SOWPub Small Business Forums  
 

Click Here to see the latest posts!

Ask any questions related to business / entrepreneurship / money-making / life
or share your success stories (and educational "failures")...

Sign up for the Hidden Business Ideas Letter Free edition, and receive a free report straight to your inbox: "Idea that works in a pandemic: Ordinary housewife makes $50,000 a month in her spare time, using a simple idea - and her driveway..."

NO BLATANT ADS PLEASE
Also, please no insults or personal attacks.
Feel free to link to your web site though at the end of your posts.

Stay up to date! Get email notifications or
get "new thread" feeds here

 

Go Back   SOWPub Small Business Forums > Main Category > SOWPub Business Forum
Register FAQ Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

SOWPub Business Forum Seeds of Wisdom Forum

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #2  
Old December 19, 2019, 06:52 PM
GordonJ's Avatar
GordonJ GordonJ is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Posts: 3,471
Default Not exactly like that...

Quote:
Originally Posted by Millard Grubb View Post
For the past few years, I have been living in Branson MO. The whole town is focused on serving the hundreds of thousands(If not a million) of people who come here each year. I have focused my efforts in consulting on two nearby towns who have standard population and businesses.

Most of the businesses are happy with the business that comes in the two major seasons... main tourists of families in the summer (May - through August)... and the senior market from Sept. through December.

The town is barely open from Jan. through March.

Has anyone had experience working in a market like this?

Here in Cuyahoga Falls, we have BLOSSOM Music Center, one of the first "bowl", grass seating with a pavilion cover which holds several thousand. It is home to the Cleveland Orchestra, one of the greats in the world. It has a season too. Summer, with a couple of months on either side.

Also, I had a friend with a little motel in FL, just outside Daytona Beach, and he had a seasonal thing too.

What I can share is, it is a good time to target the LOCALS, and get deals into their hands, Inventory Clearances, President's Day, Valentine's Day and we see a lot of promotions this time of the year, because it isn't just a holiday town or destination, a lot of businesses go through this dead spot on their calendar.

Depending on what service you are offering, present it in terms of FOR LOCALS, for you.

Create your promotions as "catch your breath" offers, get this now before you get busy with the season. Try to use it to your advantage and most everyone will "get it", and understand the reasoning behind it.

Hope this helps a little.

Gordon
Reply With Quote
 


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Other recent posts on the forum...


Seeds of Wisdom Publishing (front page) | Seeds of Wisdom Business forum | Seeds of Wisdom Original Business Forum (Archive) | Hidden Unusual Business Ideas Newsletter | Hotsheet Profits | Persuade via Remote Influence | Affia Band | The Entrepreneur's Hotsheet | The SeedZine (Entrepreneurial Ezine)

Get the report on Harvey Brody's Answers to a Question-Oriented-Person


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:38 AM.


Powered by vBulletin Version 3.6.0
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.