• Instructions: Read the attached articles:
• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-small-business-owners-made-their-dreams-come-true-then-coronavirus-hit-2020-03-21
• https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2020/03/13/covid-19-response
• https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/black-button-shifts-from-gin-to-germicide/Content?oid=11564449
• Required: Find other articles that you can find on the news and attach it to your assignment. Answer the following questions:
• 1) how Coronavirus is affecting small businesses.
• 2) What are they doing to stay open and how are they marketing themselves to their customers at a time like this?
• 3) What is the biggest obstacle that small businesses are facing now?
• 4) Find an example of a local small business (such as Black Button Distillery in Rochester, NY - article above) that is currently promoting at a time like this and what is it that they are promoting. Tell me why you think they are doing this?
• 5) What do you think the general public will do, continue to support big corporations or small businesses after this pandemic ends (hopefully it will end soon)?