@marabouessentials: THIS IS HOW I FAILED 🥺😰 I’m a few years deep into this creative entrepreneurship thing, but I still managed to experience THIS 👇🏼 so damn strong! Around October/ November of 2023 I was preparing to create a Special on personalized journals that come with personalized pens in a way that would be super cost effective for my customers.  Here’s a glimpse of what I did: 👉🏼 Checked with my supplier for unique journals I could customize  👉🏼 Check for gorgeous pens I could customize 👉🏼 Got packaging sorted 👉🏼 Got my customizing machine sorted 👉🏼 Created samples  👉🏼 Created lots of content & a photoshoot 👉🏼 Prepared some copy for advertising, etc Everything went so well, and everything SOLD OUT within a few hours after I advertised on social media 🤯  I started packing and sending orders immediately, and started putting customers who were still interested on a waiting list. THEN CAME THE SHOCK OF MY LIFE! While still packing orders and sending orders, a customer contacted me and said both the journals they'd ordered and received came apart😨😱 I thought, could it have been something that happened in transit? Did it happen here and I didn't see it?  I was so worried, and so embarrassed! I started checking the other journals and guess what- many of them started falling apart too😵‍💫😵 I now had to start refunding all the customers that had already paid and I had to explain to the rest why they were not going to get their orders🫠 I felt so bad since the products all looked so beautiful from the outside🥲🥲🥲 So I just basically lost all the income that would have come in because of that whole situation🤷🏾‍♀️ Anyway, here's a little thing for you to remember: in entrepreneurship, there’ll ALWAYS be new hurdles to navigate and what we can control is our responses to them. Yes I was extremely disappointed and so so sad. But I decided to be upfront about what was happening and almost everyone understood. I guess there's always a solution, even if sometimes the solution doesn't directly favour you🤷🏾‍♀️ I failed, but I'm still on top of things and on to the next one! Share this with whoever needs to hear this!

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Saturday 27 January 2024 05:53:42 GMT