The Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) global pandemic can be disabling in so many ways—with your job, business, social relationships, and the economy being put on hold.
But, cheer up. Don’t let COVID-19 be a downer.
If you are currently on a home quarantine, below are some ways to make the most of your spare and idle time for the success of your business.
1. Learn New Things and Keep up with the World
Remember the time when you said to yourself, “I want to enroll in this certain class.”? But you don ‘t have time or are too tired to lift a finger at the end of a long day?
Well, good news! You have lots of time now—In fact, plenty of it!
Topics to Learn at Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic Quarantine
There is so much to learn about running a business. Whether you have a physical shop, an online store or a website where you offer your services, here are suggested topics or courses you can take during your COVID-19 home quarantine:
Programming Languages essential for running a website such as HTML, CSS, PHP, and Phyton
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) course
Photography and some basic photoshop/photo editing lessons
Graphic Designing 101
Business Management
Online Marketing Strategies
Accounting for non-accountants
If the suggestions above sound dull and boring to you, take anything that strikes your fancy.
A new language? A crash course on how to decode a Morse Code? Or a lesson in baking, perhaps?—You decide!
After all, a business is all about passion, and you should be enjoying what you are passionate about the most.
Where to get learning materials during the COVID-19 Lockdown?
Since social distancing is encouraged, we suggest that you go online and access these materials.
For starters, here are some places with learning resources that can help you grow and expand your business further:
Sites offering online courses or classes such as Udemy, Coursera and Skillshare.
Books, preferably the best-seller ones such as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Start with Why and Good to Great
Audiobooks from Audible, LibriVox or Project Gutenberg if you are not much into reading.
Business podcasts such as How I Built This with Guy Raz, Business Wars and The Tim Ferris Show.
NOTE: You can access the above podcasts and other insightful ones through Stitcher, Pocket Casts, or your built iOS Podcasts app if you’re using an Apple device.
Educational and motivational YouTube Channels such as Crash Course, Google Small Business and Marie Forleo’s Marie TV.
The search can be overwhelming at first with tons of resources available. So, we advise you to determine first what kind of stuff you’d like to get (books, audio materials, videos, etc.) before plunging into the search.
2. Improve your business products and services
Use your COVID-19 home quarantine to go over your products and services. Put yourself in the shoes of your clients by trying out your products and services yourself. This way, you’ll get to learn what needs to be improved so you can provide a better customer experience.
Meanwhile, if you’re the one producing e-books, how-to books, and similar products, you may also dedicate your time during the COVID-19 lockdown to some editing and research work. This way, your stakeholders find more value in the work that you do.
3. Solidify and Create New Networks During COVID-19 Home Quarantine
Don’t let the COVID-19 Global Pandemic break your relationships.
Solidify your connection with people who used to be around you, both family and business partners, by merely contacting them and asking how they are doing. You’ll never know how a single call can make a lot of difference.
On the other hand, you can also build new business networks in the comforts of your home by doing the following:
Update your professional and business profile on Linkedin / Google My Business; and make sure that all the contact numbers, emails and addresses are all correct.
Contribute valuable answers to various community forums such as Quora and Reddit.
Meet other entrepreneurs in business community platforms such as Startupnation, BizWarriors and The Fa$tlane Forum.
Conduct virtual meetings and speak with your business contacts through Skype, Google Hangouts, and Zoom.
Respond to comments, both positive and negative, in your company’s social media accounts.
4. Help fellow COVID-19 Pandemic Victims and Charge it to Good Karma
There are so many ways to help fellow humans in these trying times. First off is by sending some financial assistance to globally acknowledged institutions.
Donations made to the World Health Organization (WHO), for instance, will surely go a long way. Plus, WHO donations are also tax-deductible for U.S. based donors.
Meanwhile, if a donation is not your thing, here are other non-monetary ways to spark some faith in humanity:
Spread awareness of COVID-19 and how you can avoid it.
Share the news from legitimate sites and avoid fake news at all costs.
Empower others to be productive in their homes (just like what we do right now).
5. Increase your Company’s Online Presence during the COVID-19 Crisis
During the quarantine, the Internet serves as our window to the outside world. Hence, as an entrepreneur, you have to make yourself stand out in the online world.
Here are some ingenious ways to do that:
Develop SEO techniques when writing or designing your website.
Write helpful content that your stakeholders will find useful and relevant.
Update your posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube regularly.
Use attention-grabbing and relevant photos on your posts.
Find blogs where you can do guest posts and promote your business.
Make your email newsletters more shareable and relatable by tailoring it to a specific audience.
Advanzmedia can Help You Boost Your Online Presence
If you are clueless about how your company can take over the online world, let Advanzmedia do the work for you. We can help you write compelling SEO articles, design your website and rebrand your company. So, the world takes notice of you.
Contact us to learn how we can help you convert prospects to actual clients.
Before this whole COVID-19 pandemic situation, we often comment, “so many things to do but so little time.” Now that the tables have turned leaving us with so much time in our hands, it’s time to do the things that we couldn’t prioritize in the past because of lack of time.
Whether it’s business, education, relationships or our health, it’s never too late for improvement.
Advanzmedia wishes you a very productive COVID-19 Quarantine at your home.