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Innovative Business Ideas on Handling your Business during this Time of Pandemic

November 30, 2021 By GISuser

The pandemic forced a harsh reality on many businesses worldwide. The reality is that only those businesses that can exercise innovation and flexibility can keep up with the tide until the crisis is over. Entrepreneurs like yourself must possess or cultivate these two traits if they want to achieve a financial turnaround that will help them survive this crisis or any others like it in the future.

Why Is Innovation Important?

Innovation is defined as the ability to conceptualize new products or to create new approaches to existing ones to improve their saleability and revenues. Even before the pandemic, innovation has been hailed as a vital skill an entrepreneur or their team members must cultivate. This is because being innovative helps businesses stay ahead of their competitors, achieve growth, and adjust to new and disruptive factors in the landscape.

What Innovations Can You Introduce to Your Business to Survive This Pandemic?

While most of the non-essential businesses in the United States were forced to close down during the initial lockdowns, many of these enterprises refused to throw the gauntlet and found ways to adjust. They did so by employing various techniques, including the ones below:

Leverage Technology

Technology, unsurprisingly, became the center point of many businesses’ survival during the pandemic. Both businesses and consumers alike have reported increased usage of digital solutions like e-wallets, delivery apps, and telecommuting software like Zoom, Google Meet, and many others. It was only by combining the capabilities of these software solutions were certain enterprises managed to stay afloat during the early days of the pandemic.

For instance, restaurants continued earning revenues throughout the lockdown by offering customers the choice to order online and have the food delivered to their doorstep. Medical practitioners used telemedicine to organize patient consultations without actually having to meet physically. These companies continued earning revenues from their customers by offering safe and alternative ways to purchase products or services despite the crisis.

Reevaluate Finances and Financing Solutions

Every penny in your cash flow counts, more so during this pandemic than ever before. Revenues are thin now, and you might encounter financial problems very soon if you don’t monitor or reevaluate your finances constantly. Take time to sit down and look at your financial statements and follow where every piece of cash that comes into your company goes.

Your goal is to find possible gaps in cash flow by balancing income and expenses, so you can find ways to plug the hole. Common cash flows affect the areas of payroll, inventory, and debt repayments. It’s important to spot these problems early on, so you can seek timely aid like taking out a fast business loan to normalize the cash flow.

You also have to reevaluate your sources of income. If you’re having cash flow problems because of accounts receivables that are not yet due, you can take out invoice financing. This loan lets you receive a portion of those invoices ahead through a cash advance.

Adjust Workflows to Correspond to Public Health Measures

Several states have already done away with mask mandates in response to growing vaccination rates. However, some states still require the wearing of masks in indoor spaces like supermarkets, restaurants, offices, and many others.

For entrepreneurs, it’s important to keep abreast of these developments in public health measures against COVID-19. It’s vital not only to ensure that your business does not receive any penalties from the government but also to keep your employees and customers safe.

However, indoor safety measures like social distancing and Plexiglas barriers DO disrupt processes. The crucial part here is improving on existing safety measures within your business to make the process more efficient while still keeping everybody safe.

The tricky part here is keeping up with ever-changing mandates from the government. Regulations are bound to change in response to current events. The Omicron variant, for instance, might prompt authorities to bring back many of the health and safety protocols that have already been scrapped. Keeping up with news and updates, however, can help you avoid the shock and the frantic scrambling to comply with the new rules.

Innovation is key to keeping up with the volatility in business caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses that can constantly find ways to adapt to the sudden changes are the ones that are more likely to make it past the current crisis.

As an entrepreneur, you can achieve innovation by keeping a close eye on how the ongoing pandemic affects your finances and your workflow and then finding ways to adjust to these shifts. Fortunately, there are various digital solutions and financing avenues that you can leverage to keep your business afloat throughout the uncertainty caused by COVID-19.

 

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