Struggling to Balance Life & Business: My September Dilemma

[pamperedgirl3]

My Calander for September is completely full too! I have 8 cooking shows scheduled and two catalog shows - one of which I already have about $70 in orders come in. I can't do anymore in Sept, because I am pregnant and due in October, plus I still have to chase after my other three kids (3, 4 and 6) I have one more date left to book in October and then I'm taking a break from cooking shows until towards the end of November.

Sorry to hijack a little...Heather, when are you due? I'm due on October 13 with #2. I have 4 cooking & 2 catalog shows in September right now. Right now my last ones are the 21st & 22nd. I'm not sure how far into September to go--don't want my water breaking during a show! I'm thinking maybe the 27th. Catalog shows only for all of October. Then I have 4 people who want November shows already! I haven't set dates yet b/c I'm not sure how soon I'll want to go back, but I may start as early as Nov 1 or 3. I don't want to not do shows for too long & have to end up starting all over again!

 

[BethCooks4U]

Unless you do a demo of some sort you can't call it a cooking show.

Once I did a long distance show and the host made PC recipes in PC products and invited friends over and had me on the phone answering questions and giving tips. On the advice of a couple of director friends (I was a new consultant then) but against the advice of my director I called it a cooking show. I felt (as the DF's said) that I spent time with the guests during the show and the host did the physical part of it so it could be legitimately called a cooking show. Looking back though, I feel like I had to do too much justifying so I probably shouldn't have done that.

You have to look into your heart and decide what is going too far or not.


When I have a local catalog show and the host is doing a great job I will tell her to invite a friend or 2 over and we'll do a quick demo - I'll show them some products in person - THEN I will give them credit for a cooking show to reward their efforts.

 

[ChefHarri]

1st - $15 extra in products makes it a cooking show (everything else stays the same) The amount I'm asking my catalog show hosts to get is $400 to $500 - obviously I'm not going to be out that much and I won't be driving to shows, so I'll be saving on gas.

pamperedgirl3 - I'm due Oct. 19. I am doing shows through Oct. 9. I pretty regularly deliver about 6-7 days before my due date, so I should be good. Plus the only hosts I'm doing in that 1st week in Oct. are really good friends who know when I'm due, so if something happpens they are just doing catalog show. I plan to go back to doing show the 2nd or third week in November.

 

[BethCooks4U]

1st - $15 extra in products makes it a cooking show (everything else stays the same) The amount I'm asking my catalog show hosts to get is $400 to $500 - obviously I'm not going to be out that much and I won't be driving to shows, so I'll be saving on gas.

pamperedgirl3 - I'm due Oct. 19. I am doing shows through Oct. 9. I pretty regularly deliver about 6-7 days before my due date, so I should be good. Plus the only hosts I'm doing in that 1st week in Oct. are really good friends who know when I'm due, so if something happpens they are just doing catalog show. I plan to go back to doing show the 2nd or third week in November.

If you are paying the $15 yourself then it is still a catalog show to PC and there is no problem! You can do what you want to enhance the benefits to your host!

I was talking about changing a catalog show to a cooking show on PP or P3 and PC providing that benefit.

Sorry I misunderstood you.

 

[angmillar]

Thanks! The only thing is that it's hard for me to do a lot of host coaching from here. The time difference is 13 hours, so I haven't called very much.

That being said, I'm setting my clock here in Kentucky for 6 AM tomorrow, so I can get up and make those host calls. It'll be 7 PM in Oki, which is the usual time I make them.