Just a little business advice needed, to me this doesn't seem like a profitable idea but maybe I'm missing the bigger picture?
I'm running a few free special FX courses in my shop for Halloween (obviously not a professional one), of course the idea is that people will buy our products afterwards. We have had great interest in it.
But this morning someone (possibly the Head) of a college 30miles away, contacted asking if we could give a free one at the college. That they have 4000 students, great advertising etc. I said i would get back to her.
the only thing is I can't honestly see any of them travelling that far to get our products afterwards, they'll go on ebay or get it from the costume shop in their town. Also I could never stand & talk in front if a large group, I would die. So I'd have to get one of my other MUAs to do it & have extra people in the shop covering us if we were away, so I'd be paying wages etc
I don't like saying no & I offered to do it if they came up here. Is it worth my while? Maybe I'm missing something? I think I'm wary because I've done a lot of stuff for free, while still paying staff wages, and not seeing a great result out of it!
I'm running a few free special FX courses in my shop for Halloween (obviously not a professional one), of course the idea is that people will buy our products afterwards. We have had great interest in it.
But this morning someone (possibly the Head) of a college 30miles away, contacted asking if we could give a free one at the college. That they have 4000 students, great advertising etc. I said i would get back to her.
the only thing is I can't honestly see any of them travelling that far to get our products afterwards, they'll go on ebay or get it from the costume shop in their town. Also I could never stand & talk in front if a large group, I would die. So I'd have to get one of my other MUAs to do it & have extra people in the shop covering us if we were away, so I'd be paying wages etc
I don't like saying no & I offered to do it if they came up here. Is it worth my while? Maybe I'm missing something? I think I'm wary because I've done a lot of stuff for free, while still paying staff wages, and not seeing a great result out of it!