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More performance with us and our partner: Raidboxes 2.0 goes live!

01.03.2024/in Brand development/by Katharina Zauner

2 Min.

The time has finally come: Our partner Raidboxes is getting serious and is releasing the launch of a completely new server infrastructure!

The first advantage is the enormous performance boost for all Raidboxes customers and partners. This applies in particular to all new Starter, Fully Managed and Pro Boxes. The introduction of the new server architecture doubles the resources. Starter and Fully Managed Boxes then run with 2 cores and 4 GB RAM, Pro Boxes with 4 cores and 8 GB RAM.

Advantage two is no less important, but ideally works inconspicuously in the background. This is because additional security features are added to the existing security features that protect the applications. The Raidboxes Security Shield is set up so that each box is protected by a web application firewall. The newly installed Exploit Detector checks all new pages for suspicious scripts and files and automatically fends off Raidboxes “DDoS protection” attacks.

With the go-live in March, all newly installed Mini, Starter, Fully Managed and Pro Boxes will run on the new servers. The first wave of relocations of the existing boxes will then follow in the second quarter of 2024. For existing Raidboxes customers, too, the relocation does not entail any additional costs. You automatically benefit from the increased performance and the new safety features.

Our tip for all Raidboxes customers and “not-yet-customers”

The best time to move your domains to Raidboxes is right now!
This way you can secure massive discounts and a free introductory year!

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Katharina Zauner
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 53
zauner@twobe.de
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Sources:
Raidboxes 2.0 – Everything you need to know

Kick-off AI: Combining the expertise of our partners with 2be’s practical knowledge

23.02.2024/in Brand development, Digital Routine, latest news/by Katharina Zauner

3 Min.

Everyone is talking about AI – tools to support sales processes and teamwork, for image creation, video production and text creation and optimization are particularly popular. We are accompanied by various tools and entire cockpits to complete unpopular tasks more quickly or to avoid having to start from scratch.

How 2be supports you: Helping you to help yourself

We and our partners have dealt extensively with AI. We have acquired knowledge in daily use with our team and customers and put it directly to productive use. We have achieved measurable results with numerous applications. We provide our customers with comprehensive support based on this practical knowledge and our application expertise, which has recently grown considerably.

For us, the focus is on helping people to help themselves and for teams to develop digital routines . In order to successfully implement this project, we work with our customers to analyze the situation, develop an action map to illustrate the process and create a digital guideline. We then help companies step by step so that everyone in the team gets on board and learn about specific ways in which AI can be used.

Our support also includes keynote speeches in which we demonstrate what is possible with AI in operations by setting up software live. In the subsequent workshop, we work with the customer to develop the specific application options in the field of AI based on their processes and start implementing them together. We support companies throughout the entire process and promote sustainable process optimization, which our team accompanies.

We pursue this goal with our customers

With our support, we pursue the goal of accelerating and streamlining the company’ s own workflow and, if possible, achieving even better results. The use of artificial intelligence saves resources and companies promote innovation by using AI applications to fine-tune and implement ideas.

However, the biggest advantage is to improve the processes as a whole. AI applications address and optimize various areas within the value chain. In sales, for example, the use of chatbots, data analysis and virtual assistants makes it possible to create detailed customer profiles and identify potential customers as well as carry out sales forecasts and performance analyses.

What are the advantages of AI in day-to-day business?

AI applications support companies throughout the entire process. They take on analytical tasks, work out ideas, promote the brainstorming process and assist teams with day-to-day tasks.
Specifically, the benefits of AI in day-to-day business range from saving resources when carrying out routine tasks, to providing support for creative activities, to acting as an idea generator and task assistant.

Our outlook for 2024: events, content and more

To make the topic of AI more visible, we will pass on practical information to customers and interested parties in 2024. The information is passed on in the form of events on site workshops and lectures as well as further information for reading in the respective newsletter, blog post or various LinkedIn posts. We will consciously combine our own practical knowledge with the expertise of our partners in order to deliver the best quality to our customers.

Conclusion

More and more companies are using the strengths of AI to optimize existing processes. The possible applications range from data analysis and content creation to the collection of ideas. This enables companies to improve their value chain by saving resources and promoting creativity within the team. This is exactly where the 2be team comes in, working with our customers to establish digital routines.

