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Burger King launches ‘Advertising Pantries’ to support local businesses

It is a strategy in which the giants of the industry will donate mass advertising to small businesses to give greater visibility to their products and services.Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising Get a glimpse of how to use Facebook’s marketing resources to your business’s advantage. February 9, 2021 3 min readThis article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. Burger King continues with its campaign to support local businesses that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and as of February 1, it joined the “Advertising…

How Sage Group is supporting resilience in small and medium-sized businesses

The Inside the Mind of the CEO interview series explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world. For more insight, see PwC’s CEO Survey. In September 2020, Steve Hare, chief executive of Sage Group, became Glassdoor’s highest-rated CEO in the U.K. during the COVID-19 pandemic. The workplace review site cited the level of communication and employee engagement Hare and his management team maintained during the crisis. “It is the key for all of us, including me personally, to make sure that we’re all keeping connected,” Hare said recently. This focus on connection also…

Indian investors join the bitcoin party after Tesla CEO Musk’s endorsement

The price and volume of bitcoin have surged in the domestic market in the past 15 hours after Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s announcement of investment in the cryptocurrency, according to Indian exchanges. Bitcoin has been on fire ever since Musk announced that Tesla had bought $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency, and that his electric-vehicle company would accept bitcoin from buyers. The announcement saw the international bitcoin price cross $48,000 from below $40,000 in just two days. In India, the price has surged from around Rs 28 lakh to about Rs 35 lakh in the…

3 Tips to Re-Engage With Isolated Consumers

February 8, 2021 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s been a turbulent past year, and isolated consumers stuck at home because of the pandemic expect a more personalized approach. The time for experimenting with digital is over. Gone are the days when marketers just sent a “We Miss You” email to inactive email subscribers, hoping to re-engage them with a discount to increase sales. Companies should instead be looking for new ways to connect with customers through new technology, targeted digital media and predictive analytics.  Check out my three tips to reconnect with your…

Irdai Working Group bats for introduction of index-linked insurance plans

A working group of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has called for the need to reintroduce index-linked insurance products. This comes at a time when the investment markets are volatile, resulting in customers preferring guaranteed returns. This, in turn, has increased the balance sheet risk of insurers. Hence, the working group is of the opinion that the index-linked insurance products can be an appropriate alternative or complimentary option to the current conventional guaranteed products and unit-linked policies. The regulator had prevented insurance firms from selling these products in 2013. Prior…

Musk-fuelled bitcoin surge triggers cryptocurrency exchange glitches

Major cryptocurrency exchanges experienced technical issues on Monday as trading volumes soared after billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc revealed it had purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon accept it as a form of payment. The electric-vehicle company’s move marked the latest step toward mainstream acceptance of bitcoin, sending it 10{bce2ac57dae147ae13b811f47f24d80c66c6ab504b39dda4a9b6e8ac93725942} higher on expectations that other companies will soon join asset manager BlackRock Inc and payments companies Square and PayPal in backing the cryptocurrency. San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken said it had re-enabled sign-ups after temporarily disabling them earlier in the day because…

These Are 10 Brands That Won’t Air Commercials During Super Bowl LV

January 26, 2021 4 min read What’s a Super Bowl without the commercials? We won’t find out in 2021, but major brands like Coca-Cola, Ford and Budweiser will sit out this year’s Big Game.  “With Super Bowl parties either scaled way down or just canceled, it probably makes sense to sit this one out at this cost” for certain marketing categories, Brian Sheehan, a professor of advertising at Syracuse University’s SI Newhouse School of Public Communications, told Variety. Related: Every Day in Business Should Be Treated Like Super Bowl Sunday A 30-second spot in Super Bowl LV costs advertisers $5.5…

MFs’ selling spree continues, pull out Rs 12,980 cr from equities in Jan

Continuing the selling spree for the eighth consecutive month, mutual funds pulled out Rs 12,980 crore from equities in January as surge in markets provided an opportunity to book profits. MyWealthGrowth.com co-founder Harshad Chetanwala said investors may prefer to book profits for some more time as they witness more surge in the stock market. However, with growth-focused Budget, improving economy and vaccination drive, the equities are one of the best asset classes to remain invested at present, he added. Overall, mutual funds withdrew a net of over Rs 56,400…