Im in the process of setting up an online shop and this thought came to my mind.
What if youll be away for a couple of weeks on holiday? Who will sort out orders and delivery of goods to your customers? Has anyone been in this kind of situation before and how do you deal with this?
he has a good question there. what if you are going with your family and have no real trustworthy friends? it means you have to give them passwords access to your money and your suppliers! I know half of my mates would just start doing it them selves if they had contacts
Before going on holiday, just put a notice up on when your website saying that you'll be closed for X amount of days / weeks and the last set of orders will be handled on XX/XX/2009-2010
Asking friends or family to run your business is a recipe for disaster. The best thing to do is shut up shop before you go, put notices on your website, auto-responders on your emails, and Amazon/eBay on 'holiday settings'. After all, you're on holiday to relax and enjoy yourself, not worry about what's happening to your business.
I thought about this as I live a few hundred miles away from my parents and main family so whenever I visit I use order forfillment and just take my laptop and login 1 hour a day and deal with emails and send all the postage information off to the forfillment company.
Other than that as andy said do not take holidays until your big enough that you dont have to worry about taking one and have the staff in place assistant managers etc
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March 2010
