Roxy Jacenko says her other businesses are surviving after her main company Sweaty Betty PR lost 85 per cent of its clients
Roxy Jacenko has revealed her once-lucrative PR enterprise has taken a significant economic hit due to COVID-19, having lost 85 per cent of her clients in three days.
Despite making drastic plans to sell her luxury goods to stay afloat, the 39-year-old publicist is grateful she ‘diversified’ her company before coronavirus hit.
Roxy says her three other media agencies are continuing to serve different areas of the communication sector while her main company, Sweaty Betty PR, struggles.
Economic downturn: Roxy Jacenko has revealed her once-lucrative PR enterprise has taken a significant economic hit due to COVID-19, having lost 85 per cent of her clients in three days
‘Fortunately, we diversified and added other arms to my group of companies well before COVID-19 hit,’ Roxy told told bandt on Wednesday.
Roxy had previously launched Chinese communication agency 18Communications, which allowed better communication between Australian businesses and Chinese consumers through popular messaging app WeChat and social media app Weibo.
She also has an online influencer agency called The Ministry of Talent and a social media content creation agency called Social Union.
Struggling: Roxy has revealed her once-lucrative PR enterprise has taken a significant economic hit amid COVID-19, having lost 85 per cent of her business in three days
‘Now the focus is to make sure we continue to grow these companies whilst we look at options for Sweaty Betty PR in the short term,’ Jacenko said.
As well as her media agencies, Roxy sells hair accessories under her own name, as well as thriving business ventures with her eight-year-old daughter Pixie Curtis and five-year-old son Hunter, who both also have accessory lines.
The mother-of-two plans to split her time between these media agencies and her online branding course, which she co-founded with Mamamia’s Mia Freedman.
Not giving up: Despite making drastic plans to sell her luxury goods to stay afloat, the 39-year-old publicist is grateful she ‘diversified’ her company before coronavirus hit, which would still be bringing in revenue for the Jacenko clan
It comes after Roxy revealed she was prepared to sell her Hermès Birkin collection and Aston Martin just to make ends meet.
She told Daily Mail Australia: ‘I have realised in my past 12 days of isolation, along with seeing my first agency [Sweaty Betty PR] near collapse, that my sanity and stability is more important to me than another Hermès Birkin bag or an Aston Martin.’
Like many others, Roxy has been struggling to make sense of everything that has been happening around the world lately.
Business savvy: Roxy listed three seperate media agencies, servicing different areas of the communication sector, that she has in her self-made empire, as well as her lucrative accessory lines
‘I think it was pure shock watching something you started from nothing crumble in 72 hours,’ she said of Sweaty Betty PR’s dramatic downfall this week.
The mother-of-two is now working ‘with a very reduced number of clients’ after letting four staff members go.
As of Wednesday morning, there are 4,711 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia, including 20 deaths.
‘It was pure shock’: Like many others, Roxy has been struggling to make sense of everything that has been happening around the world lately
As of Wednesday morning, there are 4,711 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia, including 20 deaths