So with all our last minute advertising and bookings. Not to mention my being severally handicapped when it comes to technology upgrades, and even user friendly aps, can easily defeat me! Facebook's new advert upgrade and policy change almost had me in tears of frustration and my plan of quickly loading a promotion on our fanpage, turned into an hour's worth of work.
Pushing our planned shopping outing close enough to naptime for my 2year old, for her to fall fast asleep not even 3min into a 5min drive. Granted, she had been up twice the night before and had an early start that morning. Which meant that we took the scenic route home and tried to go again after she woke up. Just as well really, as I had rushed out the house, starving and without the shopping list!
Which brings me to the topics of great service and poor community support!
So my little bundle awoke and we fought about lunch and then changed her because we managed to mess the yoghurt everywhere! Oh and let's not forget the drama of putting our shoes back on. Imprinted is an image of my almost 2yr old standing at the DVD rack with one hand over her eyes, doing her I just don't, want to, can't cry. Not a real cry, no tears and hasn't worked on me for months. She has daddy wrapped around her finger! But then, don't most little girls have that, I did.
Eventually, we get off and head down to the mall. Our first stop Cell C, to query about my upgrade. Apparently when they phoned me in January of this year and I thought I'd gone onto a month to month, with the option of upgrade, when a better deal arrived was a lie! This now on top of my huge disappointment with our small local weekly paper, more later.
The owner of the Baywest Store turned into my super hero for the day! Actually he restored my faith, that there is such a thing as customer service! He phoned and was transfered from pillar to post and finally, while still remaining civil, got it sorted out. I should be able to go back and pick up my upgrade in 24hrs.
My crazy ball of energy was well behaved through the whole ordeal, that is unless you are one of those people who expect small children to sit still and be quiet. Then no, you wouldn't agree with me now. Good means, she didn't wonder off, she didn't climb onto the desks, she didn't break anything. She did run around the store, walk into the glass, giggle and do her baby jabber talk, oh yes and dance.
In previous blog posts I've mentioned how Jessica and I love our art form and how we work at creating a community of like minded ladies. In an attempt to raise our own money, we thought we'd do some fundraising so that we could pay our own way and meet our dance goals, without putting additional financial pressure on our families.
Committing to doing and succeeding in doing seems to have a rather large pool of frustrated tears that must be waded through. This isn't supposed to be the price of doing what you love! Which raises the question, so what are we doing wrong, how do we get our existing community to buy into our new venture?
Although, we had an awesome Trivia evening, we did not reach the projected fundraising amount.
Our main goal, for Fun Events, is to raise funds to further our studies. Which would then extend to our community, helping those ladies also grow.
Some serious thought and hard research is on the cards for the next few weeks!
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