What is content creation and working with brands like? Can you pause this right now or can you continue to do so from?
- Content creation and collaboration with brands has been severely affected by the lockdown in Shanghai in the current situation. It is practically impossible to work with brands at the moment. You can't go out, make videos, and you can't deliver products. Many agencies and stores are also at home and many stores have come to a standstill simply because there are much more pressing problems to solve, medically, personally or when it comes to food.
- It is difficult to spend money on an Influencer-Kooperation because there are more important priorities, such as providing employees and managing current challenges. Therefore, it is likely that content creation and collaboration with brands will have to be paused until the situation improves.
What about the staff and the team? How are they cared for, especially those who are not locally from Shanghai and often live in a shared apartment or shared apartment condition and often don't even have a kitchen?
- Providing for the staff and the team, especially those who are not from Shanghai and live in shared apartment-like circumstances, is a challenge. Many of these employees often do not have their own kitchen and are therefore completely dependent on food supplies.
- In the first days of the lockdown, the teams were busy supplying these employees. However, it was found that food supply prices have risen sharply and logistics in Shanghai are severely limited. Therefore, only food can be delivered, if at all.
- However, there are attempts to circumvent this situation. For example, some companies are trying to send products to affected areas after the lockdown is over. Customers can pay today and receive the products later, once deliveries are possible again.
How does Covid-19 test protocols that impede the loading and unloading of trucks and cargo trucks affect logistics and transshipment?
Content creation and collaboration with brands:
- Content creation: The lockdown in Shanghai has severely affected content creation. Many influencers and content creators can no longer go outside to shoot videos or take photos as usual. Freedom of movement is severely limited, which hinders creativity and the ability to create content.
- Working with brands: Working with brands has come to a near standstill. Many companies have cut their marketing commitments and prioritize other urgent spending. It is difficult to spend money on Influencer-Kooperationen when there are so many other challenges. Most agencies and brands have temporarily ceased their activities.
Staff and team care:
- Food supply: Employees, especially those who are not locally from Shanghai and live in shared apartment-like circumstances, depend on food supplies. Many do not have their own kitchen and cannot cook for themselves. Therefore, they depend on delivery services.
- Price increases: Food supply prices have risen sharply as demand is high and logistics are limited. Companies are trying to cover these costs, but it is a challenge.
- Product deliveries: Some companies offer to deliver products that customers can pay for today. However, delivery does not take place until logistics returns to normal.
Impact of Covid-19 test protocols on logistics and transshipment:
- Delays: The test logs lead to significant delays in loading and unloading trucks and freight stores. Hinterland services are severely affected.
- Turnover statistics: Turnover compared to the previous week fell by 33 percent. This mainly affects access to the port for trucks.
- Alternative ports: Some carriers use the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, located 150 kilometers west of Shanghai. There, transshipment increased by 21 percent.
How do you handle Fake News and how do you verify the information you receive?
- You had thousands and thousands of opportunities to order food. All of this has come to a complete standstill and many people are really having trouble getting through the day. The question is always, of course, how can you verify the videos you see online, because in our time today there is of course a lot of fake news and you can't verify everything. Therefore, you should always be careful with the info you get. But personally I can say that we are doing quite well. We have enough to eat, our dog is well housed, we took him to a dog hotel, he has some nice things to do now. Damian, with you in day 14, what does it look like there? How did you get Lebensmittellieferungen ? Have you been able to order something yourself? Yes exactly, with us it is so that we also received this Government Care package. I don't know, so three, four times it was now certainly in the last, so over the last few days with enough vegetables. We had carrots, salad, etc.. There we still had meat and chicken. I must say, the Government chicken did it too, it also tasted good. That was a special experience. Otherwise, I am used to it with theses. I did it twice, but it was planned to fly by plane from Germany back to Shanghai and then sit here. A third has become unscheduled, which is even longer than the you do now, when you then come back from Germany and actually to China. So a bit unintentional and uncool. But that's why I learned about. Of course, there are also other colleagues and friends in the area who have done such many times. Therefore, it is not new. You get through somehow. Otherwise, I am glad that the cold is relatively completely sick.
- Because at the moment we have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and have all the products in the shopping bars in the Ding Dong App or Eparmarket or whatever there is, what just delivers. And then at 6 o'clock, quasi when the shopping countdown begins, we have to pick up with our thick and small fingers directly on the cell phone, so that we still get the delivery as quickly as possible. And sometimes successful, sometimes not. So-so. But that's fine. I think I'll get through the rounds quite healthy. How do you organize your shopping, Thomas? Yes, a lot of things in China or everything here in China goes digitally and digitally. That's the great app here. And groups have formed really quickly now. So I used to be a big enemy of WeChat groups or groups, where you get spammed - but now it has proven to be very helpful and we have a Compound group for food distribution, then we have a Compound group for pets. That is, if someone no longer has cat litter at home or no longer has dog food at home, then we help each other and that is already very well organized and you can see, of course, that from the official side there is a lot of mismanagement and much goes wrong, but that people just help themselves to know and also try to get through the rounds as well as possible.
- The problem or the big difference to thes that have been done before in the hotel, of which I have not done any yet, so I was not in Germany for two and a half years, so it is that you knew that after 14 days or 14 plus 7 days you will be free again and at the moment there is no end in sight here in Shanghai, no one knows how long it will take. And yesterday we also got the notice, because in our building there are two confirmed positive cases, that there are now only two or three times a week deliveries, to stop the interaction between neighbors and employees, that you just do not meet, that you have no possibility to transmit the virus from one human to another. But it already goes with many people really to the substance, so also nervously you see of course also. I have today with us before the hour still the neighbors above us, they had a quite violent marital dispute, a very violent crisis of honor. Because when you've been squatting on each other for two weeks - and maybe a lot of bad feelings come up - and then if you don't even get your daily coffee or food delivery, your nerves are often bare. Yes, and personally, as I said, we're fine, that's obviously nothing that's representative of the Shanghai population. Of course, that depends on every district. Shanghai has 25 million inhabitants and it has to be emphasized that nothing is representative there. Every family, every compound, every district is organized differently, the state is different, so we have to emphasize again that only our perser Daniel, tell us briefly for new listeners who don't know you yet and your company what your company is doing. You are independent and have been traveling between China and Germany for a long time. Exactly. What we do is relatively simply put, we are an e-commerce and social media enabler. That means we manage e-commerce stores of major international brands, all the operations behind it and also logistics, customer service, store management, performance marketing and also work with yesterdays and KOLs, in order to bring the necessary traffic to the product details pages of the stores. We do that in our daily business.