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Adrian
Oh man, this is getting SO old. I'm new and I have hosted three parties in a row for myself over the last two months. In each case, I have sent out from 25 to 40 invitations and have had just ONE guest show up at each.
This is such an uncomfortable situation for both me and for the poor guest. In each case, the guest has been a good friend and has had a good time and placed a nice order, but it's just so awkward to have one guest to carry off the whole party.
I have tried sending E-mail invitations, Facebook invitations, mailed invitations, follow-up calls and everything else I can think of but it just drives me crazy. The women I'm inviting are all friends and neighbors I've known for years and some of them are big fans of PC, so I just can't imagine why they wouldn't show up for my shows. And the rough part is that I don't know until the last minute who is or isn't going to show up. Yesterday, I had 16 women out of 25 who hadn't RSVP'd one way or another, so I thought even if 5 or 6 of them showed up, I'd have a great show, but it just didn't happen.
Obviously, my sales have been extremely low and I haven't been able to get any bookings to carry forward and do some hopefully successful shows. I also have had several catalog parties that have bombed, including a fundraiser show that was absolutely tragic. The info went out to dozens of people, but only the two organizers placed any orders. I felt especially bad about that one because I had really wanted to help the charity.
Interestingly enough, I know exactly what the problem is - it's just negative thinking on my part. I'm a big believer in positive thinking and normally I'm able to produce great results in other areas with positive visualizations and having confidence in myself. But the problem is once you've had a string of negative outcomes like this, it is so hard to not believe that it will happen again and again.
I'm supposed to have a men's only show next week for Mother's Day and I'm just hesitating about wanting to even do it because I feel like this is even more of a risk than usual and after all these disastrous shows, I don't know if I can pull it off. What's a girl to do???
Thanks!
Adrian
This is such an uncomfortable situation for both me and for the poor guest. In each case, the guest has been a good friend and has had a good time and placed a nice order, but it's just so awkward to have one guest to carry off the whole party.
I have tried sending E-mail invitations, Facebook invitations, mailed invitations, follow-up calls and everything else I can think of but it just drives me crazy. The women I'm inviting are all friends and neighbors I've known for years and some of them are big fans of PC, so I just can't imagine why they wouldn't show up for my shows. And the rough part is that I don't know until the last minute who is or isn't going to show up. Yesterday, I had 16 women out of 25 who hadn't RSVP'd one way or another, so I thought even if 5 or 6 of them showed up, I'd have a great show, but it just didn't happen.
Obviously, my sales have been extremely low and I haven't been able to get any bookings to carry forward and do some hopefully successful shows. I also have had several catalog parties that have bombed, including a fundraiser show that was absolutely tragic. The info went out to dozens of people, but only the two organizers placed any orders. I felt especially bad about that one because I had really wanted to help the charity.
Interestingly enough, I know exactly what the problem is - it's just negative thinking on my part. I'm a big believer in positive thinking and normally I'm able to produce great results in other areas with positive visualizations and having confidence in myself. But the problem is once you've had a string of negative outcomes like this, it is so hard to not believe that it will happen again and again.
I'm supposed to have a men's only show next week for Mother's Day and I'm just hesitating about wanting to even do it because I feel like this is even more of a risk than usual and after all these disastrous shows, I don't know if I can pull it off. What's a girl to do???
Thanks!
Adrian
