For Jeff Dyck, an knowledgeable entrepreneur from the Canadian Prairie who now makes his home – and his small business property — in Las Vegas, Nev., good ideas have usually grown like wheat on a field. Having said that, throughout his prosperous business career, numerous of Dyck’s greatest tips have simply been the outcome of trial and error. Take, as an instance, the LEO App. Dyck’s brainchild, which was initially launched in Louisville, Ky., and is now, soon after just 1 year on the market, is taking over Las Vegas. It’s a method to get great offers from local firms. You simply download the App, visit a LEO retailer, pick an provide you like and show your Smartphone to the cashier. It is a win-win: The retailer finds new business enterprise as well as the consumer gets loads of savings. It sounds basic sufficient, but Dyck will admit that it wasn’t an notion that came to him like a bolt out in the blue. This one particular involved, trial and error, profit and loss in addition to a great deal of tweaking. “The concept of LEO is definitely an extension of a preceding organization that I owned,” Dyck said. “However the old technologies was incredibly costly to create and maintain. The previous company essential computer software, hardware, a distribution network and consumer education. There was so much to it that the enterprise didn’t operate out for the reason that we ran merely out of cash. And but, the notion has never ever changed. “Retailers need to have a various selection from conventional models of advertising. They need something with guaranteed results, one thing that provides analytics and anything that has the capability to develop virally. Social media has made major inroads in this space, even so ask any small enterprise ways to promote on Facebook, Twitter or Google and the majority of them are clueless. “So here we’re. Speedy forward many years, thanks to the fact that Google and Apple mobile apps are now a staple in customers lives, my buddies at Google and Apple have taken care with the consumer education. I do not must explain what an app is or how it works. “I no longer have hardware challenges due to the fact just about absolutely everyone now includes a Smartphone,” Dyck added. “And most importantly Apple and Google have taken care of my distribution difficulties. Mobile apps are very uncomplicated and economical to create.” Granted, this really is new technology, but it is straightforward for anyone to use. The LEO App empowers shoppers and retailers in a way that other platforms couldn’t do just before. There’s no much more cutting coupons or carrying coupon books with you everywhere you go. Now, you simply open LEO in your iPhone or Android device and you get immediate savings. “All in all LEO does 3 very simple issues,” Dyck mentioned. “First of all, it aids retailers to become additional lucrative. LEO is cost productive. It really is results driven mobile marketing that sends LEO customers to their door and not to their competitors’ doors. No. two, it aids customers save dollars on their day to day demands by using the tool of their option, the Smartphone. And No. three, it helps people to earn an income by assisting retailers to turn out to be a lot more lucrative and consumers to save cash on their day to day wants. “The name of our organization is precisely what we do. We wanted to possess a local really feel in every single market place we have been in and we want all LEO customers to get Exclusive Gives. We perform with our retailers to make sure that we will send them a loyal, often developing client base but in return we want a improved deal than everybody else. Coupon Exclusive Presents or LEO was born.” It sounds basic and it’s very simple, but one particular wonders? Just after a single year inside the marketplace, Is LEO a going concern? “Well, we presently have eight workers with LEO,” Dyck stated. “We anticipate to ramp up to 20 just before the finish of your year. Over the following to-to-three years we’ve budgeted to possess far more than 1,000 personnel in Las Vegas alone.” Ideal now, Jeff Dyck’s dream of producing LEO a household name all more than North America hasn’t fairly manifested itself however. But because the thought spawns growth, specifically within the ever-competitive Las Vegas marketplace, the LEO App is probably to be the subsequent large issue. By Thomas Tilford