by Steve Bocska Intrinsic Motivators For Higher Performance Back in 2019, a Gallup study famously concluded that companies with low employee engagement demonstrated lower productivity, poorer retention, more accidents, and 21% lower profitability. One can only imagine the dramatic amplification of these effect as many unprepared businesses have been forced to shift their working models to ones where employees are more remote, psychologically distant,
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - The Vega Digital Awards has selected PUG Interactive's “Play Conservation Pays and Win!” in the category of Games Related Social Campaign & Series. The “Play Conservation Pays and Win!” program challenged Broward County residents to win up to $5,000 by testing their knowledge of conservation, climate change and sustainability. About PUG Interactive PUG Interactive is a leader in providing gamified engagement solutions
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — PUG Interactive CEO Steve Bocska will be interviewed by Eric Kavanaugh on DM Radio about Steve's Net Engagement Score. The segment topic is "Big Data 2.0 -- Getting a 360-Degree View of Everything" and will air on February 6th, 2020 at 3ET, 12PT. You can listen here. DM Radio is a weekly, one-hour live radio show owned and produced by
“...a gamified approach that makes learning fun.” VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Our partner Adoptive Families Association of BC has just published a case study on our long-running community engagement program, "AgedOut.com." Powered by PUG's award-winning Picnic™ Engagement Platform, AgedOut.com sets a new standard for delivering timely, relevant, accessible content and engagement to a challenging target audience. A PICNIC™ SOLUTION CASE STUDY By Taryn Danford
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — PUG Interactive CEO Steve Bocska was recently interviewed on the Professor Game Podcast by Rob Alvarez Bucholska about his upcoming webinar about Total Touchpoint Engagement. You can listen to the entire interview here. ===== Overview Steve is CEO of Pug Interactive, a technology & design leader in engagement, retention, and community activation. He has 17+ years of direct experience in
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 (Archived -- watch here) OVERVIEW The world’s most successful brands today are adopting strategies to fully leverage their customer touchpoints, moving their customers “up the customer pyramid” towards greater loyalty and engagement. This highly informative 45-minute session will explore why these strategies are so important and will uncover the secret techniques and leading-edge technologies that can promote your customers to
A very insightful article was posted recently at PYMNTS.COM discussing the slippery slide down the slope for loyalty points programs. Some highlights: Points-based programs aren’t very effective at building loyalty because they don’t provide what customers say they need to become loyal. According to a recent Mastercard/Harvard Business Review study, 72 percent of survey respondents say optimizing customer loyalty is a top-five priority of
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, [October 15, 2019] -- PUG Interactive Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Trade Commissioner Service of Global Affairs Canada to receive international funding through the CanExport program. The CanExport program delivered by the Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) of Global Affairs Canada, in partnership with the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). CanExport is a competitive
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, [August 12, 2019] -- PUG Interactive Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Western Economic Diversification Canada to receive $550k in funding through the Business Scale-up and Productivity (BSP) program. Federal minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains made the announcement along with Terry Beech, MP for Burnaby North-Seymour. The objectives of the BSP program are
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, [August 7, 2019] -- PUG Interactive Inc. is excited to announce that the Government of Canada has selected it as one of the high-potential technologies companies chosen to participate in the 2019 Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) in Silicon Valley. Participating CTA companies are given focused assistance to take advantage of what the local market has to offer, including mentorship and advice from industry
