You can get COVID-19 by touching a surface informs CDC

Feb 26, 2020 | Get Help, Launch Your Web Store, WholeSale Companies

You can get COVID-19 by touching a surface informs CDC

You can get COVID-19 by touching a surface that has the Coronavirus on it and then touching your own mouth, nose, or eyes. However the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not think this is the main way the Coronavirus spreads.

CNN has reported more and more hair re-sellers face a shortage or at least higher prices for the human hair they import from China. Production is still below the regular level and on top of this the uncertainty in the market leads to lower demand.
This is often a combination between lower spending power for the consumers because many countries are at the brick of recession due to the Coronavirus outbreak. And, less demand as clients fear they will get COVID-19 or Coronavirus by touching the packaging or the hair.

Please read the latest information available about the spreading of the Coronavirus and what you can do to protect yourself and your clients. Use this information to take well informed business decisions to protect your business too.

Now (February 25th, 2020) no vaccine is available according to the American Health Organizations, like CDC, thus the best way to protect yourself is to avoid you will get COVID-19.
The outbreak or spreading of respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus, or official named COVID-19, is now not active in China but has now been detected in 37 locations internationally, including cases in the United States.

Where does the Coronavirus comes from and how does it spread?

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats. Rarely, animal coronaviruses can infect people and then spread between people such as with MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and now with this new virus (named SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19).

The COVID-19 virus is a betacoronavirus, like MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. All three of these viruses have their origins in bats. The sequences from U.S. patients are like the one that China initially posted, suggesting a likely single, recent emergence of this virus from an animal reservoir.

Early on, many of the patients in the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China had some link to a large seafood and live animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. Later, a growing number of patients reportedly did not have exposure to animal markets, indicating person-to-person spread. Person-to-person spread has been reported outside China, including in the United States and other locations. Chinese officials report that sustained person-to-person spread in the community is occurring in China. In addition, other destinations have apparent community spread, meaning some people have been infected who are not sure how or where they became infected.

Illness Severity, including illness resulting in death

Both MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV have been known to cause severe illness in people. The complete clinical picture regarding COVID-19 is not fully understood. Reported illnesses have ranged from mild to severe, including illness resulting in death. There are ongoing investigations to learn more.

Risk Assessment to avoid you get COVID-19

Outbreaks of novel virus infections among people are always of public health concern. The risk from these outbreaks depends on characteristics of the virus, including how well it spreads between people, the severity of resulting illness, and the medical or other measures available to control the impact of the virus (for example, vaccine or treatment medications). The fact that this disease has caused illness, including illness resulting in death, and sustained person-to-person spread is concerning. These factors meet two of the criteria of a pandemic. As community spread is detected in more and more countries, the world moves closer toward meeting the third criteria, worldwide spread of the new virus.

The potential public health threat posed by COVID-19 is high, both globally and to the United States. But individual risk is dependent on exposure.

It’s important to note that current global circumstances suggest it is likely that this virus will cause a pandemic. In that case, the risk assessment would be different.

What May Happen

More cases are likely to be identified in the days after February 25th, 2020, including more cases in the United States. It’s also likely that person-to-person spread will continue to occur, including in the United States. Widespread transmission of COVID-19 in the United States would translate into large numbers of people needing medical care at the same time. Schools, childcare centers, workplaces, and other places for mass gatherings may experience more absenteeism. Public health and healthcare systems may become overloaded, with elevated rates of hospitalizations and deaths. Other critical infrastructure, such as law enforcement, emergency medical services, and transportation industry may also be affected. Health care providers and hospitals may be overwhelmed.

No vaccine to protect against Coronavirus

At this time, there is no vaccine to protect against COVID-19 and no medications approved to treat it. Nonpharmaceutical interventions would be the most important response strategy.

CDC Recommends

While the immediate risk of this new virus to the American public is believed to be low at this time, everyone can do their part to help us respond to this emerging public health threat:

It’s currently flu and respiratory disease season and CDC recommends getting a flu vaccine, taking everyday preventive actions to help stop the spread of germs, and taking flu antivirals if prescribed.
If you are a healthcare provider, be on the look-out for people who recently traveled from China and have fever and respiratory symptoms.
If you are a healthcare provider caring for a COVID-19 patient or a public health responder, please take care of yourself and follow recommended infection control procedures.
If you have been in China or have been exposed to someone sick with COVID-19 in the last 14 days, you will face some limitations on your movement and activity. Please follow instructions during this time. Your cooperation is integral to the ongoing public health response to try to slow spread of this virus. If you develop COVID-19 symptoms, contact your healthcare provider, and tell them about your symptoms and your travel or exposure to a COVID-19 patient.

