Catering Show Struggles: How to Handle Three Events at Once?

[PCSarahjm]

I had 3 cattys going on and they weren't as successful as I thought they would be. So what do I do? 1 is at 175 , 2 at 75. Do I combined them all into one show and have the products shipped to me or what? Then how do I divide the benefits? What have you more experienced cheffers done in the past with something like this.

 

[sailortena]

The first show at $175, submit like normal and give the host her 15% discount and the host special. The other two shows combine as one, and either have them delivered to your house or special shipped to the guests (don't eat the shipping charges yourself, however.)Tell the hosts that only collected $75 in orders that they have to meet guest sales requirements of $150 to get any host benefits. Since neither of them earned benefits, they don't get any.

 

[DebbieSAChef]

Here's an ideaWell since they are catty shows, the limit on that for $10 in FREE products is $200 so it seems that all three hosts missed out on that.

If you combined all three shows ($175, $75 and $75) you would have a total of $325 and could explain to your hosts that you will be combining three shows that didn't quite make it to the FREE product level and send in their items that way to give everyone the $4 shipping. You could keep the FREE $25 in stuff for yourself, because technically it's like you collected all these orders from individuals to make one big show.
Offer the hosts a 20% discount on anything they would like to order and if you want to you could offer the half price item to the host with the most orders collected or the host special. Whichever one you don't want. Since they didn't make the $200 level they shouldn't expect FREE stuff but the one host with the $175 is technically still a show (with no free products) and may want the Host special. Hope it works out for you.

Debbie

 

[susan g]

If you haven't done any other sales this month, I would definately split them into 2 shows so you earn the "2 sharp products" for holding/submitting 2 June shows. Otherwise, I would combine as 1 show and divide benefits like this:

$175 host: $15 free and the 1/2 price item

the 2 $75 hosts: $5 free each and offer to let them order with the host so they get a discount of 20% on anything else, just let them know these items won't be in their own name on a receipt. Most people could care less.

I would try to reward everyone who collected orders a little because you never know when they will come back to you with a bigger order/show.

 

[pckelly]

I would submit the 175 and put the 2 75.00 ones together and split it between hosts. Which, is only a 15% off products for both of them. I don't quite know how to deal with the host special. Neither of them got the 150 they need, so I wouldn't offer the host special to them, you purchase it for yourself if you want them!!