This past semester I have been working in the Carnegie Alumni Center as a hostess for the events that they hold.\u00a0 This past Saturday, I was working from 6:00-8:30 pm for a\u00a0 bridal shower.\u00a0 I was actually pretty excited, because it is always fun to see the different kinds of decorations that brides have.\u00a0 That is beside the point though.\u00a0 The party was going to start at 7:00pm\u2026 and at this point in time it was about 6:35pm.\u00a0 A woman from the event (not the bride) came down to the desk and asked where Bon Appetite was.\u00a0 I didn’t recognize that they weren’t there, so I decided to give campus safety a call to figure out where the food service was.<\/p>\n
Campus Safety immediately went to the SAC, found the person and charge and relayed information back to me that didn’t make any sense.<\/p>\n
The BRIDE asked for them to put things in the Kitchen, but not SET UP ANYTHING.\u00a0\u00a0 The key issue in this was that the bride didn’t tell her friends this at all.\u00a0 So now, I am stuck trying to figure out how to sell them an idea of decorations, food set up, coffee, water etc. in order for this bridal shower to go as smooth as possible.\u00a0 WHAT.\u00a0 Thank God I had experience in event planning and knew a little bit about how to make something look presentable.<\/p>\n
It was extremely clear that all of her friends were a little concerned with why I didn’t know why Bon Appetite was setting up, but it was actually a miscommunication between them and the bride.\u00a0 The main point to this post that relates to sales is \u2026<\/p>\n
WORK WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.<\/strong><\/p>\n In more times than not, there will be a time when things go WRONG.\u00a0 At that point, pull yourself together, and make it work.\u00a0 For instance,\u00a0 there aren’t any knives to cut a pie\u2026 use the pie cutter.\u00a0 It was really sketchy, but I had to make it work in order for people to be able to eat it. \u00a0All together, it is extremely important to sell the solution to the problem at hand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Encounter a Problem: Sell the Idea This past semester I have been working in the Carnegie Alumni Center as a hostess for the events that they hold.\u00a0 This past Saturday, I was working from 6:00-8:30 pm for a\u00a0 bridal shower.\u00a0 I was actually pretty excited, because it is always fun to see the different kinds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}