dealing with high and low of business activities

[dereksbicycles]

Ok. I know a lot of people get steady salary working at Target. I would like to know about people who may have a lot of business at one time and so little at other time.

Few examples:

A. Person who owns construction business may get a lot of jobs in summer and little in winter.

B. Person who does well selling at outdoor flea market may get a lot of sales in summer. None in winter.

C. Many stores that are open during tourist season may succeed, but will hardly get any business when school starts.

I know many of you have jobs like this. How do you deal with it? If given choice, would you try to get a lot of business during the peak time to make up for the "down" time? Or would you figure to not correbrate the peak and "down" time? Figure you will find something else to do during "down" time to make up for slow time. Don't worry about having to make soooooo many sales that you need to cover for "down" time?

 

[Grummer]

AH, cyclic and seasonal businesses, not much you can do, but be clever to have a side business, for instance for a ski-resort, give discounts, and have an arrangements to a local or not too distant white-water rafting businesses for adventure-seekers,
these kinds of innovations, and broadening out helps. I only did hospitality and tourism so i dont know the various examples and whats-to-do's for other types of businesses...
but
i can suggest you
google
cyclic and /or seasonal cycles of business, and
maybe

google tactics to seasonal business, hell even seasonal sales, or seasonal hospitality...


and you might find something useful...

 

[dereksbicycles]

AH, cyclic and seasonal businesses, not much you can do, but be clever to have a side business, for instance for a ski-resort, give discounts, and have an arrangements to a local or not too distant white-water rafting businesses for adventure-seekers,
these kinds of innovations, and broadening out helps. I only did hospitality and tourism so i dont know the various examples and whats-to-do's for other types of businesses...
but
i can suggest you
google
cyclic and /or seasonal cycles of business, and
maybe

google tactics to seasonal business, hell even seasonal sales, or seasonal hospitality...


and you might find something useful...

Thank you very much for those valuable ideas. There are so much that we should be looking out for and do not look out for them. If more businesses would do that, there would not be so many failures.

 

[NitroHonda]

Ok. I know a lot of people get steady salary working at Target. I would like to know about people who may have a lot of business at one time and so little at other time.

Few examples:

A. Person who owns construction business may get a lot of jobs in summer and little in winter.

I know many of you have jobs like this. How do you deal with it? If given choice, would you try to get a lot of business during the peak time to make up for the "down" time? Or would you figure to not correbrate the peak and "down" time? Figure you will find something else to do during "down" time to make up for slow time. Don't worry about having to make soooooo many sales that you need to cover for "down" time?

I schedule indoor jobs for the winter. I was able to do that with a few jobs last summer. It definitely helped us stay afloat but business didn't slow down all that much. I have about another week before it kicks in gear. I'm lucky to live in Texas where this isn't as much of a problem it is for companies in snow regions. Companies like mine are generally open year round down here but they shut down for the winter up north.

 

[goodonya]

I have seen up here where the summer season it is happening and a drive in restaraunt that hires local teenagers and has a great location, they work like crazy selling burgers and fries and soft drinks.
All summer busy and then winter? The place shuts down completely and the owners take off to Hawaii and relax and play all winter. Great payoff for everyone really.