Slow Business Wise

[Canadian Tech]

I don't know about anyone else but business has been dead for the past 4 weeks or so. I was going strong then all of a sudden business dropped off. I get the odd phone call but no work. Anyone else?

 

[lan101]

Been slower here lately. The jobs I am getting are good ones at least and ones that bring some decent money in. A few of my business clients that I see regularly are on vacation or out of town a lot during the summer so that can make it slower sometimes.

Residential client wise it's been pretty slow as far as computer tune up/cleanup jobs. Only a few of those the last month or so. Those are nice because they are quick and decent money when you get 2-4 per day and can do remotely especially.

 

[dgoglio]

Busier than ever for us. Slow periods happen. During those times you should focus on advertising and marketing. Bring business in!

 

[Diggs]

Kids are out of school. It always slows down during these summer months for me.

 

[Archon Prime]

I'm not super busy, but I've been getting more subscriptions for EAM. Usually get new calls. Most of them are bs and I refer them to someone else. But Yeah, it gets slower in the summertime until around August when things pick back up.

 

[cypress]

Yeah it has been slower for me this year, especially compared to years past. I will get a couple busy weeks and then it will slow back down again. I have been doing more EAM lately and I got some more renewals coming up.

 

[callthatgirl]

What are you doing with the downtime?

I'm about $300 short of my mid month bottom line goal, and this is after me freaking out about removing my 1 hour from my scheduler. Doing ok though, 14 jobs since June 1. I'm making it but it's still scary!

 

[thecomputerguy]

By tomorrow I will have billed for about 36 jobs in total this month. Alot of them minimum support logins at $35 or half hour, a couple pretty juicy ones in there.

Edit: Removed total sales, realized this isn't TEO.

 

[Bryce W]

As others have said, now is the time to do some advertising/marketing. Although, most advertising is one of those things that takes a few weeks to come back, so you need to be doing it all the time. Even if you were busy two weeks ago, so you have work today.

Having monthly payments in place from managed services or similar help smooth out these sort of times.

Also a good time to check yours stats. Whats working, what not working? what makes the most money? and potentially takes the least time.

You may find that selling a bunch of EAM like @cypress and @McFarland IT really help level out these down times. How can you push that harder to further smooth out the down times?

 

[Canadian Tech]

Around here newspaper ads never worked for me the same with flyers. What I did find that worked was Facebook and Facebook ads. I'm constantly engaging my audience to get the word out and it's worked up until now. I'm sure it will pick up again but I can't help but wonder what's going on.