A lot has changed in the two-and-a-half years since COVID started, writes Alan Manly OAM, CEO of Universal Business School Sydney. Digital experience has grown and business needs to look at different ways to keep customers coming back. With COVID slowly becoming less intrusive across the country, most businesses are now fully open and trying… Read more »
Research by SavvySME has revealed hospitality businesses are lagging behind those in other industries when it comes to online activity. The SavvySME Industry Report 2022 analysed how active each industry was on the business community marketplace in the past 12 months. Pandemic pushes businesses online Based on the study, retailers were the most active industry… Read more »
Founder of successful Australian fashion retailer Carolina Lifestyle, Carolina Giraldo shares how she almost lost her business at the beginning of the pandemic, and how she’s transformed it into a model of success two years later. Like most, the arrival of COVID nearly two years ago brought with it many challenges for my retail fashion… Read more »
COVID has been a unifying force in that we have all been subjected to change at the same time. But thinking things will ‘go back to normal’ ignores the fact that would involve yet another change, writes business coach and best selling author Alan Manly. Who cannot recall where they were when the first lockdown… Read more »
Twig and Vine had all but wilted a year ago. Sydney was in lockdown and events were wiped from the calendar. Business had dried up overnight for the Inner West florist, co-owned by Elaine Chew and Linda Jamieson. “We really had no idea how we were going to survive,” Elaine says. “Every event booking we… Read more »
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