Now that we're well in to 2010, I am in a position to make a genuine and I hope pretty accurate business projection for the year as a whole, solely based on my own company's experience.
The year got off to an incredibly slow start compared with previous years, mainly I think to the prolonged severe weather conditions across the UK, i.e. snow, and lots of it!
At that time, it was raising real concern and I just hoped that it was the weather conditions that caused sales and turnover to literally halve for the whole of January, in comparison to 2009.
Around the middle of February, things really started to turn around and the level of business literally 'rocketed' overnight and has been consistently high since.
We are now in a position where sales figures are slightly ahead of those of 2009 at this point in the year and showing no signs of slowing down.
With this in mind, I am total confident that 2010 will be yet another great year for our conservatory sales, if not for the industry as a whole and I predict that if sales continue as they are, we will be approximately 10% up on last year.
My only concern is the 2010 World Cup, which inevitably causes disruption to our business, but this is nothing new.
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What you have said pretty much mimics what happened to us during the start of this year. January was a terrible month. I think purely because of the weather. But when February came around, that turned out to be our best month for sales for two and a half years. And at the moment we are ahead of 2009's figures. So looks like were both in the same boat!
ReplyDeleteHave you stopped blogging? I was hoping to pick your brains about Triple Glazed conservatories?!
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