
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 nowÂ
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 startedÂ
It was fucking insane
I was so angry because it was 100% my fault🥴.Â
Partially because my sales increased so much last year at this time
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it was kind of hard to predict far enough in advance to plan for as much inventory as I needed,
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and partially I was playing it safe.
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I was afraid to take bigger financial risks
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(aka buy a shit load of inventory).
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But then last, and most horribly,
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it was really just due to my own absentmindedness, procrastination and ignorance.
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I didn’t realize how long it took for shipments around this time of year
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Processing time is longer, carriers take longer,Â
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Plus other 2020 unique situations
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So I remember it clearly...
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it was a Friday. 11/20/20
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exactly one week before black Friday.
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And it dawned on me
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my peptide serum was flying off the shelves
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and my new order was barely completed.
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I don’t know how I just suddenly woke up and realized this one week before!
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So I begged my lab to get at least a few hundred units out on that Saturday,
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I overnighted them using UPS which was $600,
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and then UPS fucked up and the units didn’t even get there until Wednesday,
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the day before thanksgiving😖.
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once they arrive to Amazons warehouse it takes several days to process them.
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It took them 2 weeks to process the peptide serum and get it back up and running.
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So MOTHER FUCK THAT BS.
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I’m still so angry thinking about it!
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But it really was a life-changing point in my business where nothing else phased me after that.
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Running out of inventory on Amazon is especially catastrophic because they punish you for going out of stock.
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So they won’t show your listing as much or whatever.
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And since my business was so new and it was doing so well
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I just didn’t know what to expect and every little move highly aggravated me.
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But I started doing business a different way this year,
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my new concept is “let it be easy “.
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When it’s easier you can get your work out in the world way quicker, funner, and more effortlessly.
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Because I believe part of the reason why UPS fucked up,
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and everything took especially long,
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and all things went wrong last black Friday
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was because of my energy.
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My energy was so frantic
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I was so neurotic and obsessed and fatalistic
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that of course these things happened.
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Have you ever experienced that?? do you know what I’m talking about?
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The more you worry or obsess about some thing
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the more pressure you put on it
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and the more you push it away.Â
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So anyway as moral of the story....
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here we are Black Friday 2021
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shit is still running out of stockÂ
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but I’m getting creative and finding loopholes
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creativity works better when you're in a chill/inspired vibe
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I want to make sure you guys get to purchase what you want.
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Because so far my shit never goes on sale except for this time of year.
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I hope you had a beautiful Thanksgiving if you celebrate
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