For the past 7 months, this show has been all about China and the amazing opportunities that lie in wait for companies willing to put in the work to be successful there. China’s business landscape and culture have been our bread and butter, it’s what this show has been built upon, and because of that, we need to talk about the tragic events that have been happening there over the last month due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus. The past month has been a difficult one for China and those impacted by the Coronavirus. We at The Negotiation and WPIC Marketing + Technologies have been impacted as well, and our hearts go out to our colleagues, friends, and loved ones that are suffering from the impact of this terrible virus. Our prayers go out to all of you and anyone listening who may have a loved one who has contracted the virus and we wish them and everyone a speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with you now and will be with you through every subsequent episode until this tragedy has been put behind us.

That said the show must go on, as they say, so with a heavy heart we’ve asked our helmsman Jacob Cooke, CoFounder, and CEO of WPIC Marketing + Technologies, if he would be kind enough to jump on for a quick discussion about the online and offline commercial landscape due to the Coronavirus outbreak, what the data is showing us given much of the country is shut-in or closed for the time being, and what companies can be doing in the meantime to be prepared for the chapter that follows this one.

Again, to everyone impacted by the Coronavirus outbreak out thoughts and prayers are with you.