It's been a crazy winter in Michigan! While there hasn't been much snow, we've faced brutal winds, power outages, and freezing rain. The list could go on! Despite these challenges, we're currently up about 55% this year. With tornadoes, flooding, and ice storms affecting us, how is everyone doing? I see towns and cities burned to the ground, tornadoes taking out whole towns. Just curious and concerned about our fellow small business owners.
We've had a pretty mild winter this year...We've been overly excited for our Alaskan spring and 2 weeks ago Mother Nature said nope, not yet...it snowed all week...
We've been pretty lucky as far as snow goes. It's this wind of 25-40 mph and freezing rain. I hate to say this but I would take a couple of inches only of snow vs this. As far as business goes. I am surprised. The last 2 winters we were up in sales. 2024 up 25/26% also our warmest winter on record and a lot of snowbirds stayed here. This winter is up 55% and not a nice winter at all. We started in October till currently up in sales, the volume of swipes. I'm not complaining about it. Just odd for a Michigan winter. I had to hire 2 more people to pick up the slack. Since mid-late February I have not had a day off and tomorrow will be my first! I hope all is going great with your business.
Sales for us are definitely up but we did relocate in November, so we have access to a new customer base as well as our regular customers.... As of today, our spring has finally kicked in and I'm so enjoying it....
Great to see others picking up business too! Our few weeks are June are so so normally with graduations and weddings. Our snowbirds are home so that helps. I am getting tired and worn out. Thankfully, the 2 new hires were ready to hit the floor and not too much training. Been my roughest week personally but I pushed through it and dealt with personal issues and work was not easy. We all do it though.
