{"id":1220,"date":"2012-12-25T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2015-11-07T06:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T11:59:17","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2012\/12\/25\/happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays and Just Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The holiday season often slows the business process to a crawl and some business owners will just acknowledge the best business tactic the last two weeks in December is to just smile.\u00a0 While you are smiling, here are things to do:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Listen to customers with good ideas. Listen to customers with bad ideas, too \u2013 often there is a pearl of wisdom from the disgruntled customer.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Find something positive to say to each of your employees and peers.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Keep tabs on the cash.\u00a0 Manage your cash registers, cash deposits and the people doing these activities carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Attention now will pay rewards in your satisfaction with your business come January.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you every happiness this Christmas Season and prosperity in the New Year and thank you for being our or reader. We appreciate all your responses and look forward to a wonderful 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><center><strong>Special Holidays <\/strong><em>by Joanna Fuchs<\/em><\/center><center>We&#8217;re thinking of you this time of year,<br \/>\nWishing you happiness, joy, and cheer.<br \/>\nMay all your days be warm and bright,<br \/>\nAnd your nights enhanced by holiday light.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center><\/center><center>Enjoy your delectable holiday foods,<br \/>\nAs parties and gifts create holiday moods.<br \/>\nFavorite people play a meaningful part,<br \/>\nWhile treasured rituals warm your heart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center>You are special to us in many ways,<br \/>\nSo we wish you Happy Holidays!<\/center><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday season often slows the business process to a crawl and some business owners will just acknowledge the best business tactic the last two weeks in December is to just smile.\u00a0 While you are smiling, here are things to do: 1.\u00a0 Listen to customers with good ideas. Listen to customers with bad ideas, too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}