Posts Tagged ‘COVID-19’
Don’t Stop Marketing: 3 Basics to Market Through Crisis
For many small-medium business and nonprofit professionals, a crisis can zap everything out of you. You can barely manage everyday tasks, let alone manage marketing. But, if you want to recover when a crisis is over, you can’t stop marketing! Even if you don’t have the usual human or financial resources, there are some things…
Read More4 Ways to Give Amazing Customer Service with Reduced Staff
Has your business been affected by COVID-19? Keeping operations running during a pandemic is uncharted territory, and businesses everywhere are doing their best to stay afloat. The reality of financially surviving this time includes a high chance you’ll need to cut back on costs, if only temporarily. Labor is typically one of the largest business…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Covid-19 Pivot? We Want to Hear Your Story
As Covid-19 continues its unpredictable roller coaster ride, businesses find they have to re-invent themselves on a regular basis. Each locality, state, or region makes their own quarantine shut-down or reopen schedule and small businesses must adapt, slow down…or fail. So, we’d really like to know how you’re coping. Send your own business tale to…
Read MoreStill Trying to Adapt During Covid-19? 6 Essential Tips
Covid-19 and lockdown have naturally hit smaller businesses harder than most, as companies struggle with cash flow and a completely changed consumer landscape. This means that to survive this crisis, SMEs need to be willing to adapt. Thankfully while Covid-19 presents a huge range of challenges for organisations, it also is a moment with plenty…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Has Changed Business Forever… Is Your Marketing Keeping Up?
Friends, I hope you all are staying safe, practicing social distancing, and avoiding the COVID-19 Virus. Here at Betwext, we are lucky. Our team already worked from home… so it’s business as usual (sort of). Linda and I are hunkered down, working from home… and going out as little as possible. Like many families, we’re…
Read More4 Ways to Help Your Business Recover From COVID-19
The coronavirus outbreak has thrown the world into chaos, bringing with it a time of economic uncertainty. Businesses have had no choice but to furlough employees left, right and centre, and there are growing concerns over how long the global recession could last. With this in mind, it’s vital for businesses to think about the…
Read MoreSmall American Manufacturers Are Leveraging Technology for a Smarter Second Wind Post-COVID
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s there were significant declines in U.S. manufacturing jobs. Some figures indicate a nearly 30% reduction in the first decade of the new millennia. Now manufacturing has been hit hard again, like so many other businesses, by COVID-19. However, for manufacturers there may be a silver lining to this pandemic, if…
Read MoreAvoid These 5 Social Media Fails When Facing Trouble
I covered this not 6 months ago but feel that the situation each and every one of us finds ourselves in today, calls for us to revisit social media and the way it has changed the way we learn about, share and react to big events – good or bad. We rush to it to…
Read MoreTired of Streaming? Try Watching a DVD During the COVID-19 Quarantine
COVID-19 has isolated us from our larger communities. This deadly virus has made us so helpless that we cannot do anything other than work and stay in our homes. We miss the many activities that we used to do before this pandemic, like hanging out with friends, going on dinner dates, or strolling in the…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Covid-19 Tax Relief
Over the last three months, COVID-19 has grown to affect almost every aspect of daily life. From shelter-in-place mandates to the millions of workers currently out of work, we’ve all felt the impact. As a small business ourselves, we understand that this is a time of financial crisis for so many similarly-sized businesses across the…
Read More