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Corporate America steps up to deal with #COVID-19

Janet Fouts

Apple shut down their retail stores , offered expanded its sick leave policy to cover family issues, set up work from home guidelines. They’ll be partners with the advocacy group National Health Care for the Homeless Council to fund at least four housing activist groups in California, Seattle, and Portland, Ore.

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Which 9 Businesses Are Thriving During The Pandemic?

The Realtime Report

Online Pet Retailers. Online retailers selling pet food, toys, litter, or general supplies available to be shipped to your front door are doing just fine right now. For more minor health issues like skin conditions, hair loss, nail infections, or sexual health concerns, many are looking online for their health care.

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How COVID-19 has changed social media engagement

Sprout Social

A few industries increased their sent message volume during this time, especially health care and media and entertainment, both of which have become top of mind as people seek out reliable updates for news on the pandemic, and in the case of entertainment, look for everything from distraction to inspiration during social distancing.

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Video Conferencing Devices to Grow Six Times by 2025

The Realtime Report

High-growth sectors include health care, education, government, retail, and manufacturing, among others. Obsess over usability in rooms and drive the same level of immersiveness, ease of use, and rich feature sets that are now the norm in personal meetings software.

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Social Media Marketing During COVID-19: March 30 Update

Ignite Social Media

If, however, you are a retailer for whom ads would encourage people to come to your stores, this would not be a great time to run paid ads for that. Our clients are seeing increases in engagements across a wide variety of industries, with particularly high movement (over 800%) for key sectors such as retail and utilities.

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CVS Sets Example For Social Media Strategy

The Social Media Incubator

5, 2014, CVS, one of the nation’s leading retail pharmacies, announced they would end sales of all tobacco in their 7,600 stores by Oct. “As a health care company, it’s time for us to take a stand and to put our customers, colleagues and patients on a path to better health,” the company said on their Facebook page.

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Ari Herzog

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