Its glow friday bitches!! Black Friday 2020 Story Time😅

It wouldn’t be a Bauer Beauty Black Friday if shit wasn’t running out of stock!

Even though I have enough stock in theory….

my warehouse can’t keep up with my orders right now 

coupled with some technical glitches.

Jenny last year would be having a panic attack

but Jenny this year is chill as fuck!

I’m pretty impressed with myself actually lol.

If you watched my YouTube video from yesterday, if you didn’t you should,

I was talking about Black Friday 2020.

The biggest disaster of my business so far

where I ran out of stock the day before Black Friday started 

It was fucking insane

I was so angry because it was 100% my fault🥴. 

Partially because my sales increased so much last year at this time
 
it was kind of hard to predict far enough in advance to plan for as much inventory as I needed,
 
and partially I was playing it safe.
 
I was afraid to take bigger financial risks
 
(aka buy a shit load of inventory).
 
But then last, and most horribly,
 
it was really just due to my own absentmindedness, procrastination and ignorance.
 
I didn’t realize how long it took for shipments around this time of year
 
Processing time is longer, carriers take longer, 
 
Plus other 2020 unique situations
 
So I remember it clearly...
 
it was a Friday. 11/20/20
 
exactly one week before black Friday.
 
And it dawned on me
 
my peptide serum was flying off the shelves
 
and my new order was barely completed.
 
I don’t know how I just suddenly woke up and realized this one week before!
 
So I begged my lab to get at least a few hundred units out on that Saturday,
 
I overnighted them using UPS which was $600,
 
and then UPS fucked up and the units didn’t even get there until Wednesday,
 
the day before thanksgiving😖.
 
once they arrive to Amazons warehouse it takes several days to process them.
 
It took them 2 weeks to process the peptide serum and get it back up and running.
 
So MOTHER FUCK THAT BS.
 
I’m still so angry thinking about it!
 
But it really was a life-changing point in my business where nothing else phased me after that.
 
Running out of inventory on Amazon is especially catastrophic because they punish you for going out of stock.
 
So they won’t show your listing as much or whatever.
 
And since my business was so new and it was doing so well
 
I just didn’t know what to expect and every little move highly aggravated me.
 
But I started doing business a different way this year,
 
my new concept is “let it be easy “.
 
When it’s easier you can get your work out in the world way quicker, funner, and more effortlessly.
 
Because I believe part of the reason why UPS fucked up,
 
and everything took especially long,
 
and all things went wrong last black Friday
 
was because of my energy.
 
My energy was so frantic
 
I was so neurotic and obsessed and fatalistic
 
that of course these things happened.
 
Have you ever experienced that?? do you know what I’m talking about?
 
The more you worry or obsess about some thing
 
the more pressure you put on it
 
and the more you push it away. 
 
So anyway as moral of the story....
 
here we are Black Friday 2021
 
shit is still running out of stock 
 
but I’m getting creative and finding loopholes
 
creativity works better when you're in a chill/inspired vibe
 
I want to make sure you guys get to purchase what you want.
 
Because so far my shit never goes on sale except for this time of year.
 
I hope you had a beautiful Thanksgiving if you celebrate
XO
 

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