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The Secret To Repeating The Christmas Spike In Sales All Year Round by ponana(m): 4:18am On Dec 07, 2015
The glittering light and sparkling decoration that gets your customers excited are back again this year’s Christmas. Virtually all business owners look forward to milking the happinesses season for the good faith that it treats them to with a multitude of foot traffic into their business premises. Prospective buyers, Old customers and even window shoppers alike all tread through your outlets. This brings so much joy just thinking about the increase in sales this would translate to. Some business owners even look at December as the period to meet up their annual target. Even prospects come in window shopping and they eventually leave after contributing their quota to the profitability of your business

With all of this merriment and impressive profits making, how come this spectacle is only limited to the end of year celebrations? Same businesses that was booming with activities during Christmas like a full flowing river starts experiencing  a dull ambience as soon as the holidays end. Sales drop and meeting up with sales targets becomes a helluva job. Does this in any way sounds familiar to you?

This drop can be traced to the fact that customers just stop coming around. After the celebrations, people start getting a filled day tending to their responsibilities. Between work, family responsibilities, social calls and other personal activities, your hitherto excited customers and passersby are now busy leaving their daily lives.

Even though we know individuals still need to meet their needs, everybody mostly go for the closest options or alternatives that come to their mind. We usually commit ourselves to settling our desires by subscribing to the businesses that have been able to sieve through their cumbersome schedule to achieve top-of-mind awareness with us. These are businesses that have been able to create an impression so strong that people would cut through all the clutter just to achieve their desires with them not businesses waiting for Santa to always bring goodies their way.

Getting a steady flow of business regardless of the time of the year would require you to be able to reach out to people that have one time or another walked through your business premises. The fact that they came into your business amidst all other qualifies them as possible source of revenue for your business. Just so you can create a lasting seal of confidence on your audience that would keep urging them to always come back for more business, you need to have systems in place that would allow you constantly reaching out to such individuals. This is the key to keep impressing them and reminding them of the wonderful time they had when they visited your place of business during the Christmas.

Activities such as discount sales, promo giveaways and end-of-year bonus are some of the means through which customer contact details are best collated. Organizing promo giveaways based on submission of entries, using individual email addresses as the distinct factor or putting discount sales on the business website as a means to improve awareness for the website while also making it easy to employ ad remarketing techniques are some of the few ways of setting up a system to ensure that the business gets more than enough data to sustain it through the coming business year.

I am quite certain you are already thinking of ways to maximize your preplanned marketing activities for the Christmas season. Feel free to share some other ways you believe businesses can better gain more and better their profitability by capitalizing on the sales spikes during this period of celebrations

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