How is the political climate in your country affecting sales?

[1974Mustang]

I’m in the US and the political climate here isn’t affecting my sales. But a bud of mine has been telling me about how his sales are at the lowest they’ve been in over 20 years.

Seeing all the threads on politics here got me wondering how many others here are being affected by the political climate shifting in their country.

 

[indianmojojojo]

From what I observed majority of the people aren't bothered about politics, protests etc

Most of them have their time consumed in their day to days. Work, family, home.

Probably big corporations will get affected.

But imo day to day mom and pop stores, small businesses, local neighborhood factory and family run ventures will be fine.

Market conditions or fear of future recession may affect the sales. But it's nothing to do with any political party. Left or right. Majority don't bother.

 

[t2van]

It's not political I don't think.

I'm seeing issues with larger clients who rely on funding not getting it or having higher costs (rent, tax, staff costs etc mainly due to the gov - so I guess thats political but nothing that focuses on global events) so they are not spending due to uncertainty. We had a client go from ordering 50,000 units down to 5,000 because they had to self fund it as an example.

B2C we finishing the month with (although there is still tomorrow) a high of 15.05% some lines have done better than others, happy with the growth BUT it could and should be much better some lines are very low for this time of year.

Our B2B side of things I'm 100% expecting later invoices to be paid, people asking for longer terms due to cash flow etc.

 

[SilverClouds]

My sales are absolutely tragic lately but polish employers and clients are generally unwilling to pay for work (for example people on 9 to 5 sometimes aren't paid for 3 months before they get pissed and quit) which results in your typical, average poles mass emigrating for work abroad so yeah. I think it's slightly worse than usual for last couple years, worse still recently but it kinda was always bad... Poland always had a problem lol.

So yes, it's worse, but the job and gig market was never good in the first place. I scrape by somehow because I take money upfront and refuse to do unlimited revisions, etc. Like idk, lately did an audit and strategy for a guy that gets banned a lot and that's it, for that amount use the strategy yourself... If you want whole campaign setup pay more but if you don't it's fine too because I charged for an audit already. Honestly this is also why I'm leaning more towards course route nowadays, even if a bit cringe, since I do a bit of paid audits already so might as well mass distribute a digital product... As in, complete self-service, want shit from me then go, pay, download it yourself, already pre-written/recorded, read/watch it yourself, do the changes yourself and if you want custom audit pay more and if you want full service, access to me and me actually doing the thing then pay more. That's the only way to solve this other than going full blackhat and robbing people lol (hey, don't complain, I'm slavic after all ). People need to learn that if they pay less, yes, they do receive something good and valuable, but less than if they paid more. Want more? Pay more. No? Then piss off, I charged some already, bye bye. I see also polish freelancers in groups complain in the comments, right under clients' posts... If the offer is shitty people openly complain lol. Like, why would we want to work for free?

But yeah, Poland always had a problem. Yes, we do have nice stores, clean streets and are developed, our passports are in top 10 (I think 6 nowadays in the Passport Index? It changes all the time) but it's unstable country plagued by shitty job market, nationalism and religious zealotry (I don't care about Jan Paul II's favourite cake, stop talking about this to me), it's absolutely unliveable if you're not christian like I'm not, it's not completely sovereign even if it claims to be (lots of american and german meddling there), currently Ukraine tries to take it over... It has problems. But still, we have tons of small entrepreneurship, we do some basic business with each other, unlike freelancers from countries that focus on foreign clients only. We have a healthy mix of cash, bank transfers, debit/credit card and digital transactions (like BLIK). I'm not a poor girl from slums or some deep province so not really impressed by some random passport bros approaching (somebody please explain to these dudes that to get me interested they'd have to buy me an apartment/house or AT LEAST gift gold jewelry on a regular basis, I don't cook and clean because that's what restaurants and cleaning companies are for and generally if you want cheap girl you might want to skip Poland or if you really insist on banging a polish girl then maybe try with the ones that live off welfare idk). It's not a tier 3 country lol. And even actual 'tier 3' countries aren't as bad as people make them out to be, lived in one for last 2 years almost and it was a positive experience and nice adventure. Hell, even that proves that poles aren't as broke as you make us out to be, if we digital nomad in Asia just like the westerners do then obviously you can't expect me to be all impressed by some broke dudes like thai girls (...? ) are. Like, basically I could be a passport sis if I wanted and you go all passport bro on me .
Here, this artist is polish:

Like... Come on.

But regardless of us being kinda broke kinda not (hey, Central Europe trope right there for ya... Kinda eastern, kinda western at the same time) I would be seriously surprised if there were any Poland on the map after WW3:

Let's see if there will be any country to return to after my travels .

 

[polecat]

For me SEO world never being affected by politics much or ever overall people still pay all the same.

Americans have normal, strange debates online about politics which normally result in giving each side insults for the whole time or most of the day.

I was a moderator on American politics site before it was a very odd experience

 

[roydan]

To make my point I'll skip my long 3000 word explanation that war is a political status, just assume it is.

There were so many businesses that completely shut down after Oct 7, some are still fighting to get back on their feet. Mine didn't take that big of a hit, some clients paused and got back a few months later but thankfully I'm well hedged in working in different countries so my agency sometime fells it, but it doesn't affect my household.
I remember only once when we withheld salaries, but next month it was back to normal.

Now, the tension with Iran is a bit weird. Business here want to see how it plays out before making a long term commitment to a marketing agency (not because they are locked in a contract, which I don't like to do, but because it's naturally a long process).

Honestly, the worst thing I experienced from the previous cycle with Iran is the ILS that got very strong compared to the USD, which affected our payments from other countries quite a bit.

 

[TheVigilante]

Honestly we earn here in Dollars so idk but yes things can get costly but the dollar to inr conversion benefit is definitely there

Maybe Indians are at an advantage here?

@indianmojojojo what say?

 

[polecat]

Honestly we earn here in Dollars so idk but yes things can get costly but the dollar to inr conversion benefit is definitely there

Maybe Indians are at an advantage here?

@indianmojojojo what say?

If I ever pay you I will include into the money simple term you must adopt two ferrrts or no payment giving to you