I have a show tomorrow night, and I have worked with this host before. She had a decent party last time, but wasn't happy with her sales. She didn't do much of what I coached her to do last time.(mailed the invites late and didn't do any RSVP Calls) She said she wanted to have another better party someday, so I kept in touch.
Fast forward to this month. I have called her everytime we have a special that would interest her, but she NEVER returns a call( I mean NEVER)
Well I run my business a little differently now, I mail the invites myself and call people for the host if they give me numbers. So the first week of Feb she answers the phone and we book Feb 12th. I say great I will call you tonight after my show and you can give me all the addresses. (she doesn't use the internet so I have to hand write them) I call several times no answer no call back the rest of the week.
She finally leaves me a message right before the 12th that she wants to make it the 17 th which works for me.
Ok trying to make it short here, I don't get the addresses from her until the 12th after 8 o clock at night,( I had told her if she got them to me by six I would try to mail them by 9 that night which is the last pick up at my post office. It took forever to get the addresses as she was looking them up in the phone book as she went! So Friday I am sick ( I am 3 months pregnant and still have a lot of bad days) so I get them to the post office just a minute after 9 and am praying they get picked up.
Anyway yesterday I realize that there is no mail today:cry::cry:
So today I have called everybody that I have phone numbers for 22 calls. and then talked to her because there are about 16 more people I dont have numbers for. She is not sure if she can get them to me blah, blah.
Then she says I knew this was too late to invite people (which I gave her a choice to pick a different day in Feb) and spends 20 minutes telling me that the dates I do shows on aren't good for most people. I work on Tues, Thurs, and Sat. And I even offered to open up a Fri just for her!
Sorry this is so long, I just know from past experience that she will do this all night tomorrow if it is a small show and I am afraid I will have trouble hiding my annoyance. Thanks for listening.
Fast forward to this month. I have called her everytime we have a special that would interest her, but she NEVER returns a call( I mean NEVER)
Well I run my business a little differently now, I mail the invites myself and call people for the host if they give me numbers. So the first week of Feb she answers the phone and we book Feb 12th. I say great I will call you tonight after my show and you can give me all the addresses. (she doesn't use the internet so I have to hand write them) I call several times no answer no call back the rest of the week.
She finally leaves me a message right before the 12th that she wants to make it the 17 th which works for me.
Ok trying to make it short here, I don't get the addresses from her until the 12th after 8 o clock at night,( I had told her if she got them to me by six I would try to mail them by 9 that night which is the last pick up at my post office. It took forever to get the addresses as she was looking them up in the phone book as she went! So Friday I am sick ( I am 3 months pregnant and still have a lot of bad days) so I get them to the post office just a minute after 9 and am praying they get picked up.
Anyway yesterday I realize that there is no mail today:cry::cry:
So today I have called everybody that I have phone numbers for 22 calls. and then talked to her because there are about 16 more people I dont have numbers for. She is not sure if she can get them to me blah, blah.
Then she says I knew this was too late to invite people (which I gave her a choice to pick a different day in Feb) and spends 20 minutes telling me that the dates I do shows on aren't good for most people. I work on Tues, Thurs, and Sat. And I even offered to open up a Fri just for her!
Sorry this is so long, I just know from past experience that she will do this all night tomorrow if it is a small show and I am afraid I will have trouble hiding my annoyance. Thanks for listening.