Otros recursos COVID-19

A medida que evolucionan los desarrollos en respuesta a la propagación de COVID-19, sabemos que muchas pequeñas empresas tienen preguntas sobre las implicaciones dentro del lugar de trabajo, y las opciones de financiación que ayuden a impulsar sus negocios durante este momento difícil. En esta página estamos recopilando consejos y recursos relevantes como desempleo, licencia familiar remunerada, licencia por enfermedad remunerada, atención médica y más.

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Financial planning
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Lendio

Building a Cash Reserve for Your Business

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of saving money for a rainy day. While thousands of small businesses closed permanently in the spring of 2020, the ones that had cash reserves on hand for emergencies fared much better—especially considering the hurdles and delays that came with government aid like the Paycheck Protection Program. It shouldn’t have taken a global pandemic for small businesses to see the value of having a cash reserve, but nonetheless, many owners are now more aware of the importance of financial stability. Having cash reserves available can help you cover rent, utilities, and other common expenses until you’re operational again.

Taking steps to put away money isn’t easy, but it is important. Follow the steps below to build a cash reserve for your business. 

Audience: Small Business Owners

Pivoting your business
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Worth

Pivoting Your Small Business Model to Survive the COVID-19 Crisis

The world is changing rapidly, but (flexible) planning is still important. Small business owners should be engaging in strategic planning that weighs different business and economic scenarios over the next two weeks, two months and six months. Since this pandemic emerged, it has changed our social and economic world on a daily basis. Make a plan, but plan for different scenarios and consider conducting a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis and a Threats, Opportunities, Weaknesses and Strengths (TOWS) matrix (examples below) to help you strategically plan during this time. 

Audience: Small Business Owners

Pivoting your business
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Business.com

Pivoting Your Business in Response to COVID-19

All good pivots start with great questions. There are three business model aspects you should explore when deciding on potential pivots.

  • Value proposition: What value do you deliver with your product or service?
  • Value networks: How do you deliver and monetize your product or service?
  • Target customers: Who receives and benefits from what you provide?

Audience: Small Business Owners, Non-profits

Pivoting your business
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Pursuit

How Businesses are Pivoting

Don’t hesitate to call everyone you owe money to. Be honest and upfront. Ask your lender for a deferment or your landlord for a temporary hold on lease payments. Call your vendors. Ask them to be more flexible in their payment terms. Don’t carry this burden alone. Be honest with your employees and let them know what you’re going through. Tell them you’re fighting every day and have a plan to get through this.

Audience: Small Business Owners

Pivoting your business
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Gannett Co., Inc

Shifting the Business to a New Strategy

Things to consider: Altering the process to deliver your product or service, changing how revenue is generated, developing a new product or product line and targeting different market segments.

Audience: Small Business Owners

Access to Capital
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Small Business Majority

Consejos para encontrar financiación y evitar préstamos predatorios durante COVID-19

Con los cierres de estados y cierres de negocios obligatorios por el estado, los propietarios de pequeñas empresas de todo el país están luchando para pagar lo nomina de sus empleados, alquileres comerciales, gastos generales y más. Ahora más que nunca, es importante estar alerta de los prestamistas abusivos a medida que usted busca capital para mantener su empresa a flote. Nuestra guía para evitar préstamos abusivos incluye pautas para solicitar PPP y EIDL, una lista de verificación para determinar si un préstamo es predatorio y un resumen de la Declaración de Derechos de los Prestatarios de Pequeñas Empresas.

Este documento ha sido traducido al Chino, Vietnamita, Coreano, Birmano, Jemer, Hmong, Bangladesí, Nepalí, Butanés, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Tailandés, Lao, Tagalo, Samoano, Tongano y Marshalés en colaboración con National Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans Community Development con una subvención de la Fundación Ewing Marion Kauffman.

Audience: Small Business Owners, Self-employed, Non-profits

Paid sick days, Staying safe
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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA)

New Tax Credits

This law provides small and midsize employers refundable tax credits that reimburse them for the cost of providing paid sick and family leave wages to their employees for leave related to COVID-19. 

Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees, Non-profits

Tax and liability
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Employee Retention Credit: The CARES Act

Tax Credit For Required Leave

This is a refundable tax credit for employers whose businesses were suspended due to a shutdown order or whose gross receipts dropped by more than 50 percent over the same time period last year. The credit is worth 50 percent of payrolls paid between March 13-December 31, 2020, up to a maximum of $10,000.

Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees, Non-profits

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Bridgespan

Bridgespan Covid-19 Resources for Nonprofits

Bridgespan provides consulting to nonprofits and philanthropists, leadership development support, and developing and sharing insights, has created resources around the crisis specifically geared toward the nonprofit sector. 

Audience: Non-profits

Selling online
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eBay

Grow online with eBay

Register for a free eBay business account, and get access to benefits that make growing your business online easier than anywhere else, including:

  • Zero listing fees on up to 200 listings per month.* Pay only when you sell.
  • Powerful selling tools and insights.
  • Access to eBay’s 185 million buyers worldwide.
  • Virtual learning and development opportunities.
  • Real-time advice and inspiration from fellow sellers and eBay staff in eBay Community.


Audience: Small Business Owners, Self-employed, Non-profits