For people who are ill with COVID-19, please follow CDC guidance on how to reduce the risk of spreading your illness to others.

How COVID-19 Spreads

Current understanding about how the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads is largely based on what is known about similar coronaviruses.

Person-to-person spread

The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.

Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet)
Via respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.

Spread from contact with infected surfaces or objects

It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

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When does spread happen?

People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest).
Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms; there have been reports of this with this new coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

How efficiently does the virus spread?

How easily a virus spreads from person-to-person can vary. Some viruses are highly contagious (like measles), while other viruses are less so. Another factor is whether the spread continues over multiple generations of people (if spread is sustained). The virus that causes COVID-19 seems to be spreading easily and sustainably in Hubei province and other parts of China. In the United States, spread from person-to-person has occurred only among a few close contacts and has not spread any further to date.

There is still more to be learned

COVID-19 is an emerging disease and there is more to learn about its transmissibility, severity, and other features

What are you doing to avoid to get COVID-19?

Let me hear in the comments below how you deal with this kind of crisis, or with the Wuhan Coronavirus crisis specifically.

COVID-19 dies within a couple of hours but travels through bathroom pipes!

Feb 12, 2020 | Get Help

Coronavirus or COVID-19 dies within a few hours!

The coronavirus, or COVID-19, on a surface will die within a few hours or more. This is the latest update from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Every day more victims. Today the death toll surpassed the 1,100, and over 45,000 confirmed cases. But also, more information comes available about the spreading of the coronavirus. The coronavirus or COVID-19 as it is called now, so no reference to Wuhan anymore. This COVID-19 is an acronym: CO stands for corona, VI stands for virus, D for disease. The 19 refers to 2019.

“It is still not known how long the COVID-19 virus survives on surfaces, although preliminary information suggests the virus may survive a few hours or more. Simple disinfectants can kill the virus making it no longer possible to infect people.” WHO Q&A

Traveling through bathroom pipes

Still there are many questions about how the coronavirus or COVID-19 is spreading. The virus seems to use bathroom pipes in Hong Kong to spread through a building and to infect the neighbors. This condition is different from spreading through a dry surface, like the packaging of hair. Or the hair itself.

The safe way to open a new order of hair.

Based upon the intelligence of the WHO, it is safe to order hair and to touch the packaging without the risk to get sick. But to play safe one can decide to, cleanse the surface of the packaging with a disinfectant and to wait a day before you open the package. In this time the virus will not be active anymore and you can enjoy your new arrival. Consider the hair has been shipped and thus the virus has been on a dry surface for some time already. An extra day plus the cleansing (of the packaging) should give extra comfort. This information you can pass through to your clients.

How to protect yourself and your clients for COVID-19?

The WHO has made a list of suggestions to protect yourself against the coronavirus.

Wash your hands frequently

Wash your hands frequently with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand rub if your hands are not visibly dirty.

Why? Washing your hands with soap and water or using alcohol-based hand rub eliminates the virus if it is on your hands.

Practice respiratory hygiene

When coughing and sneezing, cover mouth and nose with flexed elbow or tissue – discard tissue immediately into a closed bin and clean your hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.

Why? Covering your mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing prevent the spread of germs and viruses. If you sneeze or cough into your hands, you may contaminate objects or people that you touch.

Maintain social distancing

Maintain at least 1 metre (3 feet) distance between yourself and other people, particularly those who are coughing, sneezing and have a fever.

Why? When someone who is infected with a respiratory disease, like 2019-nCoV, coughs or sneezes they project small droplets containing the virus. If you are too close, you can breathe in the virus.

Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth

Why? Hands touch many surfaces which can be contaminated with the virus. If you touch your eyes, nose or mouth with your contaminated hands, you can transfer the virus from the surface to yourself.

