Have your sales crashed?

[plymgary]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone else found this the slowest summer yet? We usually average around 8 sales a day but we're lucky if we're getting 2 at the moment!

I know there's a lot of factors affecting this at the moment (recession, holidays etc.) but it would be interesting to hear how others are doing.

Gary

 

[NuBlue]

been a really good last two months. Spring was a bit slow but summer seems to be making up for it. August is usually a low point for us so we'll have to wait and see. Overall very happy

 

[plymgary]

been a really good last two months. Spring was a bit slow but summer seems to be making up for it. August is usually a low point for us so we'll have to wait and see. Overall very happy

Good to hear it's not all gloomy out there!

 

[plymgary]

Oh, and ironically I've just had a sale. Perhaps I'll write another 100 posts in here....

 

[FiFi Fashions]

Been really good this year. Sales improving every month
Then BANG !! This month has been my worst ever
I'm putting it down to the World Cup.
Hoping for a better July
regards,
Anthony

 

[Frimley111R]

What are you selling? Are you retail? If so it is generally accepted that warm weather keeps people away from shops etc. A large bed company told me that hot weather drastically rduces the number of people looking for a new bed and a friend in Comet said the same thing. Generally businesses seem to be seeing a slow but steady increase with some doing very well due to pent up demand which was held back by the uncertainly of the economic climate.

 

[xhale2007]

Ive had a massive drop in sales since the world cup started. Was making 2-4 sales per day, world cup hit and i sold about 5 items since it started.

England get knocked out and im back selling more than ever

 

[deniser]

Warm weather is to blame as much as the World Cup. Don't worry about it. They will come back when it cools down.

 

[banskoo]

I am finding that I am getting more sales since the world cup, mainly from housewives that are drifting from the TV to the computer after they are bored of football.

 

[allen_xyh]

I'm a jadeite wholesalers,I just started my network marketing,I encountered the greast difficulty ,first of all to correct my grammatical errors,my English is bad.

 

No Idea I been to busy watching the Footie.:|

Earl

 

[NetArt]

In the past I have always found that wet weather = increase in sales and hot weather = less sales.

It is natural really, when it is wet people stay indoors and look for something else to do. Hot weather they are outside enjoying the good weather.

Plus more people go on holiday in the summer.


Andrew

 

[phil battison]

One of our businesses sell TV Brackets and we had great hopes of a big sales uplift in the run up to the World Cup but sales have been really poor. As much as anything I think its down to the stores finally getting their act together and bundling TV's with some great deals on TV brackets.

Generally we see a drop in our on-line volumes when the sun comes out with the exception of USB fans which seem popular with everyone!

 

[Alicatt]

Same here - good weather, bad for sales. Wet weather - everyone gets in front of their PC.

I have noticed that the mid-month dip has been more marked this year than previously, so it looks like people are finding it harder to get through the month to pay day.

 

[BrightIdeas]

I posted a few weeks ago on a similar theme (when it was sunny, there was a bank hol, etc.) - wanting to know how others were getting on. Shortly after I posted, things picked up again and since then I've had as many busier spells as quiet ones!

Soooo.... rather than panicking, my mantra's just going to be 'keep calm and carry on'!

 

[EliteIntegrity]

It depends what your selling?

JUne is always quiet for me and the world cup has definitely had an effect. But overall the last three months are about the same as a year ago.

 

[deadgoodundies]

End of month figures have been going up each time so I certainly can't complain.
One thing I have noticed is that on one day we might do 3-4 times our usually daily target and then the following day we might only just reach our daily target , so there is no consistency between daily sales and no reason that we can establish why some days it just goes crazy nuts. But at the end of the day as long as by the end of the month we've done more than the previous month it keeps me a happy chappy.

 

[Lorro2]

Had a sale about 5 minutes ago and one or two overnight. It sort of comes and goes. June is usually a fairly quiet month and shops struggle to attract people through the doors. The British coastal towns are booming at the moment with campsites, hotels and B&bs fully booked as people are turned off foreign holidays with strikes, drought and the the stress of going abroad. LC

 

[downsouth]

Totally the opposite here, Sun out = Booming sales, Wet weather = Doom on the sales front, but that I guess is attraction of running a seasonal business.

One product despite me buying double this year has nigh on sold out, I know loads of sites that run out a good few weeks ago.

2011 - Buy double again