2. How I'm Preparing My Business For 2 Weeks Off & 2025 Plans

In this episode, Ellie shares her exact strategy for preparing her business to take two full weeks off during the Christmas holidays. She talks about her own experience of working through the holidays in the early years of her business, and explains why she’s made it a priority to unplug and enjoy the festive season without compromising her business. From pre-scheduling content and mapping out Q1 sales plans to creating seamless client support systems, Ellie gives a step-by-step guide to help business owners confidently take time off and return feeling fresh ready for the new year. Whether you’re planning for the holidays or looking for strategies to manage a break any time of the year, this episode will show you exactly what you need to consider to make that possible.

Key Takeaways

Client Communication is the key
Making sure your clients know what’s happening and ensuring they have no questions unanswered before you finish is essential for not impacting your client experience and making sure the pressure is off you over the break

You can be seen to be online without being ‘online’
Don’t just go completely mute over the Christmas period, pre-schedule content to go out so your audience still feel like you’re ‘there’ even if you’re not actually there. 

Prep your sales plan for Q1 instead of scrambling when you get back
Everyone knows how manic the first couple of weeks of January feel, so make life easy for yourself by having your Q1 sales plan done already before you break up for Christmas.

Audit your lead gen funnels before you go so you’re not seeing a pause in leads
You can literally have leads coming in over the Christmas period if you do this as you’re ensuring they’re all automated so you don’t need to be IN the business for them to be generating leads for you.

Block off time in your diary for when you get back
Don’t try to jump straight back in to client work, make sure you block of time to catch up and get set for the year instead of trying to jump straight back in and getting overwhelmed by day 3.

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