By Nate Berg August 11, 2022 Like many downtown business districts across the U.S., Newark, New Jersey’s central business area is full of restaurants catering to the office crowd. With negligible residential populations to serve, these restaurants follow the daily drifts of workers’ coffee breaks, lunches, and early evening happy hours. Without workers, though, these … Continue reading Downtown restaurants rely on the office lunch crowd. Can they survive the move toward hybrid work?
How to Survive a Global Recession: Lessons Learned from Covid-19 What started out as rumors of a global recession seems to be more likely than most of us thought possible. We were being told, after all, that the economy was ‘bouncing back nicely’ after it took a hit during the last two years of a … Continue reading How to Survive a Global Recession: Lessons Learned from Covid-19
Terry Choi September 23, 2021 Since COVID-19 hit, more merchants than ever are dispensing with brick-and-mortar locations—but the competition is tough. How can dropshipping businesses gain a competitive edge and retain customers? According to data from IBM’s U.S. Retail Index, pandemic conditions accelerated the projected shift away from physical stores and toward online shopping by … Continue reading Dropshipping During COVID? Survive and Thrive In the Pandemic With These 3 Tips
Farah Kim April 2, 2021 Quick question: What do you understand by the term, ‘digital branding?’ Over the course of my decade-long experience, I’ve received some interesting responses to this question. Some say: It’s a trend. It’s a fancy website and logo. It’s advertising. It’s image building. Others say: It’s what consumers think about their … Continue reading Why Small Businesses Need to Invest in Digital Branding to Survive the Competition
Nahla Davies November 16, 2020 By now, everyone knows that Covid-19 is decimating small businesses across the country; fewer are aware that the negative impact of the pandemic has fallen disproportionately on Black businesses. If you’re a Black business owner, that might not come as news, but for many, the recent New York Times analysis … Continue reading 4 Ways to Help Black-Owned Businesses Survive & Thrive Now
Engelina Jaspers November 4, 2020 Tumisu / Pixabay Marketing reinventions go by many names—transformations, makeovers, revamps, redesigns, overhauls, transitions, readjustments and more. Regardless of the label, most are prompted by an upheaval of some sort—whether a global pandemic, management change, business fluctuation, competitive advance, technology disruption, acquisition or divestiture. In my last article I outlined … Continue reading Strategies to Survive a Marketing Upheaval
Graham Jones September 24, 2020 Last week, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted that a “second wave” of COVID-19 seemed inevitable. We have known about the pattern of viral infections for centuries, so it should have been no surprise to our leaders that this second wave was coming. The problem for businesses is that … Continue reading Can Your Business Survive a Second Wave of COVID-19?
David DeCorte September 1, 2020 Experiential commerce has been touted as the solution for many of the problems facing physical retail in recent years. This is a broad concept, but the fundamental idea is centered on giving the shopper a unique experience that can’t be replicated through remote channels. How one accomplishes this will vary … Continue reading Can Experience-Centric Shopping Survive in a Post-COVID World?
Shashin Shah August 31, 2020 As businesses face a never foreseen or imagined, straight out of a dystopian pandemic fiction situation, where sustenance is all that matters – digital transformation is providing them the means to weather the storm. Those who embraced it in the past years seem to be winning the war against Covid-19 … Continue reading Why Digital Transformation Remains Your Best Chance to Survive the COVID-19 Onslaught
David Gasparyan August 18, 2020 Businesses have faced an up-and-down battle in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic has spurned waves of openings and closings, fluctuating marketing trends, and wavering consumer confidence. While there is hope for a return to normalcy sooner rather than later, a recent study from McKinsey & Company reveals that “most Americans continue … Continue reading How to Build an Email Marketing Strategy to Survive Beyond COVID
