Do You Take Your Laptop to Shows?

[cwinter474]

I just purchased a netbook for this exact purpose. It is much smaller than a full size laptop and MUCH cheaper!!! It only weighs 3.5 lbs and cost $385. I will be able to carry it around during the day too. That way I always have my contacts with me!!!

I am so excited.

Ive been looking at these myself, but wondered how much memory P3 would require. Are you running p3 on your notebook? what are the specs of your notebook?

 

[cwinter474]

Becky - It is just shy on a couple of the recommended requirements, but not by much. It exceeds all of the minimum requirements. There is pleanty of memory to run P3.

It is the ASUS Eee PC 1000HA 10-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel ATOM N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery)

Recommended CPU is 2.0 GHZ and this is 1.6 and the screen resolution is 1024X600 and the recommended is 1024X768.

I just got it on Friday. I am going to download P3 from the Consultant's Corner tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes. I do need to figure out how to get my current data transfered. I think I am going to add it to my home network and copy it. I need to ask my dad about the details. If I try it on my own who knows what will happen!

I hope that helps.

UPDATE????? I am very excited to here how it is handling P3....

 

[sklay723]

I used to take mine, but it got to the point where it was just too much time away from focusing on my customers. Now I just use OOF's and write any additional notes on there, and I use a calculator to give totals. I'm not too bad with the math as long as the calculator is there to back me up! So far I've only had one issue where the wrong item number was written down on an order form, but that was really easy to fix when I was doing the entry at home so it wasn't a big deal.

 

[chefsteph07]

I've been taking mine that I got for Christmas, and I like it, I like not having to enter orders when I get home and I like telling the host EXACTLY what their show total is when I leave, I also think it makes me look pretty professional. The first time I took it, I got a comment about how nice it was.

 

[christinaspc]

I love taking my laptop to my shows.... One night I tired leaving it at home and omg I couldn't believe how much time it saved me having it there and me doing all the work. I was just totally amazed I then promised myself that I wouldn't ever leave it at home again.

 

[kcmckay]

I've had my laptop since my first show. It broke down after first one and my next few I didn't have it with me. I don't really remember the difference right now as that was over a year ago. I've taken it to every show since. I would probably be lost without it, but some of you make good points that it does take away some face time. I might try something new next time that has been suggesting in my cluster. Full Service Checkout I have a bit of a struggle with because people tend to hover etc. My last live show I was ok with people listened about letting me do one on one. But what was suggested before was to collect the orders then call each guest up one at a time. I may try that next time that way while they are eating/sociallizing I can enter in all the information I need and then call them up and do my asking of selling/hosting/etc. I'm just not sure how to go about it because I don't like to take up a ton of the host/guests time?

 

[darlinclem]

I've had my laptop since my first show. It broke down after first one and my next few I didn't have it with me. I don't really remember the difference right now as that was over a year ago. I've taken it to every show since. I would probably be lost without it, but some of you make good points that it does take away some face time. I might try something new next time that has been suggesting in my cluster. Full Service Checkout I have a bit of a struggle with because people tend to hover etc. My last live show I was ok with people listened about letting me do one on one. But what was suggested before was to collect the orders then call each guest up one at a time. I may try that next time that way while they are eating/sociallizing I can enter in all the information I need and then call them up and do my asking of selling/hosting/etc. I'm just not sure how to go about it because I don't like to take up a ton of the host/guests time?

Have the host collect the orders for you. Then you can get them from her and other guests won't hover. Then you can still call people one at a time and they aren't going to care if the host is the one in the background.I got my laptop before Christmas and am SOOOO glad I did. I found I was being dimed and quartered to death. People would write down the wrong price and I would add according to that price only to find out when I got home that they were 25-50 cents off (usually). I ate it because most of my shows are out of town and it isn't worth the gas or stamp to get that little bit. Then I looked at how much it added up! ARGH! My laptop makes it so the computer is correcting the price and not me (then I don't look like a bad guy or embarrass them).

 

[legacypc46]

I can't imagine not taking my laptop to a show anymore. I tell my guests to bring their order up when they're ready, placing it at the bottom of the pile. I then call them back when I get to their order. Everyone seems to benefit this way: they get to socialize with each other more and I don't have a crowd around me (which gives me real one on one time with the customer I'm working with).