Welcome to Pearsal podcast. I'm Mike.

And this is Rolando and we're in episode 453 and this is a themed episode.

That's right. And for the first time and forever, we are not live. This is a pre-recorded episode.

And this can be interesting. It's been a little

while since we've done, we've done some pre-recorded ones where we've, you know, just put straight to

the podcast, straight to YouTube, no, no interactions with our, with our listeners. But we both got

some stuff going on this summer. So we wanted to make sure that we still had content coming out here. And speaking to summer, one of the things that we always hear

and we've had many episodes about is the summer slowdown. Now, summer slowdown is one of

those things where people experience oftentimes a dip in their sales over the summer. And a lot

of times it's because they're comparing it to like Q4 or other times of the year.

And they're not really understanding that this is just in retail in general, a lower time of the year.

However, there are things that can be done to mitigate and reduce the amount of impact that you have on your store from Summer Slowdown.

So we're going to be talking about that today as we talk about our what is Summer slowdown episode. And of course, we couldn't be a reselling podcast without talking about summer

slowdown, right? Everybody has that one episode, right? Every year. And we've gone back and forth,

right? I had this whole belief that summer slowdown was a myth, which I still hold on to just a little

bit. And then we've

had the one. You do, but you always say every year. But my sales are a little slower.

Is I really? Okay. Well, the interesting thing is that now I have part-time, like, I don't know if

that's going to look the same, right? This is the first time that I deal with summer part-time. Now, I will be cranking up the reselling a little bit more

here. I do have my son's college bill. I need to take care of here. Well, he's helping me.

And, hey, by the way, tip to everyone, if you have, like, your kids or somebody's, like, working

with you, they have a brand new store. I, I, unless they're willing to like crank out that store and like

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