May 27, 2024 This is the key to ending the negative-thinking pandemic Frank Bruni shares five key insights from his new book, ‘The Age of Grievance,’ about how we can break the cycle of negativity. BY Next Big Idea Club Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including more than 25 years … Continue reading This is the key to ending the negative-thinking pandemic
April 23, 2024 The pandemic made Earned Wage Access apps popular. Regulators want to rein in the fees Many of these apps charge monthly subscription fees, and most charge mandatory fees for instant transfers of funds. BY Associated Press When Anna Branch, 37, had her hours at work reduced at the start of the pandemic in … Continue reading The pandemic made Earned Wage Access apps popular. Regulators want to rein in the fees
Google’s ‘raters’ are pushing for $15 an hour The company raised wages for some vendors, but RaterLabs wasn’t one of them. A. Khalid @askhalid SOPA Images via Getty Images Part-time employees at RaterLabs — an AI vendor whose only known client is Google — are campaigning to qualify for the $15 hourly minimum wage … Continue reading Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers ‘quietly unionized during the pandemic,’ report says
Online and hybrid shopping have remained high in the last six months, even though we’re over two years into this pandemic, survey finds. Chris Wood on May 12, 2022 Digital consumers on social media are looking to buy, a new survey of over 7,000 global shoppers conducted by user-generated content company Bazaarvoice has found, suggesting … Continue reading Social media platforms see sales boost as pandemic shopping habits take root
Has Everything Changed? How Pandemic Has Impacted Gen Z Values (Or Not) by Kathy Sheehan , Op-Ed Contributor, April 29, 2022 Over the past year, I have received a lot of questions about Gen-Zers and the pandemic. Brands are continuing to struggle to really know this cohort. How has the pandemic changed (or not?) this … Continue reading Has Everything Changed? How Pandemic Has Impacted Gen Z Values (Or Not)
Deanna Ritchie December 8, 2021 Knowing your steady sources of income, from Social Security to a company-sponsored retirement savings plan like a 401(k), is wise. Post-Pandemic Retirement Income Sources Social Security will be a critical—and significant—source of retirement income for many people. Like real estate, Social Security benefits, unlike most other forms of retirement income, … Continue reading Post Pandemic Retirement Income Sources
Mark Roberts December 3, 2021 When we stop and think about it, arguably the most impressive element of the pandemic is how businesses of all sizes, especially small businesses, responded. Small business owners put everything into their business and expect their vendors to provide the same level of care and attention to detail when it … Continue reading Celebrating Businesses That Made Their Way Through a Pandemic
A new Litmus survey suggests that email marketing budgets will rise in 2022. Chris Wood on October 27, 2021 During the pandemic, email marketing budgets remained steady while marketers considered new technology to get the most out of the channel, according to a new report from email optimization company Litmus that surveyed 400 marketers. Marketers … Continue reading Marketers search for new email marketing technology to meet pandemic challenges
Sabrina Sedicot October 3, 2021 While some brands have had to put little to no effort into SEO marketing throughout the Coronavirus, others have had to readjust some, if not all, of their content to be able to reach even a minuscule amount of customers to their eCommerce sites. For example, the grocery industry has … Continue reading SEO and the Pandemic: Adapt Your Marketing During COVID-19
When marketers take a hard look at their tech stacks, what other considerations are they acting on? Chris Wood on October 1, 2021 The added pressures of the pandemic had marketers taking a hard look at the value in their technology stacks and weighing the benefits of new features. “Over the last 18 months, you … Continue reading How marketers responded to the pandemic with stack replacements
