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This reader’s business dodged the bullet on Covid. He’s a lucky dog, and boy is he grateful.
When Covid hit Social Native, no one expected that working from home might be a problem! Neither did anyone anticipate learning that their big expensive offices were not nearly so necessary.
Robert Rising of NY City Slab in Yonkers, NY says he couldn’t stop for Covid in February. The authorities told him to shut down operations but he managed to prevail. Here’s how.
Grace Fricks is head of ACE, which processes micro-loans. Her team found creative ways around the red tape, including a whole new use for her cell phone, to fast-track the process.
The pandemic knocked out all the big-ticket renovations at Anthony Wilder Design/Build. So, Mark VanDeWege says, they put all their efforts into the smaller jobs. It paid off in more ways than they had expected.
In the midst of all these painful decisions, Doyle Davis of Grimey’s Records got a call from Taylor Swift’s office. She wanted to know how much money he needed to keep going: “I didn’t even know what to say!”
Covid locked up the dressing room and knocked out the cash-flow, and the owners of the Gazebo realized they needed a new business model. Here’s what they did.
Brett Barry was at the top of his game as a mind-reading performer until the pandemic. Even though he’s not psychic, he’s sure things won’t get back to normal in his industry for more than a year. And he's darn angry about it.
Rodney Meeks is a second generation owner of a debt-collection business. He says: “ It felt like I was crossing the street and got hit by an airplane!” Here’s how things changed for him.
My manufacturer and suppliers were closed. At that moment in time, the only thing that made sense was hitting the pause button, and reevaluating where I want my business to go.