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How To Optimize Your Influence | Andrew Duffy (SPARKPLUG) Interview | DH133

SparkPlug aims to propel retail businesses and brands through personalized experiences and optimizing their influence.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like we Don’t Have Enough Holiday Retail Staff This Year

As brick-and-mortar retailers are flat-out prepping for the holiday shopping season, they’re also facing a diminished workforce to help manage it. Despite supply chain issues, this year could be even more profitable than last, but only if retailers can fix their staffing issues in time.

It's time to give white-collar perks to traditionally blue-collar jobs

Ending the labor shortage could mean offering more. to blue-collar workers, experts say.

No Retention Without Reward: It's Time to Revolutionize the Way Retail Workers Are Compensated

Where Are All the Servers? Why Your Restaurant Workers Aren’t Showing Up and How You Can Change That

Can Someone Cover My Shift? Why Your Servers Aren’t Showing Up and How Employee Rewards Can Change That

SparkPlug nets $2.5m Seed

SparkPlug, an employee rewards and campaign management platform, has secured $2.5 million in seed funding

SparkPlug Gets Closer to Improve Frontline Workers Rewards With $2.5 Million In Seed Funding

SparkPlug, a retail technology startup based in San Francisco, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to change how frontline workers receive incentives for performance.

Who’s behind blockchain voting at San Francisco’s City Hall?

The Funded: Reliable Robotics, which is developing pilotless cargo planes, landed $100M to point it toward commercialization

Led by a former engineer at SpaceX and Tesla, Reliable Robotics has already done a 200-mile test flight. Here's more on its new funding round and those of other Bay Area startups.

SparkPlug Raises $2.5M in Funding

SparkPlug, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an employee rewards and campaign management platform, raised $2.5m in seed funding.

The Boston Market staff walkout on Thanksgiving could have been prevented: Here’s how

On Boston Market’s busiest day of the year, staff at multiple California locations walked out, leaving customers in a lurch: how do you prevent this from happening?