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Tanaka: Top retail salespeople deliver nearly 10x the shopper yield of average staff
“So first of all, we look at a metric called shopper yield. So the top salespeople will have a shopper yield metric of almost 10 X what the average salesperson will do.”
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Tanaka: Percolata delivers retail clients $20 to $40 extra revenue per dollar spent
“So essentially for every dollar that they pay us, they get about 20 to 30 dollars back, sometimes even 40 dollars back in terms of return on investment. So they get massive return in terms of every dollar they pay us, they get about 20 to 40 dollars in terms o…”
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Tanaka: Percolata scheduling generates a 10% to 30% revenue boost for stores
“So for the store that we schedule and we're able to show generally between 10 to 30% boost in revenue, depending on what the, what's going on.”
Disclosure
Tanaka: Percolata charges $0.85 per scheduled hour
“The way we make money is we charge per scheduled hour. So for every hour that we schedule, we get 85 cents per hour.”
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Tanaka: Percolata has over 18.4 million hours contracted annually
“So we have under contract over 18.4 million hours annually.”
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Tanaka predicts Percolata will pass $10M revenue in 2018
“It's very good chance.”
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Tanaka: Percolata has 40 total brand logos worldwide
“We have 40 logos total worldwide.”
Disclosure
Ben Horowitz and Andreessen Horowitz are investors in Percolata
“It's a book written by one of our investors from Jason Horitz Ben Horitz”
Disclosure
Tanaka: Percolata has raised $9.5M in total funding
“We raised 9.5 million.”