Dee Rivera seeks Shirin Movahed for business advice on damage control during #COVID19 #coronavirus

Reaching Out

Dee Rivera, head of DCG Public Relations, held a webinar tonight with legal consultant, Shirin Movahed, on ways for your business to survive during COVID19, which includes solidifying your status between an official business owner, and just one who’s not legit.

Since businesses large and small are feeling the pain of stay-at-home orders, unemployment, and changing habits due to COVID19, leading also to drastic cutbacks at Condé Nast, Shirin reaches out to business owners of all types, advising that freelancers and independent contractors know how to protect themselves by filing themselves as a business so they can apply for benefits available now if they’re impacted by COVID19.

In addition to knowing the legal options and rights you have as an entrepreneur, you must separate your personal assets from your business assets, which means your entrepreneurial status must file as a business to protect yourself from lawsuits by one who’s not happy with your services, or you could lose everything.

One more key takeaway is even though you have a business, you as an individual still can file for unemployment, even if it’s with your own business, where that EIN number you get after you file as a business is gold, it means everything, it’s the biggest defense you have for yourself, and COVID19.

Daniel Quintanilla