So, I started this thing off with lots of enthusiasm, but now I'm starting to get the pre-qualified blues! I had 5 shows scheduled (3 cooking, 2 catty) for my first 30 days (deadline 3/26). Now, it seems to be falling apart!
#1) A coworker is hosting a show but had to reschedule because 90% of her invites couldn't come on that day. She could only reschedule for the 28th! Easter weekend screws us up (also we're teachers and we have spring break that week before so a lot of us are traveling).
#2) A friend in CA is doing a catalog show and even though I wrote in the host packet, in an email, and told him over the phone to NOT have his guests place orders on the website, he told them too! He didn't tell me this until the customers had already received their products. *rolls eyes*
#3) A local friend of mine is hosting a cooking show on 3/22. He won't return my calls! He's kinda flaky like that, so it's nothing new, but now is just not the time to flake out.
So assuming #2 and #3 don't come through, that leaves me with 1 cooking show and 1 catalog show. Mom is trying to do another catalog show for me, so hopefully that will happen.
I don't want to host a show for my friends because...well, it's hard to explain. But basically most of my friends are catty gay men. I hosted a show back in October and they did nothing but make fun of the consultant the whole time. So, I'm not that comfortable doing one in front of them. Now as for my coworkers (4 of whom are doing shows, but after 3/26) I'm very happy to practice and look like a fool in front of them.
Help!
#1) A coworker is hosting a show but had to reschedule because 90% of her invites couldn't come on that day. She could only reschedule for the 28th! Easter weekend screws us up (also we're teachers and we have spring break that week before so a lot of us are traveling).
#2) A friend in CA is doing a catalog show and even though I wrote in the host packet, in an email, and told him over the phone to NOT have his guests place orders on the website, he told them too! He didn't tell me this until the customers had already received their products. *rolls eyes*
#3) A local friend of mine is hosting a cooking show on 3/22. He won't return my calls! He's kinda flaky like that, so it's nothing new, but now is just not the time to flake out.
So assuming #2 and #3 don't come through, that leaves me with 1 cooking show and 1 catalog show. Mom is trying to do another catalog show for me, so hopefully that will happen.
I don't want to host a show for my friends because...well, it's hard to explain. But basically most of my friends are catty gay men. I hosted a show back in October and they did nothing but make fun of the consultant the whole time. So, I'm not that comfortable doing one in front of them. Now as for my coworkers (4 of whom are doing shows, but after 3/26) I'm very happy to practice and look like a fool in front of them.
Help!