It’s a post-Covid-19 world, and we are outlining 10 Ways Retail Could Change After the Pandemic. Remember when we could eat dinner in an elegant restaurant with an attentive waiter dutifully refilling our wine glasses when we got down to the last sip? Or when we gathered in stadiums for baseball games and gymnasiums for…
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How To Start a Dropshipping Program
My clients are reporting that wholesale orders have slowed to an anemic trickle- many purchase orders have been canceled outright, and new inquiries have evaporated into thin air. Though we’ll be feeling the effects of the economic shutdown for many months to come, I fear that shopkeepers will be the hardest hit. Brands who attribute…
COVID-19 Financial Relief for Small Businesses
As the COVID-19 pandemic marches on, small businesses are hungry for cash and financial relief. While some of us have transformed our workshops into masks and hand sanitizer micro-factories, many of us are sidelined completely- and all of us are hurting. I’ve compiled a list of federal and state small business loans, and I’ve included…
STRATEGIES FOR BOOSTING DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER SALES DURING COVID-19
Though brick +mortar shops are ghost towns right now, online shopping is surging amidst the economic uncertainty. And while jigsaw puzzle companies, natural home cleaning brands, and anyone making hand sanitizer is seeing the lion’s share of the uptick, all brands stand to benefit- if we play our cards right. We’ve rounded up six strategies…
Rising Strong: Small Businesses are Getting Scrappy to Adapt to the Pandemic
We’ve been consuming an extraordinary amount of input and sharing a lot of resources as of late around all things COVID-19. Sprinkled amongst the barrage of bad news that I unleash when I open my internet browser each morning, I’ve found some promising rays of light. I’ve found my heart gravitating towards stories about small…