Is it holidays yet?

[Neville Bailey]

Has the festive season started yet?

Where have all the clients gone?

The past week has been dreadfully quiet, from a business point of view - it's as if someone threw the switch on my business.

The phone is quiet, my inbox is boring - have I offended everybody?

Even my newsletters, which generally precipitate enquiries, seem to be falling on deaf ears...

Sorry, no Christmas presents for anyone, if this continues for much longer.

[Dave A]

No sign of holiday fever biting yet on my side. We're in very different lines of business, though.

[Chrisjan B]

Same here...

[wynn]

The lights are up in the malls so the holidays must be here already.

[Just Gone]

This year has been quiter than other year, business related ........... normally at this time of the year I am pumping .....

[garthu]

Definitely quieter on my side than last year, substantially! Neville, sounds like you and me gonna be having xmas together.. maybe macdonalds?

[Taxempt]

I'm swamped.
Year end bonuses are keeping me very ocupied.
But it's normaly like this untill the 2nd week in december

[AndyD]

We're about the same as past years for volume of work. Our overall margins are just a few percent lower but we're working on that. We had a couple of quieter months at the beginning of last winter which is still having a knock-on effect

In my next life I want to come back as an accountant

[Missnancyalex]

I am relaxed now. 8 out of 6 clients are gone on holidays and I got a time to spend with my family.

[MadJan]

Wish i could say we're swamped...business has indeed gotten very very quiet on this side

[AppleBruceT]

Same here, things have slowed up. I am in IT sales (apple) and my 7 year history tells me brace for a slow December and January. Happy holidays to all. Its family time and golden beaches soon for me.

[SilverNodashi]

Business has been much quieter this year than last during November and December as well.

[Newretailer]

Our sales have been up by about 7% overall from last year. We have Christmas gift-oriented products and although people seem to have started buying late, they are really buying now.

In addition we landed some fairly big new customers.

[AndyD]

I'm pretty damn busy and have been for the last few weeks. I'm officially closed today but there's a few jobs I couldn't afford to turn down that are running into next week so I have some staff working for an extra week.

[Pap_sak]

I hope Christmas shopping starts in earnest today otherwise I do not see it being a very good Christmas for me. So far it's been pretty much like an ordinary month.