...still Day 10 and almost ready to go to bed :)

ok, the idea of calling "local" businesses was not so good. We called at least thirty business owners, from Gift Stores to Clothing Stores and more. With "we" I mean my husband and my best friends daughter - Tina - who worked successfully in the sales business before. I asked them for help because I thought maybe I was doing something wrong.

When I asked Tina to make some calls for me she was very motivated and pretty much said that it was a piece of cake for her but after she was turned down several times she said "that really hurt" lol so I told her "See, what I'm going through". She said she never thought she was going to take it to heart but it really hurt her the way she received those answers. She said "I feel like calling her back and telling her a piece of my mind" lol I really had to laugh, it was funny the way she said it.

Back to contacting business owners: All I did was ask for permission to send an email with more info after I explained that I was working with My Power Mall which is a division of "Together We Can Change the World". I asked if they could use more customers and told them that we just launched a Business Partnership Program. That's all! Not one email address, nothing, nada, nix!

About half of the people did not even listen more than 5 seconds and all others either said straight up no or just hung up the phone. All my enthusiasm was gone for today.

Todays morning call helped me out a bit though, gave me more ideas to focus on different directions which I will do first thing in the morning. I have no other choice but contacting people by phone or email, it is still snowing!!!

I am sorry I had no positive experiences to share, I really am doing the best I can :( It makes me so mad that I don't seem to succeed with anything I do and I wish I had something positive to tell but hopefully tomorrow? :)

Day 10...am I ready? No! Do I have to do this? Yes!

First off, I wanted to say Thank You, Frank, for the nice comment you sent :) I hope you will read this since I have no way of replying to you! Yes, I remember you from the old days and I hope you will stay in touch...send me an email or something :)

Ok, I got up this morning determined that I will approach 10 people today just because I miserably failed yesterday and when I looked out the window I was shocked: EVERYTHING covered with snow and still snowing!!! Oh my God, what is going on???
I was really thinking for a minute not to take my son to school but I did not want him to miss a single day if not necessary. I knew I could not leave with my car having summer tires so I decided to call a Taxi.

Right before I grabbed the phone my upstairs neighbour walked past me taking her children to school. She offered me to also take my son, thank God, I thought.

There is no way I can leave the house today. Now, don't think I am making up excuses but if anyone knows Baumholder then they know it's nothing but hills. Baumholder is also called "The Rock" and that for good reasons. When riding along taking the kids to school there were cars stuck all over the place. We barely made it to school and on the way back we almost got stuck, too. Luckily she also offered me to pick my son back up!

I am really mad now and since I can't leave the house I decided to do following:
Today, after my husband gets home, we are going to call "local" businesses left and right asking them for permission to send them an email about something that might help their business.

I hope this will make a difference and I will keep you posted on this!