Results of the week from the Pro Business portal

Online security, earnings on creativity and conclusions from failures. We briefly retell what Pro Business wrote about last week.

Business conditions

In March last year, we told how small businesses in Zhdanovichi coped with the negative consequences of the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine. Now, in addition to the previous ones, entrepreneurs have new difficulties: a ban on price increases in Belarus and tax increases. “Pro Business” again visited the market to find out how the trade is going under the new conditions.

Economics for business

On March 10, 2023, the California regulator closed Silicon Valley Bank (owned by SVB Financial Group, is the 16th largest bank in the United States by assets) and transferred it to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). This is the worst bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. And following SVB, regulators shut down a competitor of this bank, New York-based Signature Bank, which was popular with cryptocurrency owners. Why this happened and what could be the consequences, read here.

Later, the largest Swiss bank was threatened with bankruptcy. About what is happening and whether to expect a repeat of the financial crisis, we told here.

Useful for business

Everyone likes to talk about successes, but we draw the most valuable conclusions from failures. The general manager of Timegroup International, Evgeny Simonenko, shared his failures and tips on how to avoid them at the FAKAP DAY-2023 conference of useful conclusions.

The results of 2022 and trends were outlined by the head of hoster.by.

We figured out what a Smart-checkout is and how to choose the best offer.

39% of buyers make emotional purchases (SDEK study). “Pro Business” learned from an expert how to grab the attention of a buyer online and inspire him to buy using emotional marketing techniques.

We show how the Pro Business Club travels to the regions and with excursions to enterprises.

Unusual for business

An artist must be hungry. A beautiful phrase that for some reason justifies the low assessment of the work of creative people. It’s one thing to feel like a genius, but at the same time forced to earn a living doing what you don’t like, and another thing is to receive money along with recognition, which is enough for a quiet life filled with creativity. Read about the five most commercially successful contemporary songs.