We talk to a long time fan, first time caller, Mark Stirling about a brand's perspective on COVID-19. We talk through things like allocating inventory, manfacturing as fast as possible, and how to manage customers that might be unhappy with out of stock situations.

To find Mark:

Cherry Yang, connector extraordinaire. Airtable expert, general smartie pants comes on. She talks connectors, analytics and making things automated. Cherry is a critical integrator to helping businesses build sales funnel tracking, CRM projects and lead attribution are a few of the things she can help with.

Here's how to find Cherry:

https://www.airopsconsulting.org/

What is marketing to clients? Phil runs into a bunch of brands that are asking for marketing but maybe doesn't know what they're asking for.

To find Tazz, you can head to https://petropolisnyc.com/about-tazz-latifi/

WWLD! Philly talks about being out and on his own again - how it feels to leave Nymi, and work with clients that he loves. He's focused on shit that he loves, shit that he likes and none of the shit that's just shit, and trying not to do too much shit.

Kenny wants to be like Phil.

600 doors to 20 000 in 3 years. Smart Sweets is the Queen of the #kicksugar movement. We talk to Koreann Webster about their sweet success

https://smartsweets.ca/

Kenny gives Jake gas. We talk to Jake from Mid-Day-Squares about success and adjusting for Covid-19. These guys are the real deal...over a million bars sold. Mad magazine?? Spy vs Spy? Kenny shows his age, Philly admits he loves Spy vs Spy.

To order some chocolate, head to https://www.middaysquares.com/

Covid retailing continues. A retailer/wholesaler/distributer comes on. Struggles of government subsidies, rent subsidies and how to adapt without precendent.

Domenic Bruzzese of La Grotta Del Formaggio came on the show to talk about retailing during Covid, and how to adjust for a new normal

https://www.linkedin.com/company/lgdf-wholesale/?originalSubdomain=ca

Peter Winstanley of Jaks comes on the show. We talk to him about COVID retailing, all the things that retailers have to deal with during Covid. We also talk about what to think about when you're coming out of social distancing and the new stage of retail.

You can check out JAK'S Beer Wine Spirits here: www.jaks.com

Peter Winstanley's Linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-winstanley-14174baa/

Philly does a disappearing act on Kenny, the guys talk cybersecurity, the additional market effects of Covid and how the market will look when things open

Businesses need to adjust to Covid and an extended period away. More importantly, they need to adjust to the fact that shopping behaviour won't be the same again at all. The guys talk about changes that could happen and how retailers should think about changing their business models.