Lately I have the urge to give up on some things, some of you may know I own a preorder and instocks apparels shop with 2 of my other friends. Business have not been as good as we have initially. We used to have 30-40 customers per month but now we only have less than 10 customers per month as the days passes by.
Why the drop in customers? I’m guessing one of the reasons is because I used to madly insanely follow 30k followings on Carousell and 4k followings on Instagram. After that I again madly and insanely unfollow till 23.3k followings on Carousell and 40 followings on Instagram. Adding up the number I have solely handpressed the phone 50k times?? The reason for following so many people is of course to gain awareness during the initial period where we first started around August last year. Another reason is both of my friends are really busy so we hardly have the chance to meet up and discuss on Augirls. Most probably the lack of teamwork in us is the cause too. And now we are already adults, graduated from poly, we all know that this business will not be enough to spoonfeed us unless your blogshop is like The Closet Lovers which is one of the most successful blogshop in Singapore. Knowing that reality, they have moved on to focusing on university and such. I don’t blame them, I blame myself for not being able to give them the revenue because we are selling at a very low price, thus earning very low profits that is hardly enough to split between the 3 of us. We have moved on to using that small little sum to invest in instocks but that’s the main problem now as we are unable to sell it off due to poor sales. I have always been having a positive spirit in me that someday (I don’t know if this day will even ever come) our online shop will be successful up till now. I have even imagined opening a physical shop once we reach 30k followers on Carousell and 10k followers on Instagram. I think I must have been living in a dream because that is not even possible. So where have my spirit gone? My parents want me to find a realistic job outside. They keep saying how this business won’t work out anyway, hence I’m really feeling low lately. It’s like they are knocking me off and pulling me away from this beautiful dream that is my dream. Owning a shop, be it online or whatsoever is what I always wanted to do. And I know it's the only thing that I enjoys doing, my interest, my everything. And so I have been spending my time looking for a job, so far only one of them replied and ask me to go down for an interview. It's a job at a Korean cafe. I willing to try it out as Korea and desserts are some of my favourite things. Not sure if I will pass the interview or not anyway so let's not have high hopes. Am I still continuing my shop(s)? The answer is yes. This is what I love doing and even though I'm not earning much and I feel like giving up everything at times. I remember this Tumblr quote I came across in the past. That is, "Everytime you feel like giving up, think of the reason you held on to it so much in the first place". I will use that quote to keep me going. I don't know how long this motivation will lasts but for now, I will keep going and going. |
AuthorDreams to open a shop selling apparels and tumblr phone cases. I like to explore, go cafe or bar hopping, watch movies, take photos or sleep when I'm not working. Archives
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