Summer Business Tips
Here a few helpful hints for you and your business during the summer months:
1. Use summer community events to promote your business.
Plenty of community events are held over the summer and organizers are always looking for sponsors! This is an excellent to get your name our there or to continue to advertise around your city! If you are interested in sponsoring a BFN sumemr event please contact the office for more information.
2. Reconnect with your best business customers and coworkers.
Summer is an excellent time to spend on patios and outdoors, and those are excellent places to meet with clients, customers and even coworkerks.
3. Always answer your phone.
Although summer hours may be fairly flexible with holidays and earlier closing times- it's important
that customers are made aware of these changes. Make sure there's always someone there to answer the phone when you are open(if not, someone may assume you're closed and take their business elsewhere). When you are not open, leave an answering maching stating your hours of operation.
Sources: http://www.alberni.ca/articles/articles/345/1/Hot-Summer-Tips-for-Cool-Entrepreneurs/Page1.html,
http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/customerservice/a/custservrules.htm,
