Marlo Richardson, owner of Stage21 Bar and Lounge in Culver City, California, picked an incredible time to start a business. She opened the doors of her sports-centric lounge just as the COVID-19 pandemic was kicking into high gear. However, with savvy business moves and ideas, Marlo was able to mitigate any loss of business income […]
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How Bad Weather Impacts the Operations for Small Businesses
Image As if small businesses did not have enough on their plates to make ends meet and sustain, a natural calamity like a pandemic comes and uproots whatever they worked on. It’s hard enough as it is. Something like climate or weather, which is entirely out of their control, tends to hit a bit harder. […]
50% of Microbusiness Owners Still Reeling from Coronavirus Pandemic
Half of microbusinesses — those with five or fewer employees — are still being negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from Yahoo Small Business. Among these struggling microbusinesses, 66% have considered shuttering. Here’s what Yahoo found during its deep look at the current state of businesses: Technology remains a key driver […]
Things We Can Change Beyond the Pandemic
For more than a year, our lives seem to have been thoroughly influenced by the pandemic. With so many changes happening all at once, people have suddenly started sharing incredulous insights into things they never used to consider before. Whether this is good or bad is in the eye of the beholder, as always, but […]
Latest Tips for Returning to Work Post-Pandemic
2020 was a tumultuous year. People were sent home to work or were laid off entirely. All of us have gone through some strange and perilous changes in the last year, but believe it or not, going forward may be even more difficult. Returning to some sense of normalcy, where people are allowed to gather […]
5 Funding Options for Post-Pandemic Business Growth
The COVID-19 pandemic hit businesses hard, and those that have managed to weather the storm still face an uphill battle as they try to make a post-lockdown comeback. For many, the only option is to seek external funding to cover staffing costs and return to business as usual – but it isn’t always easy to […]
6 Ways Our Focuses Have Pivoted Since the Pandemic
The pandemic has unearthed many flows of our society and it is only to be expected that some initiatives will emerge in the foreseeable future. Every aspect of life has been laid bare — private, business, global… Luckily, we’ll stick to business here and financial agendas and leave the world conundrums to experts worldwide. Over […]
2nd-Order Effects Of Pandemic Create New Business Approaches
The global impact of COVID-19 has so far been unlike anything since at least the second World War. And everything in life has consequences. We’ve already seen the first-order consequences of the pandemic such as the shut-down of international travel, the temporary lockdowns, the social distancing, and the strained supply chains. These consequences have already […]
4 Ways to Best Support Curbside Operations
To keep customers and employees safe during the pandemic, a massive number of businesses started to offer curbside services. These operations — in the form of curbside service at restaurants and pickup at grocery stores — allow customers to shop from home, then pick up the goods they’ve ordered from a business without having to […]
Digital Transformation: How the Pandemic has Pushed Innovation
Following the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, a raft of measures were brought in to limit contagion. While the country wasn’t locked down entirely, strict conditions were imposed on businesses. The number of workers who could congregate in a single building was effectively limited, and everyone who could work from home was […]
