--- title: (7) description: (7) image: https://www.hubspot.com/hubfs/assets/hubspot.com/buzz/HubSpotOpenGraph.png --- # Trends Articles Filter by tag All Articles Membership Required Interviews profile Marketing featured industry deep dive eCommerce health and wellness Database how to Technology Entertainment and Media food and beverage Software Analysis DTC Health homepage q and a COVID-19 Uncategorized Business Food Finance and Investing Media Retail Entertainment Transportation Markets environment Guides My First Million Podcast global Beauty Finance Apparel B2B saas sports and fitness Education Real Estate Signals Vice hr service Property travel Design Guide No Paywall medical Diversity HustleCon Newsletters Video Weekly diversity and Inclusion energy hardware & electronics legal pets [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/hygiene-industry-opportunities-and-changes) [ COVID-19 ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/covid-19) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ health and wellness ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/health-and-wellness) [ Food ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/food) ## [The Hygiene Industry: Opportunities and Changes](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/hygiene-industry-opportunities-and-changes) Picture this: It’s April 2021 and you’re meeting a friend for dinner. You can’t decide where to go because your favorite tapas place is closed — communal food is a thing of the past. You eventually agree on a spot, but it’s hard to get a reservation since restaurants are only accommodating half their normal number of patrons. [ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) May 12, 2020 12:08:40 PM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/why-josh-wolfe-wants-to-back-societys-outcasts) [ COVID-19 ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/covid-19) [ featured ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/featured) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ health and wellness ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/health-and-wellness) [ Technology ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/technology) [ Software ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/software) [ Finance ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/finance) [ Health ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/health) ## [Why Josh Wolfe Wants to Back Society’s Outcasts](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/why-josh-wolfe-wants-to-back-societys-outcasts) Josh Wolfe believes that society’s outcasts are the ones who hold the secret to human progress. And he’s dedicated his life to spotting them early.  [ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) May 5, 2020 11:18:55 AM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/interactive-podcasts) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Podcast ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/podcast) [ Media ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/media) [ Entertainment ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/entertainment) [ Signals ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/signals) ## [Solving the Interactive Podcast Mystery](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/interactive-podcasts) **The Signal:** You can add “interactive podcasts” to the list of interactive digital experiences that will stick in the post-COVID world. This new genre of media, which blurs the lines between narrative and gaming, was gaining popularity before the pandemic. [ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) May 5, 2020 8:59:00 AM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/post-coronavirus-regulation-will-force-companies-to-spend-billions-on-compliance-here-are-the-opportunities) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ Uncategorized ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/uncategorized) ## [Post-Coronavirus Regulation Will Force Companies to Spend Billions On Compliance. Here Are The Opportunities.](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/post-coronavirus-regulation-will-force-companies-to-spend-billions-on-compliance-here-are-the-opportunities) **The Signal:** The coronavirus crisis is forcing governments in the [US](https://www.axios.com/medicare-advantage-2021-regulations-coronavirus-fb017bf9-2b8a-47c5-b00e-95255bc97b7f.html) and [Europe](https://atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/explainer/european-union-regulatory-changes-during-coronavirus/) to make regulatory changes on the fly. The post-crisis world will see significant regulatory changes in regard to health care and disaster preparedness. And these changes will cost companies billions in compliance costs. According to research by [Rice University](https://news.rice.edu/2019/09/13/bank-compliance-costs-jumped-more-than-50b-a-year-after-dodd-frank-act-rice-expert-finds-2/), the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act following the 2008-09 financial crisis “roughly doubled the number of regulations applied to U.S. banks, which hiked their compliance costs by more than $50 billion per year”. Costs included compliance salary expenses, auditing, consulting, data processing and legal fees. Further analysis by [George Mason University](https://www.mercatus.org/publications/regulation/dodd-frank-one-biggest-regulatory-events-ever) showed that the number of new regulatory restrictions created by the Dodd-Frank Act dwarfed the combined impact of every other Obama-era administration law. In addition to the fact that there is significant coronavirus-related changes coming to global regulatory regimes, existing compliance training have 2 underlying factors that make the industry ripe for