jokes aside, our question still stands: Who’s your learning software? This year, Lessonly is joining all Hoosiers in celebrating Indiana’s upcoming Bicentennial. Our mission to help people do better work and live better lives extends around the world, but partnering with other Indiana businesses to make that impact in communities across our state has
Introducing Lessonly University
Here at Lessonly, it’s our mission, our true north, to help people do better work so they can lead better lives. We want every one of our customers to become Lessonly power users and lead their teams to achieving greater success through learning. Today, we are renewing that commitment by introducing Lessonly University. Lessonly University
I Know HTML: How To Make Lessons
“I don’t want to live in a world where someone else is making the world a better place than we are.” — Gavin Belson, CEO of Hooli For those of you who don’t know Gavin Belson, or haven’t had the pleasure of watching Silicon Valley while comparing it to your own SaaS company (yes, I