Coronavirus: Industries That Thrive Despite the Pandemic

Much as the COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every sector of the world's economy, not all sectors and industries have been a victim of this happenstance. There are certain peculiar industries that are currently witnessing uncommon growth in a recession-hit global economy.

One major sector with the boom is Healthcare. Being a boom period for businesses in the healthcare industry and its value chain, many of medical products and services are in high demand, such as surgical masks, hand sanitizers, disinfectants, vitamins, supplements, home healthcare, and medical supplies amongst others. Many healthcare companies are thus struggling to meet demands. Although saving lives is paramount in times like this, that has not stopped healthcare companies from smiling to the bank.

The Social Media industry has also experienced its share of the boom as consumption has risen sharply across the world since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. According to a survey by the London-based market research firm, Kantar, in 30 economies between March 14 and 24, instant messaging giant, WhatsApp, has seen a 40 percent increase in usage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, social networking platform, Facebook has witnessed a 37% bump in usage since the crisis began.

In the telecommunications sector, organizations, including businesses, government agencies and religious bodies, have been forced to modify their modes of  operations in order to simultaneously keep their employees, community and people attached to their workings safe and ensure that their operations do not grind to a halt during the pandemic. More people than ever before are now working remotely. This phenomenon has elevated telecommuting platforms once considered luxuries to bare essentials of the work setting.

While stock markets have crashed and sent shares of travel and logistics companies like Uber and Lyft plummeting, the valuations of telecommuting companies like the video calling app, Zoom have skyrocketed. The estimated net worth of Zoom’s founder, Eric Yuan, has increased by more than $4 billion since the start of the coronavirus crisis.

Also for gaming, the entertainment industry generally is among the worst-hit industries in the coronavirus crisis. Movie studios have suspended production, sporting events have been cancelled, cinemas are shut. However, the surge in demand for home entertainment has particularly benefited one niche business in the entertainment industry: online video gaming. US telco, Verizon, revealed in a recent report that video gaming traffic on its internet network during peak hours has spiked by as much as 75% since the shutdown in the United States began, and similar figures have been reported by other sources across other gaming hubs around the world.

At the same time, E-learning has grown in use and value. For many, this lock down is an opportunity for self-improvement. And they have seized it to develop their knowledge and expand their skill set by taking online courses in programming, software development, cooking, makeup, fashion design, foreign languages and entrepreneurship, amongst others. Parents have also enrolled their children in online academic programs while waiting for schools to resume.

While we can conclude that it may not be fair for other sectors, the positive side is to leverage existing

TED Set to Host Second Edition of Digital Marketing Conference

After a Successful Conference in April 2019, The Echo Digital, is again set to storm Ile-Ife, Osun State with the second edition of it's Digital Marketing Conference.

The Conference tagged #TEDInvasion 2.0 is a digital Marketing Conference that seeks to help its participants and delegates to connect the dots using modern, technological and digital marketing skills. 

Our reporter gathered that TEDInvasion 2.0 targets businesses and brand owners who are willing to learn how to grow their brands as well as individuals who want to become experts in online marketing.

According to the CEO of The Echo Digital (TED), Mr Kehinde Odeyemi, the purpose of the conference is to educate people about the opportunities in online marketing because of the believe that Digital is the new business.

The Echo Digital, T.E.D started on the 1st of August 2017 and since launch, has executed  over 620 jobs in marketing since inception ranging from Ads, SEO, Page Management and Development, Email Marketing, Branding, Website Designs, Content Creation and Trainings in Digital Marketing with Certification.

The brand has also organised 3 major tradefairs and planning 2 others between March and April. 

According to his address, ''We have made sure that we increased the benefits on each ticketing by multiplying the benefits from ast year. This was in such a manner that whoever does not want to participate in the event needs to be mentally analysed'' as the benefits cannot be underestimated.

He further stated that the market of the conference are business owners, individuals who are interested in learning skills in online marketing and who want to become professionals in it.

Mr Kehinde also encouraged support and sponsorship for the event as a requirement to make history together. In his words, ''We hope to have a better edition. We got a lot of positive reviews last year, let us do that again and triple or quadruple it..''

Interested Participants are required to register and get conference tickets via https://paystack.com/pay/tedinvasion using Lead number 037. Ticket Prices Range between: #1,500 and #3,000 

The Conference is scheduled to hold at the Oduduwa Hall, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

To follow up on #TEDInvasion 2.0, connect with the brand via 

Instagram,  Facebook Or Linkedin

   

KoloNigeria launches disruptive Financial Service

 

KoloNigeria, a financial management company that operates a reformed thrift system is set to disrupt the social media space with the introduction of its new customer support bot.

Sisi, the bot, functions via the website and blog to give financial intelligence aids to individuals who are business inclined, investors and generally conscious of their wealth.

READ: If You are not in Charge of your Finances, you can't be in charge of your Destiny- Olatunde Victor, CMO Extramile Africa.

In a release announcing the launch, the KoloNG team led a notice to include that the platform operates an all inclusive system and in its operations, your financial responses are custom and personalised. 

The KoloNigeria startup with its agent roots operates in Lagos, Ondo, Osun (Ile-Ife) and Ibadan. All operations are managed via the company's website and her head office in Ondo State, Nigeria. The company started operations in 2019 with an idea phased trial platform.

Segun Awolowo to Speak at Ifelaw National Business Summit 2017

Segun Awolowo is a typical product of change and progress. He believes in achieving greatness out of smallness irrespective of the difficulties and limitations around.  His philosophy is ‘start small, grow tall and get big’

He is passionate about Business and Ministry.  His passion for business made him to start Stretch International Ltd- an Audio Visual Company in 2004. Stretch is one of the leading audio- visuals companies in Nigeria.
He has worked with both great and small organizations and has handled several projects within and out of the country, fulfilling his passion.
Stretch emerged as African Most Trusted Quality Audiovisuals Company in 2016 & 2017. He also got The Best Global  Quality Audiovisual Company of the year 2016 & 2017 and Award of Excellence as Leading Audiovisual Company in Nigeria.
Olusegun also received Distinguished Leadership award from the prestigious Center for Leadership and Good Governance International.
Segun is a member of International Resource Center, USA, Institute of Enterprise Management and Analytics, African Chief Executive Officer Business Network and Lagos Business Club. He is the host and Organizer of "Economic and Empowerment Conference" and " Purpose and Leadership summit".

He is the president and founder of Firstword International.  FWI reaches out to schools, churches, institutions and cities propagating the Gospel and influencing others to live a better life.
Segun is also the Chairman of Perfect Edge Global School; a School of global standard set up to raise a new generation of blessings.
He  is a speaker and the author the popular ‘The Budding CEO’ and ‘The Budding Millionaire’ and  many titles to his credit.  Part of his write up includes: "Don’t be Stupid, Fulfillment and Adversity, Go and Sell your goods, God is not just theAlpha and Omega, You need Help, Relevance and Appearance, Trust and Money, Business Digest and several others."
Segun trained as Electrical/Electronic Engineer, He has a degree in religion philosophy from the prestigious Evangel Christian University of America, USA  and masters in Business Administration from Metropolitan School of Business and Management – UK. He has also attended several other courses in Leadership, Customer Service and others.

Segun Awolowo is happily married to a beautiful damsel, Oluseyi Awolowo and they are blessed with children.