How to
help businesses now?
Consider
buying a gift certificate from your favourite restaurant or accommodation
provider that you can use after the pandemic passes.
Assists a business NOW and encourages sustainability long term.
Shop local,
learn who your local producers are, follow your local food and wine group on
social media, they won’t run out like the supermarkets short term but need your
support, go back to basics, embrace seasonality.
Not for
profit groups?
Planning a
meeting why not host a virtual meeting, skype, zoon etc can help you do this.. What’s App (uses your internet) you can do Facetime (as does messenger) we have a huge variety
of tech at our disposal.
Use it.
Social isolation
will save lives, but we still need that interaction and good grief our communities
still need to grow and develop.
How businesses
can be proactive?
Deliveries – at home and to front doors? Is this something you can offer?
Deliveries – at home and to front doors? Is this something you can offer?
Take advanced
bookings for summer and next year offer an incentive for clients not to cancel
just postpone.
Reduce a
table or a few chairs to increase that 1-metre range for diners.
Develop COVID
19 polices – get your team to work with you on this.....seek outside medial advice if you can.
Clients usually come to you? What about going to them? diversify - get creative.
Encourage your staff to buy local...
Clients usually come to you? What about going to them? diversify - get creative.
Encourage your staff to buy local...
Don't give up...our local economies depend on vibrancy.. and income..
So, you are
in lockdown for two weeks…
Boredom may
set in…but there is so much to do.
For a businessperson
this is a great time to PLAN – business, marketing and explore diversification.
Build COVID
19 policies develop ways to instill confidence in your customers and remember once
its done - COMMUNICATE what you are doing to keep everyone safe.
Reach out
to clients, see if they are ok.
Take up an online
course and work from home.
Invest in
your staff…..upskill staff – encourage them:
to work from home,
take on a course …those gaps that you identified can be worked upon at home in their own time.
take on a course …those gaps that you identified can be worked upon at home in their own time.
Stay in touch see how they are going.
Staff are your BIGGEST ASSET.
If you have
a premise…shut the doors for a few weeks and do that urgent maintenance! Paint
freshen up displays and wash walls.
Anything to make a difference and feel in
control of your patch.
Give early holidays
and encourage staff to swap their holidays for now instead of the busy times
ahead.
Overall..
Don’t sit
still…. business doesn’t stop just because this MASSIVE challenge has come our
way.
And finally…
be optimistic, we all need to work together and support local businesses and
our community.
Need help planning? need help marketing? - reach out sam@samhicks.com.au