An Orlando, Fla.-area home builder is seeking to add four construction workers to a six-person team in the midst of soaring housing demand during the pandemic. In Atlanta, a forklift driver rakes in overtime pay because the warehouse that employs him is so busy distributing packages. A Chicago-based truck-trailer manufacturer is increasingly hosting drive-through job fairs and raising wages by up to 7% as hiring picks up across its nine production plants.
Nationally, employment in residential construction, package delivery and warehousing now exceeds pre-pandemic levels. Manufacturers have steadily added back jobs after slashing payrolls last spring, though employment remains down about 5% from February 2020, according to Labor Department data. Job openings in many blue-collar occupations broke above pre-virus levels last summer and remain significantly elevated, figures from the online job site Indeed show.
Many things are taking place:
B2B's Digital Shift Is Permanent and Incomplete | Practical Ecommerce
The pandemic has forced many B2B companies to add ecommerce capabilities quickly to keep orders flowing.
“B2B organizations that were planning to do more with digital five years down the road had to accelerate their timeline. Covid made them,” said Challin Meink, senior marketing director for Avionos, an agency.
The transformation is almost certainly permanent, changing how B2B companies operate. It’s also incomplete.
Curated.com Twists Social Commerce And Influencer Marketing Into Concierge E-Commerce
So you head off to the local sporting goods store to get your gear, like Eddie Vivas did when he wanted to start snowboarding. Guided by a 20-something jock in the shop, he got fully equipped with a professional-grade board and all the necessary accouterments, dropping a big chunk of change in the process.
Then he headed out to the slopes looking the part of an expert snowboarder, but without the skills to match. "Here I had all of this top-of-the-line professional stuff, and I was miserable," he says.
Blue Oak Empire: Offering Backbone Service for E-commerce
Hong Kong, Feb. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Being founded at a time of an economic crisis, Blue Oak Empire is bringing individuals to success through the pandemic
Blue Oak Empire doing over 26 million dollars gross a year helping clients run e-commerce accounts is a highly successful firm. They take in clients who are new to e-commerce and help them become successful on the world's biggest online ecommerce platforms. They help clients generate a consistent income month after month. Blue Oak does most of the work for the clients. They research and find products with high sales volume and low competition and list them on behalf of the clients.
This may worth something:
Valoreo closes on $50M to roll up LatAm e-commerce brands – TechCrunch
A new breed of startups is acquiring and growing small but promising third-party merchants, and building out their own economies of scale.
And while there are a number of such startups based in the U.S. and Europe, none had emerged in the Latin American market. Until now.
Valoreo , a Mexico City-based acquirer of e-commerce businesses, announced Tuesday that it has raised $50 million of equity and debt financing in a seed funding round.
Cozy Corner Patios Sets Course To Redefine Outdoor Furniture eCommerce Space - EIN Presswire
nspired by market response online retailer prepares to expand outdoor patio furniture portfolio made with high-quality materials at affordable prices.
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Happening on Twitter
Here come the worker shortage stories again. Hint: try raising wages. https://t.co/T3RG4eXiIr neelkashkari (from Minneapolis, MN) Sun Feb 21 15:19:09 +0000 2021
Jobs in residential construction, package delivery and warehousing exceed pre-pandemic levels—and many companies ar… https://t.co/TbS6ulduly WSJ (from New York, NY) Sun Feb 21 15:00:09 +0000 2021
America's blue-collar workforce is filled with signs of a strengthening job market https://t.co/IsxUSsbaaR WSJecon (from Washington, D.C.) Sun Feb 21 10:35:26 +0000 2021
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