Things to Do When Business isn't Brisk:- Revamp your Business Plan
- Refresh your marketing research
- Analyze your competitors
- Conduct client focus groups
- Create your post-recession marketing plan
- Pull out your "Bring Forward File"
- Network
- Cold Call
- Attend Professional Development events and workshops
- Bring in a sales trainer for ALL of your staff (reception through to CEO!)
- Clean up databases (not that you EVER let them slip...)
- Create/update educational documents for your clients
- Purge! Your desk, cupboards, shelves, filing cabinet
- Clean up your electronic files while you're at it, and your Internet Favourites
- Catch up on holidays
- Go to the gym on your lunch break (take a lunch break for a change!)
- Launch a Blog ;-)
Have good employees you can't keep busy but don't want to lose?- Sales Training
- Customer Service Refresher Training
- Offer all staff commissions on sales
- Offer them a one-time bonus week of holidays
- Offer a summer leave of absence
- Propose a 4-day work-week
- Consider a 2-week summer shutdown
I will update this list as new ideas come forward.
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