grace
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I am having a bad day well feels like a bad week month etc at moment. I had got all excited at the start of the week when i recieved a phone call from a company called wedding daze in dorset, they basically promote businesses to brides etc and asked if I would be interested in being in there mag. Being a little wrapped up in the excitement that someone had actually phoned i totally forgott that I would probably have to pay.
Today the rep came and went through it, well it is quite a large base, www.weddingdaze.co.uk one would be listed in there very lovely glossy mag, and under that website with a link to my web site etc, also would get a free monthly listing of all the brides etc getting married in order to contact them and offer my services, they would also gove out my leaflets to all peeps that came to there shop or phoned for a mag etc. It sounds great and yes perhaps I could get a lot of business but its £487.62 inc vat per year. Ok maybe not a great deal of money I don't know but I have none :|.
Basically although i hate admiting it but I have been taking things very very slow since i decided to get back into this trade and side of things after taking a huge long break from beauty therapy so returned with the idea of staying upon the nail side of things to start with, work for myself and try to get a good rep, however I have not done a lot of advertising just word of mouth realy, this would be why my client base is so so small you could call it a hobby not a career, basically I can count my clients on one hand for pete sake ahhhhhhh.
So my problem is which way do i go what is best to do, I have no money, i am all maxed up still on my overdraft and credit card, my products are running seriously low, and my retail is crying out for a restock, yes even with my sneeze load of clients I do manage to sell things weird or what. Any how I don't know whether to just go out and sell myself a bit popping flyers about a bit more to save a bit of money or go for it all in a big way and try this wedding daze dont ask me how i could afford it I dont know but need some ideas to play with if you get my drift.
Olympia is fast aproaching and I was so hoping to get some new stuff there and try and re stock, but now the stupid car tax is due and the nasty council tax and I feel like I am going backwards down the stream dispite rowing faster and faster up it. I refuse to give in, I will be successful one day. I want to do a creative conversion course also but have to wait a little longer to do that well only 5 months now, still seems an age but hey ho.
Bleeting on also, i decided to create a nice portfolio of my nail art and nails, to perhaos take round some of the local shops perhaps wedding shops to see if they liked them and would pop a poster up in there window or recomend me however i spent the whole day using my poor friend as a model yesturday, snapping shots of her hands nails and re spraying after respraying buffing polishing etc to find out today after taking the film in that my camera is pants and all the photos are useless, yep i need a digital camera, but i havent got one and I dont even know anyone with one, it just gets better by the min hey. I have put photos on my website that are very poor quality and although i have tried hard i am rather ashamed of my lame effort, so am reluctant to let anyone see it.
In case you had not guessed I am on a real downer today and just need a little perking up with some any ideas, my husband cant think of anything, but then he is just a football freak not into nails, ahhhhhhh.
Ok im zipping my mouth now before I turn everyone suicidal, my spellings are terrible so I appologise for this.
Help help help.
Grace x
I am having a bad day well feels like a bad week month etc at moment. I had got all excited at the start of the week when i recieved a phone call from a company called wedding daze in dorset, they basically promote businesses to brides etc and asked if I would be interested in being in there mag. Being a little wrapped up in the excitement that someone had actually phoned i totally forgott that I would probably have to pay.
Today the rep came and went through it, well it is quite a large base, www.weddingdaze.co.uk one would be listed in there very lovely glossy mag, and under that website with a link to my web site etc, also would get a free monthly listing of all the brides etc getting married in order to contact them and offer my services, they would also gove out my leaflets to all peeps that came to there shop or phoned for a mag etc. It sounds great and yes perhaps I could get a lot of business but its £487.62 inc vat per year. Ok maybe not a great deal of money I don't know but I have none :|.
Basically although i hate admiting it but I have been taking things very very slow since i decided to get back into this trade and side of things after taking a huge long break from beauty therapy so returned with the idea of staying upon the nail side of things to start with, work for myself and try to get a good rep, however I have not done a lot of advertising just word of mouth realy, this would be why my client base is so so small you could call it a hobby not a career, basically I can count my clients on one hand for pete sake ahhhhhhh.
So my problem is which way do i go what is best to do, I have no money, i am all maxed up still on my overdraft and credit card, my products are running seriously low, and my retail is crying out for a restock, yes even with my sneeze load of clients I do manage to sell things weird or what. Any how I don't know whether to just go out and sell myself a bit popping flyers about a bit more to save a bit of money or go for it all in a big way and try this wedding daze dont ask me how i could afford it I dont know but need some ideas to play with if you get my drift.
Olympia is fast aproaching and I was so hoping to get some new stuff there and try and re stock, but now the stupid car tax is due and the nasty council tax and I feel like I am going backwards down the stream dispite rowing faster and faster up it. I refuse to give in, I will be successful one day. I want to do a creative conversion course also but have to wait a little longer to do that well only 5 months now, still seems an age but hey ho.
Bleeting on also, i decided to create a nice portfolio of my nail art and nails, to perhaos take round some of the local shops perhaps wedding shops to see if they liked them and would pop a poster up in there window or recomend me however i spent the whole day using my poor friend as a model yesturday, snapping shots of her hands nails and re spraying after respraying buffing polishing etc to find out today after taking the film in that my camera is pants and all the photos are useless, yep i need a digital camera, but i havent got one and I dont even know anyone with one, it just gets better by the min hey. I have put photos on my website that are very poor quality and although i have tried hard i am rather ashamed of my lame effort, so am reluctant to let anyone see it.
In case you had not guessed I am on a real downer today and just need a little perking up with some any ideas, my husband cant think of anything, but then he is just a football freak not into nails, ahhhhhhh.
Ok im zipping my mouth now before I turn everyone suicidal, my spellings are terrible so I appologise for this.
Help help help.
Grace x