Pandemic creates challenges for those launching a business

Pandemic creates challenges for those launching a business

Up next./// the coronavirus pandemic has created a new and unique set of challenges for all of us.

This holds especially true for those hoping to launch a new business.

???t news three's kaleb gillock?

Is finding out just how difficult it really is.

Xxx katie and george?

I spoke with an entrrpreneur this afternoon who unfortunately had to close her photography business during the coronavirus outbreak.

But now she's turning to her natural gift of handwriting... hoping to spread hope while earning a little cash.

Xxx i don't know what to expect.

I feel like i've owned my photography business for 10 years so i know what to expect... this i have no idea what to expect.

Meet michelle stricker... a wife and mother of two forced to temporarily close the doors of her cedar falls photography business.

With no pictures to take?

She needed an alternative.

The solution was simple.

I feel like i am put on this earth to make a difference and it just came to me to use my handwriting to make little messages.

Given her fantastic penmanship... it was a no brainer to create what is now known as a smack pack.

It's a bundle of 100 cards to spread messages of affirmation?

Compassio?

And kindness.

With a new amount of free time on her hands... she created a facebook page and website and the orders began to flow in from all over the country.

Florida, texas, wisconsin, kansas, missouri, minnesota orders are now pr?order only because as one would assume?

There have been chalenges along the way.

It was important to me that i found the perfect little boxes for these cards to go into and i found a company but everything is running slower than normal so you know they don't have as many workers in their company that are making these custom boxes for me.

Stricker has also found an upside during these unusual times... the printer that i'm using here in town in cedar falls?

They're slower right now because they're used to doing so much for the university of northern iowa as the new business takes off?

Stricker says it does her heart good seeing how these messages are being shared.

I'll tell you a lot of the time it brings me to tears.

I have a video of a older sister lifting her and here in the med city?

We most definitely appreciate what our healthcare workers do.

Take a look at this photo behind me.

Michelle and her kids placed a note on every workers' car at a hospital.

Thank you kaleb.

There are five different types of smack packs for: kids?

Work?

Faith fitness?