Calendar Girl Blog: Fear of Rejection
I'm procrastinating again.
Usually, around this time of year, I start emailing my loyal customers to ask them, in a pretty please kinda way, to place their orders for the 2006 edition. Yah see, I have this honking printers bill that needs to be paid within 30 days of getting the finished calendars in hand. To cover it, I need to sell over 500 copies at full retail.
So you'd wonder why I'm not on this full time right now instead of whining to you.
Once I get started soliciting orders, I find the work exciting. But until I press send on the first few hundred emails, I get a full blown case of 'fear of rejection.' What if no one wants a copy this year?
No doubt, I'm still feeling the burn I took in the first year when I printed 20,000 copies and lost $50,000.00 of my own money.
Yah, you read that right. Ouch.
Any way...no sense living in the past. And no one is forcing me to publish. So, I'll just get on with it shall I? After I dust my office.
Calendar Girl
Breast of Canada 2006
Usually, around this time of year, I start emailing my loyal customers to ask them, in a pretty please kinda way, to place their orders for the 2006 edition. Yah see, I have this honking printers bill that needs to be paid within 30 days of getting the finished calendars in hand. To cover it, I need to sell over 500 copies at full retail.
So you'd wonder why I'm not on this full time right now instead of whining to you.
Once I get started soliciting orders, I find the work exciting. But until I press send on the first few hundred emails, I get a full blown case of 'fear of rejection.' What if no one wants a copy this year?
No doubt, I'm still feeling the burn I took in the first year when I printed 20,000 copies and lost $50,000.00 of my own money.
Yah, you read that right. Ouch.
Any way...no sense living in the past. And no one is forcing me to publish. So, I'll just get on with it shall I? After I dust my office.
Calendar Girl
Breast of Canada 2006
posted by Sue Richards at 4:02 PM
2 Comments:
I am amaze that while I am still trying to remember that 2004 is over and 2005 is here, some people try to sell 2006 calendars :)
I found Breast of Canada through Womennet.ca and to tell the truth, I never heard of it until now. I think it's a wonderful cause, a wonderful idea, but I also think it should get out there more. Get more publicity, etc. I will surely be talking about it to my friends.
Hope you will sell all your calendar!
G.
Not to be defensive or anything, but 'get more publicity' is an on-going activity. Check out what I've managed to generate so far.
http://www.breastofcanada.com/media.html
Calendar Girl
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