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08/14/2020

How Micro-businesses Have Blunted COVID-19's Economic Impact

They are thriving amid the pandemic

Digital businesses  — from part-time "side hustles" selling homemade jewelry to local restaurants that started fulfilling orders online during the pandemic — have helped U.S. communities weather the economic storm caused by the COVID-19 crisis.

Orders placed on such websites almost doubled between January and April, as stay-at-home edicts caused consumers to move spending online.

These and other findings are part of a new dataset from Venture Forward, a multi-year research project combining information about GoDaddy’s millions of U.S. web domains with data from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and other similar sources.

Please select this link to read the complete blog post from GoDaddy.

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