What is discouraged: Definition and 29 Discussions

Hi Everyone, I am a brand new consultant that signed up on Friday. At first I was SO excited and inspired, but that has quickly worn off and been replaced with frustration and discouragement. You see, I have a very small group of friends and all of my family are 2,000 miles away on the other...

I become a PC Consultant end of April and still haven't had my first party!!! My sister was to have one early June, had to cancel because she just got back from vacation and did not have time. Then a close friend of mine was suppose to have one mid June, cancelled because it was Father's Day...

:sick: that about sums it up. It is June, a sell-a-thon month. I have $3500 in sales so far. My 1st line of 18, drum roll please..... $1000! Really?! :yuck:! If free products don't motivate them, I do not know what will. I need a new team! Sorry, just needed to rant a bit. I get a...

So, I've been doing PC for almost a year now. Started off doing really well, but it has seemed to fizzle out on me. I am really considering quitting, but I want to give it one more go before i give up. Any suggestions for getting things moving again? I really want to make this work. I love PC...

I have been doing this for more than 6 years. I did not recruit anyone for my first 2 years, because I did not know any better. I stepped up my business March of 2008. I promoted to director March 2009 and here I stay. My youngest starts school this September and I always said I wanted to...

I have a consultant, my only consistent one, who is really down right now. I can't seem to get her to see how AWESOME she's doing! Her sales are never lower than $2k and she makes her calls and really works her business. She attends meetings and implements the stuff she learns. She's pretty...

I am a new consultant and already qualified within my 30 days. Last night I did a party from someone outside of my circle of people I know. I thought I was going to get a lot of bookings. But there where over 25 people with to begin with, and midway through the show more people where showing...

I have a catalog host who's show closes on Monday. She is kinda bummed because she has only had two people order. I keep pushing her to make sure she has shown the catalog to everyone she knows. I have also let her know out of town friends and family can use my website to place orders. I...

I am so mad at my self:(. No matter ho hard i try to get bookings it never works. i just called so meany people for the 24 bookings in 24 hours and left over 7 messages and got some on the phon e but no booings. allmost all are older people that were from homeshows and i can remember that...

Okay so I got some leads from a Home & Garden show and I am really discouraged now. Out of the 9 that I got in touch with (spoke to a real live person) I got absolutely no bookings. I asked them if this was a good time to talk, had conversation, talked a little bit about the Home & Garden Show...

Well, my host for Saturday called and canceled tonight. I was really counting on her show to put me at over $2000 in sales this month. Guess that's what I get for counting my chickens before they hatch. I'm just very frustrated because now I have no bookings for August at all. I had hoped to get...

Now, if that title wasn't enough to make you want to skip over my post, I don't know what would!! Hey! I'm Kim from SC, and I'm LOVING my job! After signing two consultants, and giving up all my sooking shows for the next two months to them, I kinda had a hard time getting my shows back! I...

Hello Ladies, Feeling discouraged. My recruit has 2 recruits and one of them has a recruit. We all get together to cook once a month when possible. We met last Tuesday and shared ideas, tried a recipe and discussed it all. Then on Friday I saw that the recruit in my 3rd line had sent out...

As far as I know, my only show for March (and I take full responsibility for that problem!) is going to have ONE GUEST! Now this is what is really annoying me about this situation. I have one friend, we'll call Annie, who said she wanted a show in September. She eventually booked for 1/6...

This past week has been a huge boost for me and then a HUGE letdown. In the beginning I had 1 possible recruit, given out 4 business cards to strangers who really wanted to order and had a decent looking few weeks ahead of me for shows. Now its the end of the week. So far this has...

I recently had a $600 + show with no bookings at the show, so before it closed I called everyone and thanked them for coming and offered a free cooing show and a $15 gift certificate and NO ONE said yes:( :( Then I had a booth fair last friday I had one lady that might do a show and she accepted...

Thanks to everyone for their advice. Things have been going well with PC for me. My start just may be a little slower than some. But I'm happy with my progress! Thanks for the advice and words of encouragement. Deb

I am also very discouraged this month. I am so motivated but am having trouble getting the bookings! I've been making some phone calls but nobody ever calls me back! I really want to do 2 more shows by the 19th (which is next week!!) That is the end of my 90 days. I have one scheduled now...

I am kind of bummed right now. I have only 2 shows scheduled for August. I have only been doing 3-4 each month, but I really wanted to continue that and even go higher each month. I do have about 5 scheduled for September, but August is looking like a flop so far. I have tried calling...

Hi all, My April started out okay - had 4 shows booked. Not bad, but wanted more. As the month went on, 2 cancelled.. 1 held. Tonight's hostess called me 15 minutes before I was leaving and said that everyone on her RSVP list called that day and cancelled on her. The hostesses all "want" to...

I worked so hard to have February booked heavy for double points. Both of mu shows for this weekend have cancelled.......I am very discouraged. What is going on????

I really would like to achieve directorship by Mar. 1st. I currently have 3 recruits, one of which is qualified, one is in SS1 & the third just went inactive. I have a show on Jan. 25th & then have 5 in Feb. I really would like to make this happen, I'm just not sure how to go about it. I...

I just signed up and am well aware of the 6 shows I have to have. I hosted a show right before I signed up - so the majority of the people I invited just spent $, and when they filled out the cards I only received one interested person as far as hosting. Then my best friend said she would host...

This Pampered Chef thing feels like it's going nowhere. I had a woman call me last week to put an order in and it came to a $750 order. I was so excited...she said she had a couple more people at work that wanted to put in an order too. I told her to get those orders and I would put it all in...

I just wanted to share this with you. I know we all want to leave a show with at least one booking in our calendars and sometimes, that just doesn't happen. I did a show in July and had a great time. Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves and it was a $700 show. But I didn't get a...

I'm feeling pretty bummed out right now. After a totally empty August, I had 4 shows booked for Sept. I've done two of them, and sales-wise they were both quite successful. Both had about 10 people there. And I didn't get one booking. :( I have two more shows next week, but then nothing. I...

I am a stay at home mom, who would like to remain a stay at home mom, and was hoping that PC could provide our family with some extra income. I joined in May and have had only 2 shows!!!! Everyone is either on vacation or just too busy right now during the summer time. The few shows that I...

Hello Everyone! I had my 1st show last Monday and I was sweating bullets (litterally) and stumbling on my words. It didn't feel as easy as it looked when my recruiter did my show! And then, my 3rd out of the total of 4 shows I booked just cancelled. I thought I at least I had my contract...

I have been unable to book any shows other than my family and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've posted flyers on mailboxes, doorsteps, public notice boards. I'm offering additional free and discounted merchandise from my own pocket. I've got a window decal, website, and business cards. I'm...