Rainmaking

Sales is everything. The only time a products or services based business is making money is when face-to-face with a buyer or a seller in a buying or a selling situation. So, Beautiful Bracelets we are energetically searching out new selling opportunities. This is not quite the kind of product that one can sell on the street like coat hangers, sunglasses, peaks, flags (think World Soccer Cup 2010) or the countless other products one gets approached with at robots. Go where the customers are. Especially to start with. The ideal scenario would be to hire a stand at a Trade Show where Buyers from large retail corporates frequent, but those shows are not on the Calendar this month. Guess where we’ll be next year! But for the moment, it’s small time venues: craft markets, any school or corporate that will allow a walk-in to scout their employees in case they want a Beautiful Bracelets. Various opportunities have already been negotiated, for dates falling within the 6 Week Challenge. Some opportunities like certain Christmas Fairs are also confirmed but these dates will only materialise after the Challenge is ended. This is such a wonderful business it is certainly not going to fold after the Challenge ends, but of course the idea is to WIN it!

And then we have to juggle with all the aspects of running and managing the business, taking care of orders arranging deliveries, designing new bracelets, keeping up with the demand by maintaining production and quality control. A new business start up is extremely challenging on one’s resources of time and energy.

But it is also so much FUN!