With the increasing cases of COVID-19 throughout the world, there is a state of panic and emergency across the nations. In order to serve as a measure of preventing the spread of this epidemic, many nations have chosen to lock-down. From the time WHO declared COVID-19 as a ‘Pandemic’, not just people’s health, but businesses, industries, and corporates are also experiencing a decline. 

The epicenter of the outbreak is Wuhan, China. It was here, where the early cases of Coronavirus reported in late December 2019. However, with the time, it has now spread over the globe with more than 156 countries reporting the cases and deaths from CoronaVirus. Its recent spread to the major manufacturing hubs including the U.S.A has further led to a negative impact on the global economy and supply chains. 

With all this happening around, it is now time for the Tech and IT-Sector to implement a certain plan of action that helps to mitigate the risk and to deal with this fallout from the pandemic. With all the sectors experiencing a downfall, how can the digital marketing companies and WordPress Themes market in India be an exception? It has affected the marketing budgets of the firms, resulted in the curtailment of the marketing campaigns and lead generation. Organizations are cancelling the meetings, conferences, Digital agencies are facing a low hit, People are being advised to work remotely, and the market is at an all-time low. 

As A Firm, How Could You Cope-Up With This?

With the outbreak, we all know that there is a situation that many projects being uncompleted and are kept at a halt. However, it is the duty of marketers that they should not exploit the situation for their personal benefits. They need to see the long-lasting impact that their need for short term profit may cause. There is no doubt that this situation has caused losses to the firms. But for making up those losses, you should not charge your clients several times the actual rates. When you do this, you might gain a profit for now but as far as long term business is concerned, you are at a loss as you are projecting a negative impression of your business that may harm you in the future. 

How To Use Your Tools To Help The Business Revive?

With the CoronaVirus Pandemic spreading like a woods fire, the basic necessities and requirements of people cannot be curtailed. For example, as people are advised to stay away from crowded places, you can avoid going to the grocery store for a day but you cannot really avoid it completely. There are many companies who are involved in supplying the daily commodities and packaged goods for consumers. These firms cannot afford to shut down because of two reasons. The primary reason is that it will cause a great loss to the business. The other reason is people are in more need of such basic commodities in this hard time. 

In such times, WordPress themes making companies, digital marketing firms and the entire IT-Sector should focus on how they can utilize their resources for improving their clientele. They should focus on the conversion of new clients. As far as theme making companies are concerned, they should make WordPress premium templates and themes that can be useful for companies that require much-needed promotion on a global platform so that people across the world should know about the critical services they are providing and how will these services help them to get relief in this situation of emergency. 

Now coming to Digital Marketing Agencies; such marketing firms must focus on providing more helpful articles and push more content that would be beneficial for people as this will help to maintain the traffic on your web page by engaging them to read the useful information and articles that you are sharing.

How You Can Contribute As an Organization to Help People Fight CoronaVirus?

In this alarming situation caused due to CoronaVirus, it is not just the duty of health officials to work for the affected area of society, but as an organization, you can also play your part effectively. As a theme maker, you can effectively use your themes for WordPress to design web pages that promote blogs about preventive measures and health advisory issued in the public interest by medical organizations and WHO. You can also come up with articles that are helpful to get an overview of the Pandemic. 

Not just this, you can also lead by an example by implementing all the measures that are advised to be followed to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. 

According to experts, these are a few tips to prevent the infection.

1. Washing Hands Often Can be the First Line of Defence

Washing your hands thoroughly using soap is one of the most important things that you can practice to prevent the infection. Be sure to scrub every part of your hands and fingers including the fingertips and area in between your fingers. As viral particles on your hands and fingertips can get transmitted to other people, make sure that your scrub them and wash them thoroughly. If you don’t find a sink near you or in situations where it is just not possible to get your hands under the tap every now and then, use a hand sanitizer that has at least 60% alcohol content.

2. Not Feeling Well; Stay Home              

If you have symptoms of common cold and flu but otherwise are a healthy person with hardly any underlying medical condition or previous ailment, then you should stay home. Whenever and wherever possible, isolate yourself so that your family members don’t catch the symptoms. If you are working and experiencing such symptoms, it is better to stay back at home and work.

3. Cover Your Mouth While Coughing and Sneezing

Always remember the cough and sneeze etiquette. Cover your mouth with a tissue paper or handkerchief while coughing or sneezing. And immediately wash your hands.

4. Avoid Crowded Places and Direct Contact

Though it is unusual for us to stay away from public places, you should avoid visiting crowded places such as markets, public gatherings, theatres, etc. avoid going to gyms for a few weeks. Instead of using public transport, use your own vehicles for plying. This is one of the easiest ways to prevent germs and spread of the virus. Avoid direct contact such as hugging, handshakes, high-fives, etc. If you have people around you, maintain at least an arm’s length distance.

Will all these measures taken, we hope positively that this alarming situation may pass soon without causing more harm and loss.