Still Creating During a Pandemic
It’s hard to believe I have only left my home twice in about six weeks. All of Indermaur Media’s new projects have been postponed until further notice. Or until I figure out how to produce a photography and video project through Zoom. Though we continue to work on a multimedia project’s post-production and also brainstorming future projects. I have focused on the business clients of Visual Thrive, the media, and marketing company Lori Giuttari, and I began over a year ago. Our team focuses on social media marketing and website development and design. I am sharing what Visual Thrive recently released about the focus of our work these days.
Like you, Visual Thrive has sent our staff home to work remotely until further notice. We knew we had to remain engaged as we began to serve our clients in ways we had never served them before. We created a ton of content and wrote communications for them and supported their new way of operating as a partner, in the best way we knew how.
And we listened. We are all holding hands and tiptoeing into a new world. We need to figure out how we not only weather this strange new world but find our way out of it successfully. Again, it’s both sides of the same coin: staying in business and staying sane.
Being of service to our clients and other businesses meant answering some questions. What do our businesses need? What can we do? How can we keep employees engaged (and paid)? How do we reroute our neighbors from Amazon and let them know what’s open in their neighborhood? The result:
RI Thrives - Searchable Online Community To Support Local Small Businesses
As website developers, we created RIThrives.com. A searchable community for RI businesses that are offering delivery, take-out, curbside pick-up, online ordering, professional services, or online classes. Please share it.
RI Thrives is also a FaceBook group where businesses can network, ask questions, and most importantly, share success stories! Please share it.
Visual Thrive has been asked to join Rhode Island’s Lt. Governor Dan McKee’s small business team focused on supporting and shepherding businesses with their #GiftItForward program. We are excited to share our knowledge and partner with other like-minded companies.
This effort is growing and will begin to include government resources for business, and the development of a longer-term strategy and a voice for RI small businesses.
Maintaining an “abundance mindset” is a way we can continue to help each other stay the course. Indermaur Media and Visual Thrive will continue to operate and align with this quintessential value: “There will always be enough.” And we intend to support each other to stay in this lane.
We know this isn’t always easy! Indermaur Media looks forward to creating and working with you on your future projects. Please contact me if you have any plans you want to brainstorm. We wish you all an abundant and healthy season.