And I’ll be grumpy if I want too…
Big massive crazy sale of the year is now over. Glen worked one sale for me and I worked the other. I’ve exceeded my yearly goal by about 2K, and am crawling towards another hastily set lofty goal. I doubt I’ll make another 3800 dollars between now and December 22nd though (my shop closes then). That’s OK.
Cause, pretty soon, Glen will be gone for the better part of 6 or 7 months and I won’t exactly be nice to be around for the first bit. Not very conductive to positive sales growth anyway. It blows that he won’t be here for Christmas, but we still get the chance to be with family, I feel terrible for him that he won’t be. I had previously booked tickets for the girls and I to go out west just after Christmas, but plans changed and I was able to pay to move the date up a few days. Well worth it for my own well being to ensure we’re surrounded by family while Glen is on the other side of the planet.
I’m back to feeling that same feeling towards the business. Last year I went through the same emo funk concerning the business and wanting something different. I enjoy running a business, but I see the amount of ass busting work I do, which at times can be very very fulfilling, then I look at what is in my business account, and how much I make personally, and I feel very overworked and underpaid.
I think I need to do something different.
The problem is that I want to make a high quality product. To make a high quality product for my customers, I need to also charge the appropriate pricing. People don’t want to pay that. So I back it down, and therefore make less. Then I look at what I’ve made through the year and have spent to make that money and cringe.
If I change my formulations, well, that changes my product and I don’t feel good about it. If I change my prices, well, that takes out a lot of my existing customers and kicks me into a bracket where I will see sales slow down considerably.
I’ve been doing some reading and have been talking to some successful business people. What it comes down to, is I have to find a way to produce a cheaper product, with little labor and to be able to take that product and sell it for a 300-400 percent markup.
I really don’t know where that leaves me.
Maybe I’m just burnt out right now. Stressed out with Glen leaving very soon and frustrated at my year end numbers.
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