Hello Again,
Just following up on a comment that makes all this sense in the world, unless you are running a Christmas oriented company. Comment from Totaltransformation was, Good Blog, a little early for Christmas isn’t it. I have made that same comment seems like hundreds of times. Well with all the excitement and hard work of just a few months back, I would naturally want say yes. That is until I got in the Christmas Wreath Business.
We actually start in early august updating site and marketing materials. I am not sure about other company’s, but we start signing groups up for the fundraising and corporate gifts programs as early as September and that means they have been looking for a while.
Most groups want to get their team together and start generating plans and picking leaders. Corporate buyers and fundraising groups want to get the decision making out of the way and assure that they will be able to get in the programs that are their 1st choice. The actually program is simple its but its all about timing. Our company would rather hurry up and wait even though that rarely is the case.
Yes boughs grow on trees, (unlike money) but snow and in our case the Rockie Mtns. limit getting to the trees, so we limit the amount of new clients each year. I am sure other company’s have similar issues about getting all the materials they need to manufacture their products.
We start making wreaths in October to deliver at Thanksgiving most groups want to get the work done so they can enjoy the Christmas season along with everyone else. We like that plan too, all our products are out before December starts.
We are a little different that Corporate giants. We focus on each individual wreath and customer. Our goal is to provide the best in quality, size and freshness. So we may not make as many, but we do make them better.
Having said that, no its never to early to get ready for Christmas. Also this is our 1st attempt at blogging and my English teacher and I never did seemed to agree on much, so it won’t hurt for me to start practicing early. Thanks for the comment and it makes perfect sense to me, but!
That answers my question.