Holiday is coming! Holiday is coming! No more harsh beating! This is one of the happiest seasons of pupils, students, parents, civil workers and most especially business owners. It is a season which decide what you actually want to earn as a business owner because people seems to be at home and thus they won't be going out but coming directly to your shop or company.
As this may be part of what could make your company great earnings such again could make you close down your years of company. The only basic remedy to this is great planning and preparation. Planning and preparation is the key functions and must-do for any business or corporate body. If you prepare well for the holiday season, you don't need to spark your medulla in money making. Holiday seasons could be a cool way of adding more asset to the fore-existing ones you've own.
Now, how can you really prepare for such moments, how can you plan for the holiday seasons. Do you have an enriching business which you wish it could reach its peak in this holiday season? Are you looking for better tactics to use in this coming holiday season? Read through and get these basic 6 ways to prepare your business for the holiday seasons.
The seasonal festival like new year, summer and winter, religious festival like Christmas and Eids, notable holidays and cultural festival could be the best target for you and the first way I will advice you to follow is;
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1. Maximize your holiday discount
One of the ways you could compliment the coming Christmas or Sallah festival is to shout the discount and promo out. One of the notable driving school which I've known does every seasonal promo by changing the price of trainings from #21, 000 to #13,000 which gives people the ability to get access to the training at low discount.
Plan on the amount you are deducting. For boutique business owners, you could plan campaign tag 'buy three shirts get one free'. It will make your potential customers and seasonal consumers feel happy and thirst for more!
2. Decoration speaks a lot
Yes! Furnish that season with pure and distinctions of decó. For e-marketers you can sparkle your website with the brightest piece of themes and images, let people know that you are existing and they could suggest your business to others. For restaurant business owners, your doors, inner/front view must tell people the season with high beautification!
3. Send cards and gifts
Surprise your past and current clients and customers by sending them gifts and cards in person. Since you have their document, gather their details and let your surprise knock their doors, it is the greatest sign of appreciation and compliment of patronage at such holiday season. The reason for this is that, it makes them come the more because you appreciated that of the other days.
4. Your employees must be happy
Most times business owners keep gaceting and focusing on the customers while leaving their workers and employees in sad mood. Make your employees feel happy in the holiday seasons. Pay their salary or wages on time, compliment their flaws, don't shout at them, don't frustrate them with killing task. You don't need to be strict all times, no matter how fiercely you are always. I'm advising you to ease your temper in the holiday season. Let your employees be happy at such season. Let them see the impact of New year in your life! It is the basic of good service rendered by them.
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5. Maintain high focus of accounting
No matter how hard it is or how easy it might be. The momentum of reviewing your account of the day must always be distinct from that of answering the customers. My ex-boss would always tell me to keep all records till after five. Do you know why? Our business always welcome high numbers of customers in the morning till evening, so around 5:30pm it always seems boring and that is the best time to account for the day.
Holiday season always inhabit vast numbers of people to savour your products, so while they are in, you must avoid counting your income in their presence instead, sell first and account after five. Taking this strict preparation before holiday seasons and times could be very productive and money-making times.
6. Plan your marketing strategy
For any business outside; you need to plan on how you will market your product in the holiday hours! Advertisements and public bonanza announcement could be very productive and informative. Try them out, online media, social networks advert could best service your product. So plan them now before the holiday season comes.
Conclusively; I think you've have my available six ways to prepare your business for the holiday seasons. If you can try them out, you might be the next celebrated entrepreneur! Wish to hear your good news soonest.
Best regards!