Now things are taking shape, we have settled in our new home and the hitting works perfectly fine, after the 4th call out of the boiler engineers, which happened to only work just before the engineers came in and packed up whilst they were a million miles away. This happened 3 times.
We organised our very first ever WuChi Open Day Champagne & Mingle Event. This idea for us is a fantastic opportunity to showcase our products, have people come round, test the products, try the products, take samples, and most of all, buy the products and at the same time mingle with a glass of champagne and some chocolates.
Bearing in the mind we only thought about organising the event 3 weeks before and made sure Arsenal wasn’t playing on the day, we were good to go. We wanted so many things done in a short space of time, which we were aware was not possible at the time but, we gave it our all. Shin feel down at the zebra crossing whilst carrying glass shelves to the glass cutters to cut to sooth the dimension of the chimney breast for our product display for the open day, thanks to the traffic warden who came to his rescue and was actually sympathetic (he must come round for a cup of tea).
Anyway only to get to glass cutters and told we had the wrong glass after loosing one to the fall, now what! Well not good news, we want the products displayed in the living room so, he set out back to return the shelves and get suitable ones how? By train, ouch! He made it though. And we had the products displayed as we wanted. See photo.
Loads of other things happened i.e.
Like the credit card machine not turning up when it was supposed to. We still managed to take credit card payments using the vouchers included in the pack. The credit card handheld machine was delivered today. Too late to turn back, sale or no sale we have to pay the monthly rental and processing fee, this is when you say, “I think I made that decision under pressure”, so help me God.
Finding out the last minute from the carrier bag company that they ran out of bags a week after I placed my order (fantastic customer service we would say) taking my order was a problem as I was begging for them to take it I actually called them 2 many times, the new staff couldn’t use the system very well and I waited 30mins plus only to be told that someone will get back to me. Anyway it didn’t work out, I moved my order else where.
And lots
The event wouldn’t have been a complete success without the help of everyone involved we were such a team and everyone helped to make it a successful event from friends who attended to new friend who turned up to those who mingled and met a mingler we are happy it was all success.
ONE BIG BLOW: Noticed today, THAT THE LABELS RUN? Wrote this quick email to our graphic designer who lives in Canada, Don’t ask me why Canada, yes we love British designers, but you need to hear the story, she’s good and creative but, yes Britain, yeah but, no but, at the time as newbie’s this is what we know, and still believe, recommend me otherwise but be ready for my portfolio of cases.
Hi Vanessa,
How are you today? Hope the next issue of the magazine is going well. I posted your cheque payment yesterday, expect it ASAP. I included an example complimentary slip for you to see.
Existing products labels: just realised
All our existing printed labels of all our products run. They are not waterproof, once water splashes on any of the product labels, it runs like water colour or becomes marked and run, we have them displayed in our bathroom and they really run. Bearing in mind that products are displayed in bathrooms, people take baths and showers and theirs bound to be splashes of water hear and there or possibly humidity, this is definitely not good news am heart broken and embarrassed as we have them sitting in peoples bathrooms.
Any suggestions/ idea on what to do to minimise damage and save us from this existing dilemma and shame
The champagne & Mingle event went well, quite a few people turned up, and everyone who came bought something or the other and left with a bag of WuChi products (samples, testers & Leaflets. Most of all they love WuChi products and had nice things to say. All in all it was a successful event not a bad start for our first event.
We will be holding the next event in February, in time for Valentine, planning will start early for this unlike this one which was planned 3 weeks or so before, in a mad rush.( Shin said not to add this bit as we are defiantly
We are proposing that our two sided business cards, both green & grey say Natural Skincare after WuChi by maks ltd on so that when we hand out our cards people automatically know what WuChi is all about( a Natural Skincare company).any suggestions?
We got a few days off and will be using this to sort out our brochure photos and the rest of our outstanding new product labels and write up. Our aim is for WuChi products to be stocked and sold through retail outlets (apart from our website and mail order catalogue) and we want to present our selves properly. We have approached and spoken to quite a handful and would need to follow it up with everything complete i.e., introduction letter which am working on, brochure thanks to us, not ready, price list, leaflets and a box full of samples.
I am currently reading this book, half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche....
