Small Business Tips to ensure your business survives Christmas

In Australia, many small businesses go through a very quiet period from about mid-December until the end of January. And 'when people go on vacation, focus on Christmas and generally do nothing but think about work.

Many small businesses to close after Christmas, because they have failed to plan adequately in terms of cash flow or how to maximize the use of their time. Instead of planning, action, they sat and worried about the lack of customers.

The time to start planning for this period of quiet is now! Unless you take some action now your children may live on instant noodles, by the end of January, lower than those Indian freelancers like you with your taxes to try to make ends meet until business picks up again.

What can you plan to do in 6 weeks time quiet?

1. Take a vacation of at least 2 weeks. If you can not beat them, join them. Understanding what is necessary to cover a value of at least 2 weeks of income, more money for a vacation and start saving a little 'every week in a separate account remains intact. Plan something fabulous and put pictures of you are planning to go (to help keep your attention and to help you not spend your money).

2. Are you a free online course. Understanding what skills you need to brush and find a free or low-cost online course. Get all materials ready and dedicate at least a week to immerse himself in finishing the course! Do not be tempted to start it soon - keep it aside for the waiting time to get the most out of your course.

3. Take a casual work. The companies will begin to take their Christmas casuals of October - so dust off your resume and look for temporary work to tide you over if you must.

4. Drum up business. The jobs that type of work or services people need to have made ready for the new year and to offer strong incentives for people to "stop time on the agenda" for the time being quiet. If you do well you can not have a quiet time at all! If you plan to do this you need to start thinking now to design your Christmas promotions, to get your marketing materials and ads designed together ready to start in November. Planning now means that you avoid rush job and the cost of premiums when people try to cram it in their diaries.

5. Work on your business. You know all these things that you plan to arrive at how to change your website or creating new marketing materials in all of these are perfect for quiet time. Find out at least 1 week in your diary to work on your business in the quiet time.

6. Write a book. It 'amazing how much you can write in 6 weeks of efforts. Write a book or an e-book for your company, or record some podcasts. Create products for your business that you can sell all year round to generate passive income.

7. Work on you. This is a great time to take advantage of all the other quiet activities such as massage therapists, personal trainers or naturopaths. Spend some serious time getting your body and mind refreshed and relaxed ready for the new year. Get a bunch of motivational podcasts by some of the best teachers in the world and keep them for quiet time to work on your mind.

8. Send technology on holiday. The time for silence is perfect for sending your computer away to be served, defragged and viruses have all the stuff done and redone the hard drive, if necessary (combine this with your vacation so you do not feel as if the computers that missing, while there are more - as a kind of high tech doghouse).

9. Fix your storage and admin. We all have a horror of battery storage. The last working day before Christmas I warm up the grinder, the wheel in the bin on wheels, pouring champagne and go through every file and every folder and printed sources. It 'a wonderfully therapeutic way to close the year's work down.

10. Plan for next year. Remember the business plan you wrote a few years ago for your business? The waiting time is the perfect time to sit down with someone and rethink the plan. Spend some serious time focusing on your goals and your vision for both you and your business. Ink it - write a business plan that you review regularly.

The waiting time could be the most productive time of your year if you plan for this activity. So - Arrange your cash flow needs and set aside money now to cover the period since the same way as you do for taxes, and then begin to freeze time on the agenda for all the brilliant things that you want to do to grow your business ....