Halloween Boom On Business Arena
As soon as school starts in August or September, we start to get bombarded by mail catalogs of Halloween costumes and decorations, holiday gift ideas, business advertising offers, and and everyone starts to make plans for celebrating the holiday. What we don’t always see is the heavy load of incoming work the holiday brings to local businesses. The most obvious of these are the handful of Halloween superstores spring up, along with “For Lease” signs just below their street marquis, emphasizing their temporary nature.
Some seasonal booms we may not see are the beginning of the holiday rush for most companies. Beauty and makeup businesses are an obvious target, with the high demand for cosmetics and makeup to complete a costume. Not only do people amp up their normal makeup with department store brands like MAC, they also raid theatrics stores and websites for greasepaint and stage makeup. With increased use of online stores to purchase costumes and accessories, courier services experience a spike in delivery volume as well. This spike may die down in the beginning of November, but always picks up just before Thanksgiving as the holiday season packs delivery trucks from floor to ceiling.
Another amped-up industry that may go unnoticed is the video production industry. All types of businesses want to appear “with it,” so many want to feature Halloween-themed commercials on TV or promotional videos on their websites. Many of those businesses don’t have the means to create a quality piece, so they enlist the help of a video production service.
The film industry also gets a little busier. As for independent filmmakers, Halloween is a gold mine. At any other time, it would be incredibly difficult to assemble a 150-zombie march, but if people are already assembling, why not ask for permission to use that for footage? On a smaller scale, movie theaters capitalize on the general public’s need for fear. Scary movies are very popular at this time of year, and the movies that draw only a handful of people at other times of the year experience mass attendance during the second half of October. Private, locally-owned theaters often bring back older horror movies and classics, further maximizing their profits from the Halloween spirit.
If retail companies, courier services and other industries are booming during the Halloween season, it may be a good idea to figure out a way for your business to capitalize and cash in on the opportunities.