Intrepid_Chef
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I'm just a LITTLE frustrated at my slow start. I know it will all turn out eventually, but still ....
* My "two open houses" that were supposed to be enough for two parties turned into barely enough sales for a show. Actually, I'm STILL $50 short of the $150 but I am waiting on a customer who has not turned in her order. I have even offered to drive 30 minutes from my house just to pick it up! Meanwhile, my OTHER customers are hoping to have their stuff by Turkey Day. (If it ships as quickly as my kit, and some of the recent shows my director has told me about ... they still might have a good chance if I get the order in the next day or two. How can I MAKE her turn her order in? The bad news is my first show is TOAST without her order!
• My only two guests at my second show both booked catalog shows. However, I already knew one was going to book, and I'm hoping it does as well as if it was the in-person show she'd already planned. If both meet their goals, that's $500 in sales ... but I know how hard those goals can be.
• I do have one more in-person show ... my sisters, at the end of the month.
• And ... I have one $50 order for a "December show" but no December show. My 30th day is 12/4, so I'm hoping to have it in by then. I'm fearing that it will be hard to scrape $150 in orders together by that date.
All in all ... I was HOPING to hit $1250 by my first 30 days, but even if every show does as well as all the hosts hope ... it still is going to be very hard. And I have NO second show and no plans to submit one ... and it's a little hard to have a "mystery host" show when you just had a catalog show!
Meanwhile ... my recruiter is pushing me to get 4 shows in by the 30th so she can get some incentive.
Just needed to vent.
Waaaaaaahhhhh!
* My "two open houses" that were supposed to be enough for two parties turned into barely enough sales for a show. Actually, I'm STILL $50 short of the $150 but I am waiting on a customer who has not turned in her order. I have even offered to drive 30 minutes from my house just to pick it up! Meanwhile, my OTHER customers are hoping to have their stuff by Turkey Day. (If it ships as quickly as my kit, and some of the recent shows my director has told me about ... they still might have a good chance if I get the order in the next day or two. How can I MAKE her turn her order in? The bad news is my first show is TOAST without her order!
• My only two guests at my second show both booked catalog shows. However, I already knew one was going to book, and I'm hoping it does as well as if it was the in-person show she'd already planned. If both meet their goals, that's $500 in sales ... but I know how hard those goals can be.
• I do have one more in-person show ... my sisters, at the end of the month.
• And ... I have one $50 order for a "December show" but no December show. My 30th day is 12/4, so I'm hoping to have it in by then. I'm fearing that it will be hard to scrape $150 in orders together by that date.
All in all ... I was HOPING to hit $1250 by my first 30 days, but even if every show does as well as all the hosts hope ... it still is going to be very hard. And I have NO second show and no plans to submit one ... and it's a little hard to have a "mystery host" show when you just had a catalog show!
Meanwhile ... my recruiter is pushing me to get 4 shows in by the 30th so she can get some incentive.
Just needed to vent.
Waaaaaaahhhhh!