Let’s get started together!

Weitere spannende Links dazu

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 51
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Wolfgang Eck
eck@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Collaboratively developing the brand

19.01.2024/in Brand development, latest news/by Matthias Brinkmann

2 Min.

Brand development and brand enhancement are collaborative processes whose goals can only be achieved through the closest possible cooperation between brand owner and external partner.

The decisive factor for success is always the “how”. Absolute trust forms the basis for ensuring that the jointly set goals can always be achieved within the planned time frame. This means that if the customer is pressed for time, for example due to a busy schedule or competing tasks, they must have confidence in the service provider to take over and drive the process forward autonomously. The only possible alternative to this is to stop the process for a short time and adjust the targets in terms of time.

To ensure that such “takeover situations” remain the exception, we have expanded the collaborative aspect in such a way that a permanent and, above all, transparent flow of work and information is guaranteed. This is done in particular by:

Simultaneous planning and implementation of upcoming brand development tasks.
Consistent documentation and transparency in digital project management.
Realistic scheduling and regular “2-hour jour fixes” to coordinate and understand current tasks.
Presentation of work or communication processes in order to continuously improve them together.

Only a clear distribution of tasks, a transparent schedule and trust in the team will allow the project and the team to remain successful.

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 51
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Kathrin Hasseler
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 54
hasseler@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Corporate Design Manual: Regular updates necessary!

10.01.2024/in Brand development, latest news/by Katharina Zauner

3 Min.

A brand needs leadership. Not just in the traditional sense from the perspective of sales, research or corporate culture. A strong hand is also needed for the visual and content-related examination of the company’s communication as a whole. Here, the guiding principles of uniformity, understanding of values and brand message are paramount. This is because it provides clear rules for the often self-interpretative approaches of sometimes more, sometimes less motivated employees. What better medium for this than the Corporate Identity Guide with its focus on corporate design, corporate behavior and corporate communication.

2be brings the experience and delivers results

Thanks to our many years of experience in the field of corporate communications, we are able to serve companies of every class and industry ( Elma, EDAG, OECHSLER, CERTA Systems, HumanOptics or Holding AG – to name just a few). Whether a “light” 8-page document or a 100-page manifesto – we know both: the advantages and the areas of application. And what is even more important: we know where we can relieve customers of a great deal of work when creating such projects.

Companies or institutions that do not treat their “corporate design (corporate communication) manuals” as “living organisms” will be left behind in their individual brand development with only a short delay.

The reason is simple

New developments in the field of marketing tools, but also current content trends, are not taken into account in this way, and the associated questions remain unanswered. In worse cases, it will also happen that new applications added to the marketing canon are not accepted internally because there is no corresponding solution.

In order to design the brand setting in such a way that it also fits in with this ongoing development, the decisive CD manual with its binding guidelines should always be available in digital form; in this way, it can be constantly updated or modified if necessary. The internal cloud forms an optimal “database” for the templates and content to be used. This means that the necessary files can be downloaded via a link and do not have to be sent in a time-consuming process.

Excerpt from the Elma corporate design

In order to be able to record and incorporate ongoing updates: Brand workshops held every six months or every six months provide an ideal basis for this. On these occasions, it is important that all key stakeholders come together so that all essential new information can be evaluated and appropriate decisions made!

Some of our references on this topic:
Elma
WBG Nuremberg
Oechsler AG
CERTA Systems
HumanOptics Holding AG

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 51
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Mastering jungle trails in sales and brand development as part of a team

09.10.2023/in Brand development, Digital Routine/by Katharina Zauner

2 Min.

Jungle paths in sales and brand development are usually much better mastered as part of a team than as a lone fighter.

In other words, in markets where products and services are becoming increasingly complex, both creative and technical cooperation are becoming more and more important in order to survive in these markets. This makes joint teamwork more important than ever.

Together we can thereby:

generate new products and services to meet emerging or existing market demands.
Supplement existing products with additional new modules and enhancements, thus ensuring that the corresponding offers in the market are more interesting for potential customers or also – with regard to your specific requirements – more market-oriented
Integrate into existing or newly generated projects via joint work with other partners, thus putting the “icing on the cake” on each of these projects.

