January Sales Drive? - Think Twice Before You Pick Up The Phone

From a business perspective, the Christmas and New Year holiday season can be both frustrating and not a little worrying. Outside of the retail sector – which remains busy throughout - many businesses here in the UK can look forward to a marked slowdown in activity from mid-December onwards, culminating in a prolonged period of zero productivity, starting on Christmas eve (or earlier) and ending on the first full working week of January when customers and suppliers return from their holidays.