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I have a tendency to overprotect, so I have disaster plans and continuity plans in place before almost anything else in a business. I don't think the current disaster will cause us much direct harm.
I have seen a few things. A state vendor closed their testing facilities, and that affects my school's students. It could slow down registrations, but then again, most of our classes are online, so that could be offset if people ditch face to face classes in favor of online ones. In some cases we're extending the time we allow for online class access for people who are affected; that has some cost. We had to cancel a face to face prep class, and that class had a teacher, so we made up a new job for him to do online to replace it. None of this really hurts us though, at least not so far as I can tell right now.
I just hired a full time developer in the second business, and have no plans or even see the likelihood of having to scale that down. I actually see this as a good time to invest in your own business, you own control. I understand that in some businesses, people will get fewer orders. And you just have to do what you have to do. To a certain extent, I may have lucked out by focusing on the things I've focused on... I can think of much worse businesses to be in, in this particular situation.
But I also think that if you keep on trucking through this, you're showing the market that you can thrive under adverse conditions. That's a very powerful thing, and customers, especially in b2b, can sense it.
So I see this disaster as a bad thing overall, obviously. But it also presents opportunities to show what we're made of. You asked about the commandment of control. Well, you can't control nature; at least not all of it. But there are a lot of things you can control, and if you focus on those, you can roll right through this.
I have seen a few things. A state vendor closed their testing facilities, and that affects my school's students. It could slow down registrations, but then again, most of our classes are online, so that could be offset if people ditch face to face classes in favor of online ones. In some cases we're extending the time we allow for online class access for people who are affected; that has some cost. We had to cancel a face to face prep class, and that class had a teacher, so we made up a new job for him to do online to replace it. None of this really hurts us though, at least not so far as I can tell right now.
I just hired a full time developer in the second business, and have no plans or even see the likelihood of having to scale that down. I actually see this as a good time to invest in your own business, you own control. I understand that in some businesses, people will get fewer orders. And you just have to do what you have to do. To a certain extent, I may have lucked out by focusing on the things I've focused on... I can think of much worse businesses to be in, in this particular situation.
But I also think that if you keep on trucking through this, you're showing the market that you can thrive under adverse conditions. That's a very powerful thing, and customers, especially in b2b, can sense it.
So I see this disaster as a bad thing overall, obviously. But it also presents opportunities to show what we're made of. You asked about the commandment of control. Well, you can't control nature; at least not all of it. But there are a lot of things you can control, and if you focus on those, you can roll right through this.
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