Keep Your Business Flowing During The Current Turmoil

March 24, 2020

It’s no secret that times are getting tough for businesses around the world. Countries are shutting down, with the UK being the latest one to follow suit. That means that all non-essential shops have had to shut down. For a lot of businesses that means the end for the next three weeks, or maybe even more. So, where do you stand with this all? You’re probably feeling a lot of stress and anxiety regardless. It’s uncertain times, but no doubt one you will be desperate to get through to protect the investment that is your business. We think there are tons of ways you can try and keep your business safe during these times. So, if your business is one of the ones that's still trading and will probably continue to do so for the foreseeable future, keep on reading and we'll show you how you can keep powering through the turmoil that's happening right now.

Supporting Your Increased Workload

For those businesses who are still trading, you will most likely be doing so because your business is within a key industry that the world still needs to function. It could be food processing, marketing, health supplies, whatever you do that means you're still functioning and there is an increased demand means you need to make sure that demand stays and that you can cope with it. Because of the current situation that's going on, you might need to switch up how you're doing things. Phone interview screening can be used as an alternative to face to face interviews, and it's a great way of getting to know someone. Often people are far more comfortable when you do not face to face with them. You also need to make sure that you're providing masks and plenty of soap. Enforce that your employees are washing their hands every hour, and wearing masks at all times. Nothing is going to bring your business down quicker than this virus. 

Staying Afloat

Then you need to think about staying afloat and how you can do that. The main thing to do is always make sure you're keeping your company safe, and to ensure you're still appealing to the last of the public needs. With a lot of the world going on lockdown, this is becoming harder and harder as the days go on. A lot of businesses that are involved with technology and machine creation are now making money by hiring people to make ventilators for them. The world is about to have a ventilator crisis of enough can't be made! 

Understanding What's Best 

Finally, you need to understand what's best and how you can make it work for your business. If you do find that you're losing more money than you're making and business ties are being cut due to other businesses having to shut down, you need to make the decision whether it'll be best for you. Unless you are still bustling as a business with a high turnover despite everything, then keep on going!

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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