FREE PERSONAL CLASSIFIEDS: 1.855.935.5552 BUSINESS ADS: 1.877.935.7503
Vol. 7 #22 - EasyfinderBuySell.com- Dec. 1st to Dec. 15th, 2016
ON THE MARKET
-3
by Sylvie Legault
Dealing With Business Slow Downs When times are slow for your business, chances are you won't have the luxury of waiting and seeing if things improve. You'll need to take steps quickly to get back on track.
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED
FOR SALE- Baby sled 32 X 15. $30.00; Childs wooden table and 2 chairs, Crockino board $25.00; 32 cup electric coffee pot $15.00 613-534-8596
FOR SALE- Snow blower Bolens 26-inch wide 2 stages 8HP engine excellent condition asking $450 or best offer 613-984-1227 Finch
WANTED- 60 year old looking for driver’s job delivering auto parts, small deliveries around Quebec border to Cornwall Ontario 1-450-829-2483
FOR SALE- 2 12-volt electric winches 1 2,000 lb., 1 1,500 lb. $50 ea., or best offer, 1 anchor lift for boat deckhand 40 paid $326 plus tax sell for $150, electric 4-ton wood splinter seal leaks a bit but works perfectly try it for yourself $100 613-527-2278 Maxville
FOR SALE- Cabinet oil heater 33,000 BTU $85, 2 kerosene 6,000 BTU heaters $60 ea., small jointer & shapers $50 ea., drafting table $65, 613-347-2078 Bainsville
WANTED- To rent a garage for my convertible for the winter time 613-932-7045
FOR SALE- Lady’s leather brown shoulder bag asking $10, bicycle shorts with back pad size medium matching top size medium never worn asking $30 call 613-933-4903 Cornwall
FOR SALE- Firewood, hardwood $80 per cord 613-577-2388 FOR SALE- Lady’s long red coat pure Virgin wool size 16 to 18 $30 613-931-1037
FREE CLASSIFIEDS
*
1-855-935-5552 easyfinder.classifieds@gmail.com
APPLIANCES FOR SALE- Broan 30 inch almond colour 2 speed, 2 light under cabinet range hood, can be vented or non vented, like new $50.00 613-936-7219 Morrisburg FOR SALE- Danby Diplomat .9 cu.ft. microwave, works perfect, $30.00 613-936-7219 Morrisburg
Add Products And Services During slow times, your very instinct might be to cut corners, but in the case of your catalog of products and services this could spell disaster. Instead, you want to select additions carefully based on the needs and desires of your clients. Think of it this way: let's say you provide web design services. Your client hires you for the design work, then goes elsewhere to get a logo, hosting, and content. Having to hire four different companies just to complete one project is not costeffective or time-efficient for your client. So what if you could offer web design and hosting or web design and everything else necessary as well? Chances are you'd have a definite advantage over your competition. Even if you don't have the skills or ability to handle those aspects of the project, you could team up with other companies like yourself who also want to boost business and give themselves a competitive edge. No matter what product or service you primarily provide, you could find ways to provide additional necessities to your clients. Keep A Positive Attitude Times are hard. Your nerves are on edge. You're feeling the pressure. When a past client calls to ask how things are going, do you tell them the truth and hope they take pity on you? Do you wallow in a self-defeating attitude? NO! If you want to get through the hard times, you have to keep in mind two things:
1) No one is going to do business with a failing company and 2) Hard times are only temporary. Let's think about this. If you called up a company about business and the representative says, "It will be great to be finally getting some new clients" or "Things have been horribly slow around here lately" are you going to trust them with your project? No. The first thing you are going to be wondering is why they haven't been doing well. And that's what your potential clients will wonder about you as well. So how do you keep from breaking down on the phone with your clients? By remembering that business is a cycle and just as things are bad now, they will turn around and you will be doing well again. The only thing permanent is giving up. Market More Business is slow; budgets are tight. So what usually gets trimmed first? Marketing. Do you know what the results are? Disaster! When you conduct marketing, you are not selling yourself to generate business today or even tomorrow. Marketing is an investment in your business's future. In fact, research has shown that most marketing efforts don't pay off for at least six months. So think about that. Let's say you cut back on marketing in June and you weather the economic down cycle, what's going to happen in December? Absolutely nothing! Because all of your potential clients have been won over by the marketing efforts of your competition which were conducted during the summer. Instead of cutting back, a slow down is the time to boost marketing. Get back in touch with past clients, attend seminars, pass out flyers. After all, if work is slow, what else are you going to be spending your time doing?
*Excluding picture ads, Services and Real Estate.
Publishers Sylvie L. Boucher Pierre Boucher Advertising Sylvie L. Boucher Office Address: 145 Pitt Street Cornwall, Ontario K6J 3P5 Mailing Address: PO Box 1035, Prescott, Ontario K0E 1T0
Business Ads:
1-877-935-7503
Free Personal Classifieds:
1-855-935-5552
Graphic Designers Sylvie L. Boucher Jessica Campbell Melanie Beaudet Free Classifieds easyfinder.classifieds@gmail.com
Homefinder / Easyfinder will not be responsible for errors, omissions or misrepresentations in the descriptions provided. Homefinder / Easyfinder assumes no financial responsibility for typographical errors in advertisements. No part of this guide may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photography, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.