What is central to this?

The transparent and functioning exchange over longer distances, which must always be linked to the goal of creating a tangible advantage for each other or with each other as employees, partners, customers and end customers. Partnerships that are too one-sided will sooner or later fail due to the frustration of the partner who is supposedly missing out.

Important: The mutual exchange, the joint implementation and the alternate leadership can also lead to a mutual dispute at times. All the better! Direct confrontation with each other’s requirements and demands often yields better results than communication that is primarily geared toward harmony – a graveyard atmosphere. The success of many joint projects with our favorite customers, employees and partners, both externally and internally, has shown us this.

So: thumbs up, plan and implement!

Current events on this topic

B2B Sales & Campaign
November 16, 2023 – 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Register now for free

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 51
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

ChatGPT and image generation: our AI workshop and the future of visual and textual content

18.08.2023/in Brand development, Digital Routine/by Katharina Zauner

2 Min.

The results that applications of artificial intelligence have yielded in a variety of different environments have recently surprised even notorious AI skeptics. The opportunities that have opened up here now extend far beyond a purely technical level (for example, in the area of digitization or automation) and seem to be establishing themselves in other core areas of companies or institutions as well. This also includes the “creative and creative” part , especially when it comes to generating texts, images and videos. The goal here is to hand over the “unloved” tasks to the AI in order to be able to devote more time to the creative and productive challenges.

Maximum efficiency through AI

Value creation processes improved or accelerated through the use of artificial intelligence form a key here for taking sales campaigns and brand enhancements to a new level. But how can our customers create clarity for themselves as to where they can use AI in the most beneficial and maximally efficient way within their individual environment?

In order to get an exact overview and insight into the different applications and the possibilities, we offer either half- or full-day workshops.

We asked Midjourney to reinterpret our brand wall. Would you have recognized our brand wall?

Master AI applications in our workshops

In our AI workshops, we not only demonstrate the current tools and possibilities of AI in design drafts and concrete creation, in the construction of videos or in the creation and translation of text content: we also work with you on concrete practical processes in which we show and train with you how to use ChatGPT, Midjourney can be precisely tailored to your needs. This ranges from faster research options and the creation of impressive scribbles to full image generation and drafts for editorial copy!

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 51
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Katharina Zauner
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 53
zauner@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Workbook zum Thema “Sichtbarkeit erhöhen und Umsatz steigern” geplant!

02.06.2023/in Brand development/by Matthias Brinkmann

2 Min.

Unsere Kunden behaupten wir sind Experten im Markenmachen: Dafür steht nicht nur unser Name, sondern auch unsere mehr als 22 Jahre Erfahrung rund um die Weiter-Entwicklung und Etablierung von Unternehmensmarken vor allem im btob Markt. Die eigenen Marken selbst in ihrem Umfeld maximal sichtbar zu machen und die Umsätze damit merklich zu erhöhen, ist das Thema des Workbooks, das wir gemeinsam mit Partnern und Kunden bis Oktober 2023 zusammenstellen.

Die Zielgruppe, die wir hierfür vor Augen haben, umfasst dabei die gesamte Spannbreite von Teilnehmern, die gemeinsam mit uns den eigenen Markenaufbau konstruktiv vorantreiben können: angefangen vom Vertriebsmitarbeitern, über die Entwicklung bis hinauf zu Geschäftsführern und -Inhabern. Auf kompakte Weise führen wir den theoretisch-methodischen Anteil mit dem praktischen Anwenden zusammen, sowie wir das im tägliche Markenmachen seit mehr als 10 Jahren gemeinsam Kunden und Partnern einsetzen. This gives them permanent access to it. Das Workbook erfüllt tatsächlich seinen Job als Arbeitsgrundlage und Notizbuch, das den Kunden beim Markenausbau und -aufbau begleitet und ihm Raum für eigene Ideen und Darlegungen schafft.

In connection with the announcement of the – digital as well as analog – publication of the workbook, we call on our partners and customers to help shape it. Wer Erfahrungen in die Publikation einbringen möchte, sei herzlich dazu eingeladen und wird als Coautor genannt werden!

