Polar Opposite Business Expectations
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 by Alan YuI was talking to a business owner of a salon today and he was saying how his business was so strange for the past two weeks. Basically, when it was an extremely sunny day he assumed that all of the customers would start coming in. However, it ended up being one of the slowest days for him. When it was raining cats and dogs it was a completely different story as while he expected it to be dead a swarm of people came in.
My initial thoughts was that during the sunny days his clientele felt that there was so many other things to do whereas in a rainy day a lot of people just want to get tasks done. I think it is mainly food vendors that would get less business in a very rainy day as I would be surprised if there would be a lot of people that would still go to say a hot dog stand when the weather is bad.
I suppose a decision you make too financially is do you invest tons of money in a research company to try and predict say when people are going to come or do you simply learn from experience?





