Four Things You Stand to Achieve Through Holiday Lighting
There are at least four things that you stand to achieve through the use of holiday lighting. What we are talking about here are those bright (sometimes blinking) lights that are installed during the holiday season - especially the stretch between thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year. It emerges that besides just decorating your house or business premises, there are several things that you can actually achieve using the said holiday lights.
Without any further ado, we may now proceed to examine the four things you stand to achieve through the use of holiday lighting. Those include:
1. Increasing sales (in a retail setting): it is a well known fact, in the retail fraternity, that the holiday season is one in which people tend to shop a lot. It is further well known that such people will tend to feel drawn (to shop) in the stores where they can see holiday lighting in place. Subconsciously, it seems, these lights send to the said people a message that they are likely to find the things they are looking for (for holiday usage) in such stores. It is therefore no wonder that retailers have been known to invest considerable sums of money into holiday lights, as they know that those are investments they are likely to recoup; thanks to the greater sales brought about by those lights, when the lights attract folks into the stores.
2. Entertaining you kids: kids love to have their sense stimulated. Anything that stimulates their senses is likely to keep them entertained. The holiday lighting we are talking about can go a long way toward stimulating the kids' sight-sense. That would be greatly entertaining to them. It would then give them something to look forward to each year. It can help you teach them the concept of seasons and years, as you get to explain to them that when they see the lights installed, they should know that the year is just about to end.
3. Setting the holiday mood: sometimes, you realize that, going by the calendar, the holiday season is at hand, yet something seems to be amiss (so that in spite of the calendar indicating the advent of the holiday season, you actually don't feel it). When that happens to be the case, you need something to set the holiday mood. This you can achieve using the holiday light we are discussing here. It can be either in your domestic setting, or in an organizational setting, or in a business setting: where you want to get people in the holiday spirit. As we saw earlier, in the business setting, setting the holiday mood would also have the effect of getting customers into the holiday shopping mood, with potential to increase your sales and profits substantially.
4. Keeping away winter blues: this would be relevant in the parts of the world where the holiday season (late November, December and early January) coincides with the winter season. Now it is a well established fact that bright, colorful lights can help keep winter blues away. This then, is something you can achieve using holiday lighting.
Without any further ado, we may now proceed to examine the four things you stand to achieve through the use of holiday lighting. Those include:
1. Increasing sales (in a retail setting): it is a well known fact, in the retail fraternity, that the holiday season is one in which people tend to shop a lot. It is further well known that such people will tend to feel drawn (to shop) in the stores where they can see holiday lighting in place. Subconsciously, it seems, these lights send to the said people a message that they are likely to find the things they are looking for (for holiday usage) in such stores. It is therefore no wonder that retailers have been known to invest considerable sums of money into holiday lights, as they know that those are investments they are likely to recoup; thanks to the greater sales brought about by those lights, when the lights attract folks into the stores.
2. Entertaining you kids: kids love to have their sense stimulated. Anything that stimulates their senses is likely to keep them entertained. The holiday lighting we are talking about can go a long way toward stimulating the kids' sight-sense. That would be greatly entertaining to them. It would then give them something to look forward to each year. It can help you teach them the concept of seasons and years, as you get to explain to them that when they see the lights installed, they should know that the year is just about to end.
3. Setting the holiday mood: sometimes, you realize that, going by the calendar, the holiday season is at hand, yet something seems to be amiss (so that in spite of the calendar indicating the advent of the holiday season, you actually don't feel it). When that happens to be the case, you need something to set the holiday mood. This you can achieve using the holiday light we are discussing here. It can be either in your domestic setting, or in an organizational setting, or in a business setting: where you want to get people in the holiday spirit. As we saw earlier, in the business setting, setting the holiday mood would also have the effect of getting customers into the holiday shopping mood, with potential to increase your sales and profits substantially.
4. Keeping away winter blues: this would be relevant in the parts of the world where the holiday season (late November, December and early January) coincides with the winter season. Now it is a well established fact that bright, colorful lights can help keep winter blues away. This then, is something you can achieve using holiday lighting.