Ep. 2957 - Q&A: “How can I make a slow month more productive?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this episode, we explore ways to make quiet months productive, from learning new skills to preparing for a strong comeback. What can you do during a slow season in your business?
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| 0:49.4 | How can you make a slow month more productive? The offseason can be a frustrating time for anybody running a seasonal business. We got lots of folks out there doing all kinds of different businesses and side hustles. And it can be tempting to view the quiet months as downtime, which by the way, nothing wrong with downtime, but it can also be a great |
| 1:11.6 | opportunity to prepare for future growth. So if you have a seasonal business or otherwise experience |
| 1:16.4 | fast months, slow months, busy months, quiet months, how can you kind of balance that and use |
| 1:21.4 | some of those quiet months to make them productive for future months? We're going to hear today |
| 1:25.4 | from a freelance photographer. She specializes in |
| 1:28.2 | weddings and family portraits. And so that is kind of a seasonal business, or at least there are |
| 1:32.8 | times in which her business is much busier and more frequent. So she's wondering how to use the |
| 1:38.3 | slow months of January and February more effectively. Let's take a look. Let's look at some |
| 1:42.3 | practical strategies. And hopefully this will be |
| 1:44.4 | helpful for Katie and others out there. By the way, welcome to Sidesaw School. My name's Chris Gillebough. |
| 1:49.0 | Detailed question and my answer coming right up. |
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