{"id":1833,"date":"2015-12-03T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:23:21","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-end-of-year-sales-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/thoughtful-thursdays-end-of-year-sales-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Year end sales activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are&nbsp;you prepared for the year end? There is no need for it to be a stressful time of year. A bit of structure and discipline can help ease the stress.<\/p>\n<p>Realize that&nbsp;some of your customers may be on reduced schedules over the coming holiday season others will be incredibly busy.&nbsp; Be mindful that your competitors will be going through the same exercise and plan accordingly. The further out in front of the calendar you can be, the better.<\/p>\n<p>From today there are approximately seventeen business days left in the year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make appointments with your key customers now<\/li>\n<li>Review your budgets, identify sales to budget gaps and make sure you are not leaving anything to chance<\/li>\n<li>Set aside time for your own year end review and 2016 planning<\/li>\n<li>Schedule time to thank your internal customers for their support<\/li>\n<li>Do like the guy with the beard&nbsp;in the red suit\n<ul>\n<li>Make a list and check it twice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.<\/a> and I will respond.<\/p>\n<p>Please share Thoughtful Thursdays posts with people you feel may find the topic interesting and helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are&nbsp;you prepared for the year end? There is no need for it to be a stressful time of year. A bit of structure and discipline can help ease the stress. Realize that&nbsp;some of your customers&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/thoughtful-thursdays-end-of-year-sales-activities\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,16,5,3],"tags":[77,60,52,35,73],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-management","category-sales","category-sales-call-planning","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-business-management","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-call-planning-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}