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Day 24: FedEx festive top tips for small businesses

#24 Happy Christmas One and All

Christmas is coming and at FedEx we want to help your business be fully prepared this festive season. For today’s top tip, please see below:

Congratulations and Happy Christmas. We hope 2015 has been a memorable, prosperous and successful year for your business.

Before you relax and begin to look ahead to 2016, take the time to review your business’ performance over the last year, to determine your successes and examine the areas where you can improve — was there a particular month that your business experienced a peak in sales and how can you ensure this is a regular occurrence.

By monitoring your business’ performance you can assess whether it’s achieving the maximum productivity and profit. Once you’ve evaluated how your business has fared throughout 2015, you can develop a strategy to allow you to determine what you’re going to achieve in 2016 and how you’ll go about this. Remember to also develop a strategy for your business’s long-term objectives, so you can ensure your business continues to grow and prosper.

Set your business manageable goals, such as the number of new customers your business will have by the end of the year or monthly sales targets. Thinking ahead will also give your business a competitive edge by being one-step ahead of your customer’s requests to ensure it can reach its full potential, building on the solid platform and presence created in 2015.

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