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aBrief History of My First 30 Days...

In summary, this woman has been doing cooking shows for 30 days and has 8 shows booked. She is motivated by PC$ and hopes to hit $2500 in sales by the end of the month. Her biggest problem is that her July hosts have been terrible and she is away for 3 weeks in July-August.
AnnieBee
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Or not so brief! Here goes, sorry it is so long!

Well, it’s been a while since I finally started, and I’ve been meaning to give an up-date on my start (after you all helped me so much while I was waiting to sign up.

My first 30 Days ends on Thursday, and tomorrow (wed) I will have my 8th show (4 cooking, 4 cat), and if that show has $400 or more, I will hit $2500 for my first 30 days!! That means $500 in PC dollars as I got the extra $100 for signing in May – woo-hoo!!

I am pretty happy with my start – I had hoped for maybe 1 or 2 more cooking shows to really pack it in (I ended up with nothing this week or the last week of June), and I had thought I’d get a couple more cat shows (my sister has been flaky, was supposed to do one…). My (lofty) goal was 12 shows, and I’d have loved to get the $3k for SAT, but I am happy that I got the $1500, and $500 in PC dollars is not bad at all, I think!!

And of course there is my commission – which should be around $450 for June :)

Of course my 8 shows include my flop of an open house, but at least I got it to qualify with an order from a friend in texas, and my whole neighborhood now has my info and a recipe, so it’s not all bad! I already have had 5 orders on my web-site (4 for the outlet) so I am pretty happy about that!

For my next 60 days, I have 6 shows booked so far, and if my sister actually does her cat show, then I just need one more show to get the 8 shows (and hopefully another $2500), which will get me another $200 in PC dollars. Can you tell that I am motivated by the PC$?? :)

Plus I guess I’d get another bonus for $5k in my first 90 days, I think.

I guess the icing on the cake would be a couple of recruits too!!

I figure I might as well aim high! Once I’m past my first 90 days I will be slowing down a little or my DH will probably get a little upset with me… Although closer to Christmas I know I’ll want to gear it up a bit again. Hopefully once we start using my commission to pay down our car loan more and buy a lap-top, he’ll cheer up!!

So my goals right now are:

Tomorrow's show - $400 (or more) in sales. I have a motivated host with the July special, so I think this will work out.

July – through Sept 8: Book 2 more shows to get to 8 shows, aim for $2500 in sales.

One or 2 recruits would be awesome!

My biggest problem is that my July hosts have been terrible. 2 have already had to reschedule, the third isn’t sure about keeping her date. I was really hoping that these would be great shows sales-wise, but my neighbour pretty much told me she is “just doing it to help me out” and is not motivated by the special. She has just re-scheduled and hadn’t sent out invites or done much for her show.... Of course, what would really help me out would be to have a great show… But, I AM thankful for her doing this, so I shouldn’t complain. I am away for 3 weeks in Jul-Aug, my DH has a conference for one week, so I can’t do shows then, and when I get back from England in August I will be sooo jet-lagged (and have 3 jet-lagged kids to deal with!!).
 
That is an AWESOME start - keep it up and keep up the excitement!
 
That's incredible!! Way to go. Keep up that enthusiasm and you will go FAR!:)
 
You are doing awesome! Keep up the great job.
 
What a great start!

Seems like you've been doing this for longer, since you joined CS before you joined PC!:D
 
You are doing a super job!

Get all the PC$$ you can right now! It's a great opportunity!

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ChefBeckyD said:
What a great start!

Seems like you've been doing this for longer, since you joined CS before you joined PC!:D

I know! I'm sure my DH feels as though I've been doing this longer too :p But somehow, I'm still no-where near getting a star :(

But really, I can credit you guys (and all that time before I finally started!) with helping me to start off this well.

Thanks everyone, I love y'all! :love: :chef:
 
Way to Go!!!
 
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Congratulations! Isn't that a great feeling! :)

I'm kind of in the same boat, except that I was about $200 short of earning the $2500 in sales. My 30th day was July 3rd.

AnnieBee said:
I was really hoping that these would be great shows sales-wise, but my neighbour pretty much told me she is “just doing it to help me out” and is not motivated by the special. She has just re-scheduled and hadn’t sent out invites or done much for her show.... Of course, what would really help me out would be to have a great show… But, I AM thankful for her doing this, so I shouldn’t complain.

So many of my family and friends said this, too! Drove me crazy! Just to help me out, but then they almost didn't qualify. Plus the catalog shows that I spent postage on mailing catalogs, and now the receipts, earned just a tiny commission. (Which, by the way, I felt like deleting the line in the Thank You letter that says how much they saved by hosting and then how much they would've earned as a consultant--because it was a very small amount. :) )But I was grateful, because it did work out. I did reach my goals. I did get those great PC$! The only sad thing was that these first 8 shows I had didn't bring me in any new bookings. :( I am going to do Customer care calls and hope that'll change though! :)
 
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Oh, that is too bad about the $200 short. But congratulations on your 8 shows, that's great!

I am looking forward to spending some PC$, but I am going to try to save maybe $200 for paperwork. So I need to figure out what things to buy for my shows, and then maybe a few things for home too. If I get the $400 in sales for tomorrow's show, I'll be so happy! Of course, if it doesn't make it I will be pretty bummed...

I just hope my July and August shows really come through...

Thanks for all your encouragement ladies!
 
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Annie, you're off to a great start! Enjoy your $500 PC$!!!
 

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