For the everyday Filipino entrepreneur, the covid-19 pandemic forces everyone to change. It’s a hard lesson to learn, but if you do adapt, grow and innovate, it changes you for the better. From braving the daily bumper-to-bumper traffic, the jam-packed public transport, and the overcrowded public spaces—more and more Filipinos are starting to realize, and enjoy the benefits of working from home, and even starting their own businesses at home.
There are fewer reasons to go outside—more digital apps that allow you to buy what you need in a ship or tap of their fingers, pay bills through digital currency, while safely staying in the comfort of their own homes.
That’s why the new trend that developed during the pandemic lockdowns are businesses growing inside homes with digital store fronts—the home business.
Most home business owners start with their passions, what they really love to do with their time and energy. That’s why a lot of kitchens started to reach other people’s tables.
Some hobbyists who use their hands to craft artisanal leather goods, woodwork or affordable art, even jewelry became available in the digital marketplace.
Not to mention the plantitos and plantitas who propagated more basic and rare plants with their own green thumbs, started to share the love for green, and to plant more greeneries in their urban spaces.
These are just a few of the slew of the passion-driven, but for the purpose-driven, leaders and experts were on a mission to provide what the world needed, and became the new teachers, sharing their wisdom and experience in master classes, workshops or developmental labs. Some webinars even go beyond our own cities, and can reach every part of the nation, and the rest of the world. It’s the perfect time to level-up and grow.
But whatever you’re calling, and no matter how you decide to grow from this world-changing event, we all realize, we cannot survive this pandemic by ourselves alone. We need each other to make the pandemic protocols work. And that starts with empathy, cooperation and collaboration.
According to SKY Cable Corporation Enterprise Marketing Head, Patricia F. Gabriel, “The SKYBIZ Grow Together campaign is a continuation of our Jumpstart Campaign, which started in January of this year. It aimed to support companies and businesses to get back on track after slowing down or even closing their operations due to the Covid-19 pandemic.”
The SKYBIZ Grow Together Campaign is a continuity plan for business owners to help them overcame the challenges of the new normal./(PN)
