With global Corona cases well over half a million a day, we can safely say that we are heading for a rough couple of next months. Obviously, we are hoping for better, but at Elektor, we are even planning for another 6 months of semi lockdowns. We believe that until the summer of 2021 our daily lives will be affected in a major way. 
 
We did not foresee this long period when we launched the Elektor Helps during the first wave of Corona. Our program to focus on our key stakeholders to overcome at least some of the negative effects of the current situation was initiated at the end of April 2020 and today we decided to continue moving forward. Elektor Helps focuses on readers and members, at our suppliers, and at our clients. We offer a wide range of options, from free access to our content for people in lockdown to joint promotions in our online stores, and from promoting helpful projects and initiatives to creative or even free promotional activities for companies in our industry that are hit hard. 
 
So, we are continuing the program and we will take all our learning of these past crazy months with us to make it even more successful this time around.

Elektor helps Members 2.0

As of November 2020, we will supply more free green (digital) memberships in areas in the world where either shipping policies or even lockdowns prevent people to be able to go to a newsstand or even receive mail. Obviously, our first concern is for members in those areas, but we feel we can motivate many more like-minded engineers and pro-makers by offering some inspiration during the long days of being indoors. 
 

Elektor helps Suppliers 2.0

During the first wave, we were able to turn a huge sales drop in our stores into a big plus by teaming up with our suppliers. Together we have proven to be able to turn slow-moving stock into much-needed cash. During the holiday season and going into the first months of the year we will launch another webshop campaign with our partners.
The main condition is that any offer we have brings a smile to our audience by being 'never expensive and always surprising'. We have some very nice and even groundbreaking new campaigns we are working on and we cannot wait to see the response!
 

Elektor helps Clients 2.0

We can guarantee all our clients that we can always find a solution. We have done so this year in many ways already and we will continue to do so by being both flexible and creative. Those to us are the key ingredients to maintain a healthy and solid relation in these times, nobody benefits from pointing at obligations or fixed formats. We even have launched initiatives where we have offered advertising space or access to our platforms completely free of charge because we just saw a great fit, and just wanted to look at the bigger picture. 
Our expanded team is ready for you and with the wide range of options Elektor has to offer we are not afraid to guarantee that we will indeed 'always make it work'.
 
We are proud to have worked with so many of our stakeholders over these past months. What is more; we could not be happier that we have been able to do so by making it worthwhile and beneficial for all involved. It has been a wonderful mix of solidarity and opportunity that that became more than we could have anticipated, and we will continue to facilitate for as long as it's needed because with the right focus we can beat this virus together.