disruption: [ Trung Phan ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/trung-phan) May 4, 2020 1:51:43 PM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/testing-business-ideas-with-andrew-hogan) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ Guides ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/guides) [ Guide ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/guide) ## [Testing Business Ideas With Andrew Hogan](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/testing-business-ideas-with-andrew-hogan) **Andrew Hogan**, a London-based paid marketing professional with 10 years of travel and ecommerce experience, set the Trends Facebook group on fire with this [post](https://thehustle62422.acemlnb.com/lt.php?notrack=1&s=4041f77a67612f63acc898f2d19c06d7&i=245A498A2A4786): “Today, I will help validate your idea with Google search data.” [ Trung Phan ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/trung-phan) Apr 25, 2020 3:46:06 PM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/lecture-lesson-nik-sharma-launching-a-product) Marketing [ featured ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/featured) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ eCommerce ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/ecommerce) [ Guides ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/guides) ## [Lecture Lessons: Launching a Product 101 with Nik Sharma](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/lecture-lesson-nik-sharma-launching-a-product) ******Lecture Lessons**** provides actionable takeaways from our Trends Lectures series. This entry is based on Nik Sharma’s *[***Product Launch 101 ***](https://trends.co/articles/product-launch-playback-notes-the-lecture-and-presentation/)****webinar*****. You can find him at [Sharma Brands](https://sharmabrands.com/), f**ollow him on *[*Twitter *](https://twitter.com/mrsharma?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)*or contact him via text (917-905-2340). ***** * [ Trung Phan ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/trung-phan) Apr 23, 2020 1:22:37 PM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/10-lessons-from-small-businesses-that-survived-the-great-recession) [ COVID-19 ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/covid-19) [ how to ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/how-to) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ profile ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/profile) ## [10 Lessons From Small Businesses That Survived the Great Recession](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/10-lessons-from-small-businesses-that-survived-the-great-recession) Last week, we sent out a [survey](https://thehustledaily.typeform.com/to/ELDNT0) inviting businesses that made it through the Great Recession to tell us how they did it. We got hundreds of responses, creating [a database](https://trends.co/recession-database) that shows the mix of strategies they used to cope with the economic fallout. [ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Apr 10, 2020 9:11:17 PM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/7-thriving-businesses-forced-to-pivot-in-hard-times) [ COVID-19 ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/covid-19) [ how to ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/how-to) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ profile ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/profile) ## [How 7 Thriving Businesses Pivoted in Hard Times](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/7-thriving-businesses-forced-to-pivot-in-hard-times) This week we’re publishing our third (and likely final) installment of our “Coping with Coronavirus” series (here’s [part 1](https://trends.co/articles/trends-community-as-business-owners-face-the-coronavirus/) and [part 2](https://trends.co/articles/businesses-pivot-as-coronavirus-impact-widens/)). The final mini-case studies, all from new industries, cover 7 thriving businesses forced to pivot during an unprecedented era: [ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Mar 31, 2020 1:50:42 PM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/how-6-businesses-managed-coronavirus-pivot) [ COVID-19 ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/covid-19) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ profile ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/profile) ## [How 6 Businesses Managed a Coronavirus Pivot](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/how-6-businesses-managed-coronavirus-pivot) Last week, we profiled the business impact that coronavirus is having on [6 of our Trends community members](https://trends.co/articles/). The mini case studies covered the marketing, events, cleaning, beauty, manufacturing, and newsletters industries. [ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Mar 24, 2020 1:15:59 PM [ Read more ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/stories-from-the-trends-community) [ COVID-19 ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/covid-19) [ how to ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/how-to) [ Membership Required ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/membership-required) [ Articles ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/articles) [ q and a ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/tag/q-and-a) ## [We Talked to 30+ Companies About Their Strategies for Coping with Coronavirus. Here Are Their Stories.](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/stories-from-the-trends-community) On March 12, 2020, Sam asked the Trends community, “How has your business been impacted by coronavirus? Grown? Hurt?” [ Trung Phan ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/trung-phan) Mar 17, 2020 1:58:55 PM