Well, it is October, and if the world moves as in previous years, many of my clients will do a major part of their trade this year in the next two months. So it is time to start thinking of what to adorn your shop for the holiday season. Please do not leave it too late. Furthermore, among your many other tasks, you will need now to start planning your stock ordering. This is something our point of sale can help you with. You will also need to look into your staff levels again something our point of sale can help you with all this; I be talking about these soon including monitoring with shadow marketing.
Overall, the economy now is moving forward but only marginally.
This is what it looks like now on 4 Oct 2017.
The way it looked a year ago in Oct 2016, when it was better
Still it is in the black, and the world economy is continuing to only slowly recover, even so it would be nice if we got some decent exports going.
There are signs that do appear to show that the yearly growing interest in Christmas trend is continuing up. You can see that this year 2017 is higher than 2016, which is higher than 2015. The public mood seems positive.
Measured interest using Data Source: Google Trends (www.google.com/trends)."
Last year, what I noticed after an analysis of the selling season for Christmas was that in recent years, it has gotten longer. If this continues and I cannot see why it would not, we can expect a Christmas season from mid-December to late January about a 6-7-week period.
Also now, it is important to check that all the equipment you propose to use over the Christmas period is working? This is particularly true of some of the old POS machines that people bring out of the cupboard at present. Please check them to make sure it all works? Furthermore, check the cables. Equally important that your Internet connections are where you need it? I suggest you try it all out now.
Believe me, you do not want anything not working over the coming season. If something goes wrong now, it will not be good for the shop and it may cost, for example computer engineers are often on holidays and those left are on double rates.
