{"id":206431,"date":"2025-12-23T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206431\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:04:18","slug":"my-main-advice-would-be-to-plan-earlier-than-feels-necessary-seasonal-entrepreneurs-share-the-financial-lessons-they-learnt-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206431\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My main advice would be to plan earlier than feels necessary\u2019 \u2013 seasonal entrepreneurs share the financial lessons they learnt this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aoife McHugh launched her reusable Christmas cracker business in 2022. Photo: Gareth Chaney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43e7e0e4-3cc2-4bdf-906d-2dc5920c1160.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aoife McHugh launched her reusable Christmas cracker business in 2022. Photo: Gareth Chaney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Most retail businesses experience their highest turnovers in the last three months of the year. This is especially true for seasonal businesses that focus on the so-called \u201cgolden quarter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We spoke to business owners across Ireland to find out how the landscape has changed this year and what they plan to do differently next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoife McHugh launched her reusable Christmas cracker business in 2022. Photo: Gareth Chaney Most retail businesses experience their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,176,61,60,898,174,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-206431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}