A little tip for sales people from an old hand. Sales functions generally slow down during the holiday season due to, naturally, the people you're selling to being away on holiday. However, a target contact list generally comprises nothing more than an email list, with very few other contact details, so, email your targets during the holiday season and you're bound to get in return an out-of-office message with their full contact details and, usually, the contact details of their stand-ins and deputies. The holiday season needn't be such a fallow period at all - use it to prepare.
Made the first strudel of the season over the weekend - the apples on our trees are well in advance of their normal time for ripening - a bumper crop of eaters and cookers. Never seen the trees so heavily laden.
Remember I said I wanted to do an analysis of the solar PV generation over the years we've been in the house to determine the best days on which to hold outdoor events? Well, I did one yesterday, based on average generation of kWh, but it's far too granular to derive anything meaningful from it. Perhaps an analysis week by week is better.
Click on the image to expand it. One thing that can be derived is that, on average, the 29th December is a very sunny day. It could be used to determine, again on average, which days to avoid; there are about 5 or 6 days there where having an outdoor event is a definite no-no.
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