Strategies: Get started on these end-of-year business tasks
If you’ve got a retail business, you’re almost certainly (hopefully) incredibly busy this time of 
year. In fact, perhaps more than 50% of your sales may come between Halloween and New Year’s. That means customers to serve, shelves to restock, vendors to contact, employees to manage. Many service businesses are equally overwhelmed — hairdressers, restaurants, caterers. I’m hoping this time of year is so hectic you hardly have time to read this column (but read it anyway …).
For the rest of us, December can be one of the slowest times of the year. It can often be deadly quiet at the office. Clients are away, phones don’t ring, employees or contractors aren’t around to finish projects. Meanwhile, back at home, life can be painfully noisy; just how long are your in-laws staying?
That makes this the perfect time to take care of some end-of-year tasks. Send the relatives to the mall; I have good reasons for you to sneak away to the office. Read full story:
