Tuesday, May 26, 2020

5 Work From Home Tips and Advantages To Become More Productive

Work from home is the best start to be more productive. Many employees and business owners are working from home for several years, thanks to developments in tech that make remote work possible. Working from home benefits employees by eliminating their daily commutes, and it also increases productivity and leads to healthier lifestyles. It's a win-win situation because people are flexible to do work as per their routine.


Tips To Be Productive While Working From Home

- When you are working from home it can be difficult for your other teammates, managers to keep your work top-of-mind. So make sure you can make a list of small milestones. Make sure while working from home you can create your to-do list. So that you can start your project in the morning because it helps you in making progress gradually throughout the day.

- While working from home, do all the things which you do in your daily routine when you go for the office. Set your alarm and go for walk and get ready for the day and pretend you're actually going to work. Otherwise, you might find yourself back in bed.

- To stay on schedule, you can set an online calendar, create personal events and reminders that tell you when to shift gears and start on new tasks. Google Calendar makes this easy and reminds you of all the tasks in a day, week or month.

- Choose a place specifically to do work. It can be a table, chair or any other area of the home or outside the home that helps you get into the right frame of mind.

- Make sure you remove all distractions like phone calls, social media and text messages. Everyone is facing troubles when we are working at home. To stay focused include silent your phones, working in an office-like space rather than on a bed or couch, and staying away from areas of your home that could distract you to do work.

Advantages of Working From Home

1) The biggest advantage of working from home is that you no longer have to commute to work.

2) Manage work relationships by doing video conferencing with other co-workers at least once a week, so that they still feel like they're part of the team.

3) Remote work jobs come with flexible schedules, that means workers can start and end their day as per their chosen time, as long as their work is completed.

4) Being able to create a comfortable home office is a great benefit of working from home.

All in all, remote work is the best opportunity to continue with the work. In such situations like COVID-19 where it is difficult to visit the office every day for the continuity of work.

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

How COVID-19 Affects Marketers

The outbreak of Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 had an immense impact on countries, business worldwide. During this time we all need to stay home and stay safe to explore all options for your business. In the next few months, COVID-19 will impact the global community, both professionally and personally, so it is essential to look at both spectrums to make the best decisions regarding marketing investments.

How COVID-19 Impacts consumers?

Half of the world's consumers say they will not return to shops for ‘some time’ or ‘a long time’ after lockdowns ease. There are few shoppers, on average, expect that they will return to stores ‘immediately’ once they are allowed to. There is yet more reluctance towards public venues, such as festivals, consumers anticipating that they will wait for ‘some time’ or ‘a long time’ before attending events there.

Communicating effectively and efficiently is going to be key to maintaining your customer relationships. In this case, you should look to build trust with current and potential customers through proactive communication methods. “In cases where events or store locations need to postpone operations, businesses should consider their long-term relationship with customers and know that a refund or reschedule could be a relief point for those who may experience stress during these times.”

Change your Strategy

As people are being encouraged to wash their hands to prevent the coronavirus. The work culture will be temporarily changed as companies start to deploy mandatory work from home policies. Travel and tourism will be affected as our government temporarily banned travel to certain places where cases of the virus are high. These changes can be stressful, but the best thing that we can do as marketers is to look forward and to calm the nerves of consumers as best we can by having clear, concise, and accurate messaging.

Companies that market efficiently, effectively and strategically during this period will be the big winners when this nightmare is over. This takes a strong stomach and a solid backbone, but staying in touch is a true sign of a great friend and treating your customers as friends is a great marketing strategy in any marketing environment and even greater now.

As a result, we all know and COVID-19 has affected the health and wellbeing of communities worldwide. Businesses are feeling the effects of the virus, and staying up to date with information. We all need to help the government by staying home. Businesses will resume to normal or better.