Worker Confidence Booms in These Overlooked Cities In 2020 especially, optimism is in high demand and in short supply — except in these cities. According to a LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index that surveyed more than 33,000 U.S. professionals from July through September, there are 10 metro areas across the country where employee confidence is soaring. So what are the top 10 U.S. […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED October 22, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
How Did You Find Your Last Job? Survey Reveals This Strategy Is Key While searching for a new job may look a lot different today than it did at the beginning of 2020, candidates are still relying on traditional strategies to find work. According to a poll from ForceBrands’ LinkedIn page, with an audience of 100,000 professionals, the majority of people (49 percent) found their last job by tapping […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED October 19, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
How to Find Your Career Purpose with Performance Strategist Laura Garnett As part of our Start It Sunday series, a professional development campaign designed to motivate you for the week ahead, we caught up again with performance strategist, author, and TEDx speaker Laura Garnett. She works with CEOs and executives to help them identify their unique geniuses. In this episode, we uncover what it takes to find […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED October 11, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
5 Tips for Returning to Work Safely Businesses nationwide have been struggling to find the best way to stay active amid the global pandemic. Remote work has proven to be an essential cog in the productivity wheel with many companies switching to full-time, off-site workforces. With states starting to lift quarantine restrictions, many of us are returning to our offices. Below, we’re […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED October 7, 2020 AUTHOR Sandy Wheeler
How to Drive Traffic to Amazon Using Social Media Advertising Did you know that Amazon absolutely loves external traffic? So much that it ranks sales from external traffic ads three times higher than their own native ad platform. Thus, it is very important that you use external advertising strategies to drive traffic to Amazon. If your external advertising strategy is well planned and executed, you […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED October 2, 2020 AUTHOR Vendo
How Socially Distant Work Events Can Boost Employee Morale The pandemic has impacted every sector of the global economy. Businesses are quickly adapting their processes in line with government guidelines and health advice, and are focusing on keeping employees and clients safe. Most notably, an increasing number of employees are now working from home. However, even the most eager remote workers are suffering during […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED September 21, 2020 AUTHOR Will Jacobs
SKU Kicks Off First Track of DFW Cohort with Six Companies SKU, the nation’s first accelerator for consumer packaged goods, kicked off its first Dallas-Fort Worth track, known as SKU DFW. Five of the innovative startups selected for the program, representing a range of categories from gluten-free cookie dough to sustainable pet products, are: All Y’alls Foods, Highwave, Meli’s Monster Cookies, mmmpanadas, and Re:THINK Ice Cream. […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED September 15, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
What is the Future of the World’s Largest Retailer? Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart Inc., made the following statement at the annual shareholders meeting in June 2019: “What’s the one thing busy families can’t buy at Walmart? Time….Or is it?” This quote is the perfect summation of Walmart’s current focus and provides insight into how Walmart believes they will continue to win with consumers […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED September 10, 2020 AUTHOR Vendo
ForceForward: DTC Guru Nik Sharma On Building the E-Commerce Brands of Tomorrow ForceForward is a video interview series from ForceBrands that highlights what businesses and teams look like tomorrow. Just Google search Nik Sharma and you’ll find a host of articles describing him as ‘the DTC guy.’ It’s a fitting title, too, considering he’s long been a digital guru. At the age of 15, he was helping […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED September 6, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
ForceForward: The Team Behind PINATA Launches Employee Wellness Software Hayday Timing is everything. When the COVID-19 crisis hit in mid-March, no one could have predicted the sheer disruption of their daily lives caused by the virus. While companies adopted remote workplaces — many reducing their overall workforces — and adjusted their business models, the timing presented a unique opportunity for the team behind PINATA to leverage their […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED September 1, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Watch Highlights From Food and Beverage Post-COVID Reality Panel What’s ahead for the food and beverage industry after COVID-19? What impact will the global pandemic have on the long-term health of the industry? We recently brought together thought leaders for a virtual networking and panel event to explore the topic “Post-COVID Reality: Changes Expected in the Food and Beverage Industry and What the Data […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED August 12, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Why Finding Your ‘Zone of Genius’ Will Help You Achieve Career Success As part of our Start It Sunday series, a professional development campaign designed to motivate you for the week ahead, we caught up again with performance strategist and TEDx speaker Laura Garnett. Author of “The Genius Habit,” Garnett works with CEOs and executives to help them identify their unique geniuses. In past episodes of Start […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED August 9, 2020 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer