FERGUS – Motivated by a sense of duty and a desire to do what she can to help during COVID-19, Kyra Nankivell has started a web design business that’s geared to helping small businesses in Centre Wellington.
KYRA NANKIVELL
“We saw in the news that so many small businesses were closing,” said Nankivell in a phone interview.
“I started thinking, ‘I’ve done some web design. I know marketing. I could help them do that.’”
Nankivell lives in Fergus and is an industrial engineering student at the University of Toronto.
With a view to the greater good, she and some friends started TAPCOM, a company that can assist business owners with website development.
“We’re all students,” she said of her colleagues, who are attending school in different parts of the world this fall.
“The beauty of web design is that it can be done remotely.”
Nankivell said they intend to continue operating TAPCOM when school resumes.
Centre Wellington Township has established a $50,000 Support Local Centre Wellington grant program to help businesses get back on their feet and Nankivell said her company “can help small businesses apply for the grant to afford web design,” she said.
Grants to a maximum of $3,000 are being distributed to applicants; businesses must contribute half of the value of the grant and demonstrate how the money will be spent as part of their application.
“The ability to offer products or services 24 hours a day without contact is absolutely critical to a business’ success in 2020 and beyond,” she said.
For more information visit www.tapcom.ca, @tapcom.ca on Instagram, and @tapcom on Facebook.