If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical care early

Tell your health care provider if you have traveled in an area in China where 2019-nCoV has been reported, or if you have been in close contact with someone with who has traveled from China and has respiratory symptoms.

Why? Whenever you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing it’s important to seek medical attention promptly as this may be due to a respiratory infection or other serious condition. Respiratory symptoms with fever can have a range of causes, and depending on your personal travel history and circumstances, COVID-19 could be one of them.

Practice general hygiene measures

As a general precaution, practice general hygiene measures when visiting live animal markets, wet markets or animal product markets.

Ensure regular hand washing with soap and potable water after touching animals and animal products; avoid touching eyes, nose or mouth with hands; and avoid contact with sick animals or spoiled animal products. Strictly avoid any contact with other animals in the market (e.g., stray cats and dogs, rodents, birds, bats). Avoid contact with potentially contaminated animal waste or fluids on the soil or structures of shops and market facilities.

Avoid consumption of raw or undercooked animal products

Handle raw meat, milk or animal organs with care, to avoid cross-contamination with uncooked foods, as per good food safety practices.

The availability of the hair is still limited

Factories in China are still slowly returning to their normal levels of production and distribution. Because of supply chains that are mostly designed for just in time delivery, that saves expenses because less resources for warehousing are needed. However, in times like this, the low levels of stock hurt many companies at the same time, or shortly after each other.

Check what you can do to stay in business despite COVID-19

Former Hairstylist Jon Peters paid Pamela Andersons debts

Feb 11, 2020 | Make Your Dream Happen

To start a career as hair stylist can make you rich. Hair Stylist Jon Peters paid the debt of his wife and dumped her within 12 days of marriage. The debt was USD 200,000.

Online there is a broad discussion on who dumped who, Jon Peters or his wife Pamela Anderson. But more interesting is to see how Jon made the money, to allow him to pay off these debts.

Jon Peters started doing hair back in the 70’s when he met Barbara Streisand. He was her hair stylist for the comedy For Pete’s Sake, a movie she was working on. He created her wig for that movie. Jon’s family business was hairdressing. After dropping out of school in seventh grade, he moved to New York.

Jon Peters was a self-made hair stylist; some sources refer he had learned the occupation while grooming hair of the women in the New York red light district

He was a lady’s man, and some say that made him the inspiration for Warren Beatty’s movie “Shampoo” about a womanizing hairstylist.

It is true the movies produced and other business activities in the movie industry after he met Barbara Streisand made his real fortune. But it is without any doubt, he only has gotten that far thanks to his career and skills as a hair stylist. The story of Jon Peters shows you can make a good living thanks to the hair business.

In Nigeria You Need a Husband to get Capital to Start Selling Hair

Feb 11, 2020 | Nigeria

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How to Start Selling Hair in Nigeria without a husband?

It started with an app, on a Monday morning. Blessingfearless told me she was ready to start selling hair in Nigeria. She found a great business opportunity that will change the hair market in Nigeria for ever. But she needed a husband to get the capital!

Because that is the way it goes in Nigeria. Men get loans and women must beg. You can have a splendid idea, but if your gender is not male, too bad girl!

But Blessingfearless, as you can see on her Instagram account is full of passion. She really made me fall for the idea too. I wanted to help her, with or without a husband!

The fact is if you want to start selling hair in Nigeria, women are second in line compared to men. The World Bank is fully aware of this. They started to develop programs to support women because Africa will only see major improvement if African women are empowered.

So, I started my quest for capital to help Blessingfearless finding a husband. Sorry, I mean finding a loan.

Why would someone need a husband to start selling hair?

“There is growing global evidence that shows that ensuring economic opportunities for women is an important entry point for addressing gender inequality and ensuring better education, health, and nutrition outcomes for families”. This sentence, in a report of the World Bank, tells the male part of the world that by empowering women the only way up for many areas in the World.

Imagine, the growth of the total economy in Nigeria, that is now around 2.1 percent for, could have been 3.3 percent if gender equality would have been reached. This means the Nigerian economy would grow faster than the US economy under Trump or Obama!

To reach this equality between the sexes quite some regulation has or had to change. Some examples are the law on prohibition of inhumane treatment of widows (2001) in Edo state and the Child Rights Act 2003 in Ogun. Nigeria is in the top ten of countries with the highest levels of gender discrimination!