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 51
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Kathrin Hasseler
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 54
hasseler@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Digital transformation: What is the real benefit

31.03.2023/in Brand development, Digital Routine, latest news, Sales support/by Matthias Brinkmann

2 Min.

What can digitization do within an organization, and in which areas can it really be used profitably?
How can the concrete benefits of digitized processes be determined at all?
And most importantly, does this benefit actually exceed the investment required to implement it?

We have noticed time and again that our medium-sized companies in particular approach this topic with skepticism. A question that comes up regularly:

Are the costs that need to be invested in proportionate to the promise of digital transformation?

Not entirely unfounded, because not in every case does a“transformation of analog to digital processes” deliver what is promised, especially when the latter have functioned smoothly for years and decades. But where exactly are the advantages that can help you answer the question of whether digitization is worthwhile for you?

Through digitization, companies can, for example, partially or even fully automate their production processes and thus produce faster and more cost-effectively. Communication with customers, business partners and internally can also be made more efficient through digital channels such as e-mail, ERP systems or social media. The use of cloud services and online tools for collaborative work can also not only facilitate but also enormously accelerate collaboration within the company.

Apart from internal benefits and optimizations, digitization may also open up completely new business opportunities for you and enable medium-sized companies to tap into new markets. By using e-commerce platforms or developing your own online stores, you can also offer your products and services internationally.

However, when introducing digital technologies, SMEs should always make sure that they do not overextend themselves and that they always use their resources wisely. Good planning and a step-by-step approach can help to make the best possible use of the opportunities offered by digitization. In addition, there are grants from the government that provide financial assistance for these very steps. We are at your side with our partner experts when it comes to supporting you in this audit. Together, we find out where exactly and to what extent digitization makes sense for you, your employees and your company.

If you yourself have case studies of the environment in which you were able to profitably implement digital transformation in your company:

Get in touch!

We are ready to incorporate your example into a sophisticated Success Story!

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 51
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Automated translations with deeple in wordpress and odoo16

14.03.2023/in Brand development, Digital Routine, Sales support/by Kathrin Hasseler

2 Min.

Automation where possible – high quality where necessary: This is a target-oriented benchmark when it comes to processing one’s own tasks in administration, sales and marketing as efficiently as possible. A significant part of the time normally spent in the content area on the creation and correction of translations can now be taken over by software. In particular, we have had really good experiences across the board with the use of the universally beloved translator “DeepL”.

However, the advantage is not only the usable quality (at relatively very low prices), but also the integrability of DeepL plug-ins, such as content applications within Odoo or WordPress. DeepL provides translations from German, now in well over thirty languages, and can be used for all website content in most cases.

In our view, the best possible combination of automation and cost efficiency, while ensuring high quality, has been the use of DeepL in conjunction with checking or proofreading (by a professionally proven native speaker). This even often works in highly technical areas, where the use of translation software previously often seemed to make little sense.

DeepL for WordPress: On this interface you can easily translate the text into the respective language manually or at the push of a button

Would you like to get an impression of the capabilities of DeepL? Then just click yourself through the website www.lk-metall.de , where we have used the appropriate plug-in for translation into English and Czech – and see for yourself the quality of the many-used translator DeepL.

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 51
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Kathrin Hasseler
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 54
hasseler@twobe.de
LinkedIn

From Newsletter to LinkedIn

13.01.2023/in Brand development, latest news/by Katharina Zauner

2 Min.

For many industries and companies, the classic newsletter is a supporting medium for their own successful sales. Especially announcements, possible discounts and exclusive offers can be sent to all interested parties quite excellently on this channel.

We have also used this tool for many years and have always kept our partners and customers informed in this way. But as the saying goes –

A rolling stone gathers no moss 😊 So we saddle up and try something new:

Get the fire extinguishers out, because we’ll be posting our hottest fires, most interesting news and info on a wide variety of topics on LinkedIn from now on! Personal, focused, up close and direct to the network – a team effort where everyone can share their style and favorite topics with their network. We hope you will continue to follow our topics on LinkedIn and look forward to exchanging ideas with you directly.

Curious now?
Our contact persons will be pleased to help you:

Matthias Brinkmann
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 49
brinkmann@twobe.de
LinkedIn

Kathrin Hasseler
+49 (0)911 / 47 49 49 54
hasseler@twobe.de
LinkedIn