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March 2020
March 2020
UPDATE April 1, 2020: fill out the new, faster Streamlined COVID-19 Application Form which can include a $10,000 quick advance on the traditional loan.
If you are a small business in an area that has declared a state of emergency related to the COVID-19 crisis, then you are eligible to apply to the Small Business Administration for a Disaster Loan Assistance from the federal government (PDF Fact Sheet). This loans can provide your business $25,000 of working capital (at a reasonable 3.305% rate) to take care of your employees, pay bills, and weather the storm. The SBA usually only denies loans for reasons of low credit (50% approval rate). NOTE: it's unclear if you need to fill out the longer Disaster Loan Assistance if you also filled out the Streamlined Application. For certainty, it's probably worth filling them both out.
You could also use this money to adjust to this new reality, and adapt your business to become more digital and disaster proof.
We don’t know what the future ...
March 2020
March 2020
Could that meeting have been an email? That support phone call, a better online dashboard? That consultation, an e-book? That sale, an online order? How much of what you do in the physical presence of customers could be done virtually?
It’s great seeing each other face to face, and we definitely don’t want to lose this beauty of human contact in life or business. But the world is changing. And whether you and all your customers are under coronavirus quarantine, or you just want to empower your customers under normal circumstances to save time, by giving the option to manage their account or buy your product/service online, it’s time to start thinking about how to expand your business’s digital capacity.
A powerful website should be able to increase leads, facilitate sales, empower self-service, and even augment your revenue by expanding new digital products and services that you haven’t even considered.
If you have a business, you already have the legal and administrative ...
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With the Coronavirus Closing Physical Locations, Is Your Business Ready to Keep Operating Digitally?
March 2020
March 2020
With the Coronavirus shutting down the global economy and forcing people to stay in their homes, there is a lot of uncertainty about what comes next, how long we will be sheltering at home, and what massive economic impact this will have.
These are troubling times with many questions, but one thing is for certain: we are living in a new world. We must adapt.
How is your business or organization going to be impacted by this new reality? If this lasts more than a few weeks, or happens again in the future, is your business ready to operate at least part of it's services digitally? Are there parts of your business that can continue virtually if you had a more sophisticated website?
For the past twenty years, business has been slowly migrating online, but most small businesses still don't even have a website, or if they do, it's a little more than a business card. Very few businesses have thought about how to leverage the incredible power of the internet to capture leads, drive sales, ...
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