As small producers and asset holders, Nigerian women have greater difficulty reaching economies of scale, which affects their competitiveness. In other words, Nigerian female entrepreneurs face a lot of difficulties to grow their business. As a result, they have limited bargaining power with suppliers and buyers, restricting their ability to earn profits.

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Time to Change, Empower women

The Nigeria for Women Project

Through the Nigeria for Women Project, a project initiated by the World Bank, 324,000 women will benefit through investments in comprehensive skills training, the leverage of financial and technical resources, and support to policy dialogue on women’s economic empowerment.

This first World Bank-assisted standalone gender operation in Nigeria was approved in June 2018. This also created and strengthen Women Affinity Groups to facilitate social networks and increase women’s voice and participation in the economy.

How to get access to female friendly financing?

Thanks to the above-mentioned movement, there are several initiatives and organisations active to support women empowerment. This helped to change the mindset and inspired several organisations to develop women friendly loan facilities.

FEMFUNDS for women selling hair in Nigeria

Femfunds is a social enterprise that provides interest free and collateral free loans to women-led micro, small and medium enterprises (also called MSMEs) in Nigeria.

They give women with small businesses everything they need to build profitable businesses which in turn creates a cycle of empowered women who go on to empower other women.

The vision of FEMFUNDS is to create sustainable female-led businesses that can contribute in a positive way to the economic development of Nigeria. Thanks to the important role of women in society.
They provide funds, or capital, to enable business to grow, to replicate a business in another location and to provide capital a business needs to survive.

There are various lines to support women, like interest free loans, with no collateral and advisory to female run small businesses, like mentoring, coaching and workshops on branding, marketing and other intellectual resource to help the businesses.

FemFunds promises hassle free financing.

Evaluation criteria

FemFunds follows the next evaluation criteria when evaluating a business in need of capital:

Stage of Business, they look for businesses that are already operational
Sector, FemFunds invests in businesses across sectors
Revenue, FemFunds is interested in businesses that are post-revenue, have a clear pathway to profitability and possess strong growth trajectory
Product Market Fit, FemFunds looks for businesses that will work well in the Nigerian context
Structure, properly structured and where this is not the case, if a business is selected, FemFunds will help the business become better structured
Competitive Advantage, the business should have a clear competitive advantage and a unique value proposition

It is clear, FemFunds offers great financing possibilities, but only if you have the capital to start a business. Blessingfearless has the idea to start selling hair in Nigeria and will not qualify for this program. Let’s continue our search for capital for women with plans to start selling hair in their State.

W Power loan Access Bank if you want to start selling hair in Nigeria

This offer seems to be much more what Blessingfearless needs. Access Bank understands the position women come from. They have set up a financing that answers all their needs if they want to step into business. Within 30 days after opening a corporate bank account, Blessingfearless can apply for the W Power Loan.

The W Power Loan package comes with benefits such as:

business advisory services,
a flexible repayment period
a low interest rate as well as
flexible security options, to ease the minds of the passionate business owners in their own words.

Access bank has taken measures to accommodate women in need of capital to fund their business. On top of this they share some advice, that will be helping you finding a loan from any other bank or organisation.

Understand your business and convince others

Woman are great in organizing, that makes them great entrepreneurs because doing business is all about connections. But sometimes this stand in the way to document the business processes. To get a profitable business you need to be able to understand the environment, the market and the processes. Before you make any appointment with anyone who can give you access to a loan or capital, come up with a business plan.

Your hair business deserves more attention than a side hustle

Microsoft started their business in a garage, and many successful hair businesses started in the living room. If you want to make serious money, you need to take the business serious. Register your business before you apply for a loan. If you do not take your business serious, why would the bank officer do? Some banks can help you with the registration.

Be real, have open a corporate account

Keep your personal financial means separate from your business, do not mix private and business on your bank account. This will also reduce the expenses for the bookkeeping and tax calculations.

Do not ask your husband to do the bookkeeping

Bookkeepers and accountants are not known for their sex appeal, but you need them anyhow. Monitor your business is only possible with a reliable bookkeeping system in place. You can outsource the hard work, but make sure you understand better than your bookkeeper where you make your money and how much! Find a good bookkeeper before you start selling hair in Nigeria.

