During the pandemic, the client had nothing to only a very few jobs that came in. Getting a project from either the government or private sector was hard, competition was tight.
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm!"
The client visited the SBDC office a couple of times to seek guidance on how he can prepare his company's bid documents to be submitted to different department/division of the American Samoa Government.
The client was able to secure quite a number of projects: Architectural/Building Designs, Remodeling of various offices, etc.
Slow customer traffic during off-season but high to enormous demand during peak season (Mother's Day, School Graduation months, White Sunday Celebration, Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays).
"Thank you SBDC for always being there to assist us in all our business queries. Your guidance helped our small sewing shop grow."
Gave our all-out support to the client on how to attract more customers during the "low-season"; identifying their target market and determining their ideal customers—by word of mouth, social media exposure, etc...As well as advised the client to concentrate on making ready-to-wear clothing during the slow months and sell those during the peak season—to keep up with the growing demand of RTW clothing.
Though at times slow, the sewing shop surely never run dry. Elina Sewing Shop had a steady flow of revenue during the "slow months" and gets quite hefty of a revenue on the peak months.