I own a hair salon. Typically, November is my busiest season. It has been SO quiet. A lot of my colleagues are also saying the same thing and have had to close up shop because of it - or get a second job.
People keep saying it will get better and the economy will bounce back but I don’t know. I am so close from just throwing in the towel, closing up shop and getting a corporate gig.
It’s a powerful sales tactic that you don’t see much of really. I’m in sales, and I’m much more likely to get a response to “can you meet on Thursday at 3pm” versus “let me know when you have time later this week”.
Yeah, that idea of a very specific thing like a day, a time, a time-span, and a suggestion for services – for some reason, that made it more easy to visualize, and I was like, “Oh, yeah, I can do that.” A generic e-mail asking for people to make appointments would not have gotten my attention.