Gone very quiet
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Anyone else noticed a big drop off in trade the last couple of weeks over and above all the COVID issues?
This year has been a very bad for many people but we have tried to battle through but the last 3 weeks I have seen a big down turn.
My year on year is looking like:
Jan +26%
Feb -74%
Mar +7%
Apr -58%
May -53%
Jun -4%
Jul -5%
Aug -76% <<<<< OUCH!
Jan and Feb are very quiet months for us so easy to get big swings if we have 1 busy week. We do 90% of our business March to October.
The rest of the year much more accurate as many more data points.
This year has been a very bad for many people but we have tried to battle through but the last 3 weeks I have seen a big down turn.
My year on year is looking like:
Jan +26%
Feb -74%
Mar +7%
Apr -58%
May -53%
Jun -4%
Jul -5%
Aug -76% <<<<< OUCH!
Jan and Feb are very quiet months for us so easy to get big swings if we have 1 busy week. We do 90% of our business March to October.
The rest of the year much more accurate as many more data points.
Our year on year turnover looks like this;
Jan +6%
Feb +8%
Mar +2%
Apr -68%
May -37%
Jun +21%
Jul +35%
Aug +31%
SME trade/retail flooring company.
Order book is strong but the next couple of months will be interesting.
April & May - with furlough, rates reduction and grants the company was pretty much unaffected profit-wise.
Jan +6%
Feb +8%
Mar +2%
Apr -68%
May -37%
Jun +21%
Jul +35%
Aug +31%
SME trade/retail flooring company.
Order book is strong but the next couple of months will be interesting.
April & May - with furlough, rates reduction and grants the company was pretty much unaffected profit-wise.
Edited by MOBB on Thursday 20th August 11:06
Edited by MOBB on Thursday 20th August 12:20
Mr Overheads said:
Not even vaguely in the same sector, but I'm finding almost everyone seems to have gone on holiday (might be staycations, but certainly not working)
I think this could explain it. Everyone trying to get some sort of holiday in before schools go back/second wave hits/more lockdowns/redundancy.Do you break down revenue into any sub-categories? Anything you can look into to see where exactly you've lost sales or whether it's just right across the board?
jammy-git said:
Mr Overheads said:
Not even vaguely in the same sector, but I'm finding almost everyone seems to have gone on holiday (might be staycations, but certainly not working)
I think this could explain it. Everyone trying to get some sort of holiday in before schools go back/second wave hits/more lockdowns/redundancy.Do you break down revenue into any sub-categories? Anything you can look into to see where exactly you've lost sales or whether it's just right across the board?
Phones are quiet, account holders are dead too. Easily 80% down.
red_slr said:
Interesting thanks. I have never known it this quiet in August.
I'm half expecting a bit of a crash September/October, hope I'm wrong.We seemed to have had a bounceback period where fitters that didnt earn in April/May worked all hours when things opened to catch back up.
We work with a wide variety of businesses providing B2B lead generation and marketing services. We have seen
Jan + 5%
Feb + 10%
March - 50%
April - 50%
May - 40%
June - 30%
July + 5%
August + 10%
September + 5%
I had one day in March where we put 60% of our revenue on hold, that was an exciting day!
We are still down significantly on last year but have signed up 3 new customers in the last couple of weeks, the first new customers since lock down.
It's been an interesting period.
Jan + 5%
Feb + 10%
March - 50%
April - 50%
May - 40%
June - 30%
July + 5%
August + 10%
September + 5%
I had one day in March where we put 60% of our revenue on hold, that was an exciting day!
We are still down significantly on last year but have signed up 3 new customers in the last couple of weeks, the first new customers since lock down.
It's been an interesting period.
Jan and Feb were about 15% up on last year, first couple of weeks of March were also up, then the phone stopped ringing.
April and May - absolutely nothing at all.
June and July, about the same as last year.
August, a bit down so far. I guess the prospect of job losses is making people stop and think now.
April and May - absolutely nothing at all.
June and July, about the same as last year.
August, a bit down so far. I guess the prospect of job losses is making people stop and think now.
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