Open For Business

  Last quarter, I started a pretend sports store for my Business Math. It's actually pretty easy to "manage" a business on paper, but when it comes to real life, it's difficult. 

     I actually have a business right now. It's called Crumbs and I sell crinkles, cookies, and bruffins (brownie muffins). At the start, I thought it would be really easy, but I was wrong. It's difficult to manage your expenses and get more customers. Right now, it's on hold because of school. I also don't have much customers yet, but some event is coming up soon where I and some other friends get to sell things. 

     On November 23-24, I will be in a bazaar along with my sewing classmates. We will be selling headbands, bags, and maybe even belts. We just estimated the price of each one because we were using scraps of fabric. The best thing about this is that we have bazaar sewing days. What do we do? All the sewing class students come together in the studio to make what we are selling! All of us are having fun now, but in the bazaar, we might come across some obstacles. 

     OBSTACLE #1: Getting customers 

     Since this would be our first bazaar, we still don't know how to attract the attention of the people passing by. Most of the people handling our booth would actually be kids and that would mean we don't really have experience selling products yet. 

     OBSTACLE #2: Managing the money

     We need to be careful with the money. We are kids and that could mean we could misplace some money or lose money. We have to check whether the customers are paying the exact amount or if we are losing some bills.

     OBSTACLE #3: Managing the booth

     Everyone should get their turn in promoting, giving out fliers, managing the money, and managing the booth. It's also important to keep the booth clean and neat, so that the looks of it won't discourage the customers away.

     Those are the obstacles I can think of, so far. I believe that these also apply to not only bazaar booths, but also to restaurants and shops. 

     I am very excited for the bazaar because I would actually experience selling products in real life. I reckon it would be super fun!

     By the way, not ALL of the money we earn will be shared equally among all the sewing students. We decided that a portion of it will be donated to the Bohol and Cebu earthquake victims and the rest would be a reward for our hard work.