{"id":1278,"date":"2020-03-24T17:51:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T17:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T20:39:17","slug":"wbdc-seeks-to-help-south-suburban-entrepreneurs-through-coronavirus-closings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wbdc-seeks-to-help-south-suburban-entrepreneurs-through-coronavirus-closings\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Business Development Center Seeks to Help South Suburban Entrepreneurs Through Coronavirus Closings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0FRANCINE KNOWLES,\u00a0Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n<p>Olympia Fields resident Bianca Robinson is among small and microbusiness owners in the south suburbs feeling the pain from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s watched revenues take a hit at her Flossmoor-based operational management consulting company, Cayden Cay Consulting, which she started in 2012 and grew from roughly $9,000 in revenues her first year to $148,000 last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor most of my clients, we do in-person, two-hour assessments. I have had eight assessments to be canceled so far,\u201d she said. \u201cThose assessments are $1,000 a piece, so I have already lost $8,000 from that alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company, which has one employee and whose clients are other small business owners, also has experienced a significant drop in its online training classes and webinar business. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/daily-southtown\/opinion\/ct-sta-knowles-coronavirus-womens-business-st-0324-20200323-fhlfztboo5bgfmbc3kl6ijeu7m-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0FRANCINE KNOWLES,\u00a0Chicago Tribune Olympia Fields resident Bianca Robinson is among small and microbusiness owners in the south suburbs feeling the pain from the coronavirus. She\u2019s watched revenues take a hit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}