{"id":52573,"date":"2012-08-30T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/?p=52573"},"modified":"2024-12-26T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T19:40:29","slug":"voip-supply-shows-how-to-stop-the-mid-year-sales-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/voip-supply-shows-how-to-stop-the-mid-year-sales-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"VoIP Supply Shows How to Stop the Mid-Year Sales Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/small-business\/openforum\/articles\/5-ways-to-bust-your-company-out-of-a-mid-year-slump\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52583 alignright\" title=\"AMEX OPEN\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2012\/08\/AMEX-OPEN.jpg\" alt=\"AMEX OPEN\" width=\"244\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s summertime and, as you know, the livin&#8217; is easy. \u00a0But maybe folks are taking it a little too easy, in the eyes of some small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe it&#8217;s just a mid-year sales slump?<\/p>\n<h3>5 Ways to Add Excitement, Revenue, and New Customers<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->VoIP Supply was featured in Jennifer Gregory&#8217;s,\u00a05 Ways to Bust Your Company Out of a Mid-Year Slump at the American Express OPEN Forum, highlighting that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>With a little bit of creativity, you can use these months to add revenue to your company, bring new customers through the door and get employees excited about coming to work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gregory shows that some companies are using these ideas for improved results:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1. <\/strong>Have A Contest<br \/>\n<strong>2. <\/strong>Hold a pep rally or employee event<br \/>\n<strong>3. <\/strong>Launch a new campaign<br \/>\n<strong>4. <\/strong>Introduce a new product or service<br \/>\n<strong>5. <\/strong>Target new customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s summertime and, as you know, the livin&#8217; is easy. \u00a0But maybe folks are taking it a little too easy, in the eyes of some small businesses. Or, maybe it&#8217;s just a mid-year sales slump? 5 Ways to Add Excitement, Revenue, and New Customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311267,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52573\/revisions\/311267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}