Join a business community and build your network

It is always good to share your experience with others, join a business community and learn from others. This network can also be of great benefit in times of crisis.

Only borrow what you need

The business plan is the base for the loan or capital request, only borrow the money you need for the business activities. Protect yourself against excess cash, that you must repay later. Use the cash flow forecast in our all-in-one hair business package.

I hope this post will help Blessingfearless, but I will keep my eyes open for more financing possibilities. If you need money for your business or you want a low priced website, leave a comment below so I can help you to find the money,

Do not let the Coronavirus eat your profit!

Feb 1, 2020 | Get Help, Launch Your Web Store, WholeSale Companies

Sales will drop due to Coronavirus regardless the origin of your hair!

There is no more doubt, the Coronavirus will eat the profit of most stores all over the world. The measures to protect the outbreak, the uncertainty and uncontrollable spreading all over the world will slow down the economies and with this your sales too.

Despite the advice from the World Health Organisation, the US and Australia said they would deny entry to all foreign visitors who had recently been in China. Earlier, countries including Russia, Japan, Pakistan and Italy announced similar travel restrictions. The advice from the WHO is to limit the negative economical and health impact of the Coronavirus. But a ban also has a discriminatory impact, people start to avoid people who might be a risk to their health. Even if there is no reason whatsoever. I also think we should in times of crisis help and comfort each other. How difficult this might be because of all the uncertainties.

But all this means on top of lower availability of stock, there is less appetite to buy any new product or good. Less demand for hair and wigs will most probably hit your bottom line this quarter. Less sales and perhaps less profit.

Time for some measures to fight the Coronavirus.

Do not sit still and wait until the virus is gone and we have time to worry about other things. Now it is the best time to react and to fight the virus.

Why will people buy less hair extensions or wigs?

To understand why people will buy less, you must realize economy has everything to do about feeling good. If your client know she will get a salary rise, even before she gets the rise she starts thinking in possibilities. “What if I buy more of this, or what if I redecorate my house, or what if I buy a new wig?” This has helped the healthy economic growth for the last several years. But now this is under pressure due to the Coronavirus. The weird thing is, even if you do not sell hair from Chinese suppliers, or if you are in an area far away from Coronavirus victims, people, will still prefer to keep their hands on the pockets.
If you want to see the proof of this, just check the red figures on the stock markets all over the world. Investors like to buy stock in companies they believe will make more sales and profit in the future. If they expect disappointing sales, they sell the stock and the value will go down.

Also, the CEO’s of major firms like Apple, Starbucks and McDonalds foresee lower growth and reduce operations. This will not only impact the operations in China, but all over the world. Chinese people will travel less and consume less. The Government has placed restrictions on family or group gatherings, while people have less to buy. This again will also influence the import of certain goods.
Overall there is less money to spend, and this will impact the economy all over the world. People will prefer to keep the money in their pocket.

What can you do about it?

As mentioned before, it is important to educate your clients about the risk of the Coronavirus. Or better how limited that risk is, especially for the hair you are selling. This is again an opportunity to show how well experienced you are. So, write a blogpost about the Wuhan Coronavirus in relation to the product you offer. For some background information see my previous blogpost. People are searching the internet for news about the virus, so it will help to be specific and to use the keyword Coronavirus with some terms related to the hair you are selling.

Next to this, see if you can offer some discount coupons. People might hesitate to buy goods they do not see as their first priority. We all know you can fight anything from scary spiders to the Wuhan Coronavirus if only your hair looks gorgeous. A discount might do the trick to seduce your client to still buy the hair. Make sure you put a time limit to the offer, otherwise she will still wait to buy the hair until the virus has been long forgotten.

Organize a hair extensions party with China as your special theme. People will be curious to know more about your hair and about china. The unknown has always been attractive. This way people can talk about their fears and share with each other stories. Make sure you have enough knowledge yourself to answer any question about the Coronavirus or ask somebody with a medical background to support you. You will see, once your guests are feeling relaxed, they will be very fast in the buying mode. And what can they buy? Your beautiful hair!

Leave a comment below to tell me how you are fighting the Coronavirus to keep on selling hair!