How to survive the “dead season” for business»

Ekaterina Ukolova gives advice to entrepreneurs on how to overcome the “dead season” – from describing the process of diversifying areas of work-to special training for sales managers and new ways to motivate customers
Every entrepreneur is secretly afraid of this terrible time when all customers run away, go on vacation, suddenly lose interest in his product and simply forget about its existence. For example, the scourge of a large part of Russian business is summer holidays: no one agrees to meetings, marketing offers are automatically sent to spam, calls remain unanswered, messages in social networks hang for days… No wonder this period is called the “dead season”. Even the long may weekends preceding the summer season are usually unprofitable — the end-to-end Analytics service Alytics suggests that during this time, Russian business loses almost 30% of orders. Continue reading →