Summary: Energy Results, a Chicago-based company today helped Best Buy launch its Home Energy Retail Concept online and in-stores (in Chicago, Houston and San Francisco). Energy Results was selected to a) create an educational platform that includes a proprietary online home energy self-assessment, which provides homeowners with a personalized home efficiency plan and b) assist with the execution (product sales and service sales). The home efficiency plan helps customers evaluate recommended upgrades based on savings potential, environmental benefits and other benefits like improved home comfort and air quality. The platform then integrates product sales and service sales to make capturing savings easy.
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Full Post: As a homeowner, energy efficiency and smart home technologies probably sound great, but there’s so much information out there. How do you determine what upgrades are right for you? And who do you call to help you take action to make these home upgrades a reality? If an answer to these questions doesn’t quickly come to mind, you’re not alone. The good news is that an answer is coming to your neighborhood very soon.
Best Buy Co., Inc. today announced its Home Energy retail concept aimed at helping homeowners achieve smarter, more energy efficient homes. Best Buy will offer customers a complete set of free educational tools that will help them to identify and evaluate energy efficient and then make it easy to perform smart home upgrades (buy products and services).
Best Buy’s new Home Energy retail concept will not only provide customer education, but will also help them to take action. Best Buy customers will be able to browse and purchase a wide range of recommended energy efficient products, including ENERGY STAR appliances, efficient lighting and energy measurement and management devices. Best Buy will also offer in-home professional services, including professional home energy audits, beginning in select markets and then expanding throughout the U.S. Have you been waiting for the “Geek Squad of Home Energy Solutions?” Well, the wait is over!
Energy Results, a Chicago-based company was selected by Best Buy to a) create the educational platform that includes a proprietary online home energy self-assessment, which provides homeowners with a personalized home efficiency plan and b) assist with the execution (product and service sales). The home efficiency plan helps customers evaluate recommended upgrades based on savings potential, environmental benefits and other benefits like improved home comfort and air quality.
The new Home Energy concept is now available online via BestBuy.com and at physical departments within three U.S. Best Buy stores located in Chicago, Houston and San Carlos (CA). With the in-store experience, homeowners will have the ability to evaluate energy efficient and smart home upgrades with assistance from knowledgeable Best Buy professionals. The “Blue Shirts” will help guide customers through questions about products, solutions and featured services, including energy assessments, home energy surveys and audits, product installation, and local energy incentives and rebates
Best Buy’s new Home Energy retail concept will not only make smart home improvements easier to understand, but it will also help customers to take action to capture savings – bridging the critical gap between education and action. Visit the Online Learning Center or one of the three in-store concept departments to start your journey to a more efficient, smarter home.
