erinhoward
- 29
Okay, I have had no firm bookings for my last several shows. Talk me off a ledge here - I am feeling very discouraged.
At my first show in January, I got 2 bookings. 2nd show, 1 booking but the woman emailed the next day to cancel, I think she had a weird dynamic with her husband and he didn't want her to do it. 3rd, 4th, 5th shows NO bookings, although I did get a few people who said I could call them in a few months after they moved into their new house and so on. 1st show in Feb no bookings, but that one was weird for several reasons that weren't my fault so I"m almost not counting that one.
Tonight I thought I had a great show - chocolate martinis and microwave chocolate velvet strawberry cake, crowd mostly in their 20s but some older (50ish) people, they loved the martinis and were wowed by the cake being done so fast, I gave helpful tips... but out of 8 people who ordered no bookings, 1 woman was thinking about it but ultimately wouldn't do it.
I always do the booking slide, and I always ask every single person at checkout if they want to book. I have also started bringing products related to current or upcoming host specials and talking about them during the show, and mentioning that they will be a host special. (Before I was doing that only if they were a part of the recipe, now I do it either way).
I'm getting really discouraged. I've only been doing this for 5 months and I'm a pretty laid back person so I'm not someone who is going to dazzle people just by the force of my charisma into booking a show but I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything weird. Maybe I am just having a bad streak? Like a baseball player in a slump?
At my first show in January, I got 2 bookings. 2nd show, 1 booking but the woman emailed the next day to cancel, I think she had a weird dynamic with her husband and he didn't want her to do it. 3rd, 4th, 5th shows NO bookings, although I did get a few people who said I could call them in a few months after they moved into their new house and so on. 1st show in Feb no bookings, but that one was weird for several reasons that weren't my fault so I"m almost not counting that one.
Tonight I thought I had a great show - chocolate martinis and microwave chocolate velvet strawberry cake, crowd mostly in their 20s but some older (50ish) people, they loved the martinis and were wowed by the cake being done so fast, I gave helpful tips... but out of 8 people who ordered no bookings, 1 woman was thinking about it but ultimately wouldn't do it.
I always do the booking slide, and I always ask every single person at checkout if they want to book. I have also started bringing products related to current or upcoming host specials and talking about them during the show, and mentioning that they will be a host special. (Before I was doing that only if they were a part of the recipe, now I do it either way).
I'm getting really discouraged. I've only been doing this for 5 months and I'm a pretty laid back person so I'm not someone who is going to dazzle people just by the force of my charisma into booking a show but I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything weird. Maybe I am just having a bad streak? Like a baseball player in a slump?