1. Release a reusable, vague coupon that says, “10% Off Food (No Alcohol)”

2. Originally, give 10% off entire meal.

3. Eventually, stop taking 10% off drinks, justify by pointing out that it mentions food.

4. Finish it off a few months later by no longer allowing 10% off all food, only on the coupon holder’s food. But note at the bottom that all military FAMILIES get 10% off with ID.

That’s it. Super easy to do. Also, you should make sure that, as a manager, your customers never get out of your restaurant without feeling like they’ve wasted your time and you wish they’d go away. Because eventually, they will go away. To a nice, chain restaurant that will always keep their promises.

I can’t find a word to describe how betrayed I feel. I wanted to spend a nice lunch with my boys to celebrate Mother’s Day because I can’t do it tomorrow and now I’m just in a bad mood. I wanted to do a few more things before coming home, but all I can think about is writing this blog post. I nearly didn’t leave a tip, until I reminded myself that the manager’s actions are not the employees fault. But I did lower the tip, by taking out what I would have saved with the coupon.

I hope this information will help you better appreciate your own customers/clients.

Yeah, I know there are people out there who do this. I know it is possible. Maybe that’s why it’s so scary! So I’m just thinking that if I need to sell $9,000 of Avon in a week that means I need just about 360 new customers this week. Oh yeah, that’s no problem.

This is not going to happen.

I’m not saying I’m not gonna try.

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Tonight we’re meeting our new district manager. I don’t know why I am so mad. I don’t know if it’s because I feel abandoned by the old district manager, ignored by the temporary one we had the past few months, or I’m scared the new one is going to be crappy. I met her once before and, actually, we’re going to be in a photo in the Campaign 11 What’s New together because of our work raising money for the Walk Against Domestic Violence last year. I’ve met her once and I don’t think the impression she got was too favorable. I hope she’s optimistic and not mad at the company for giving her a district that’s 2 hours away from her home.

Saturday we pick up Jay at the airport for his vacation. It’s scary, too, because I don’t know how things are going to be since he’s been gone for nearly 8 months. I don’t have any question about whether or not he still loves me, but I’m afraid that our personalities may clash. And maybe a little afraid that he may think it’s a real vacation where we’ll be spending money and eating out and buying things. Don’t really have that kind of money these days. I just hope he sees how overworked I am and does what he can to take the load off. And I really hope the TV isn’t on too much.

Oh well, guess next week I will either go crazy or get the relief I’ve needed..

Nothing frustrates me more than having everything I need up on my computer and the darn thing restarts itself while I’m asleep. I lost graphics in Photoshop and websites I was trying to save. I know I can go back into my history in Google Chrome so I am not crying over that, but I am upset about the loss of my work in Photoshop. I know what you’re thinking, “You need to save your work regularly.” And I know you’re thinking it because I tell people that all the time. But sometimes you’re just not ready to save it! Grr.

I’ve noticed that the colors on my WordPress theme have finally changed to pink. Isn’t that cool? Why it took my computer restarting will be a mystery to me always, but I’m glad to see that it has updated. I’m going to be working on adding more content to the site very soon. I’ve found a few pages that have given me some inspiration and I need to really put the ‘Lala’ spin on it, if you know what I mean.

Now I’m off to a career day with Shantelle, and I hope for her sake that it’s successful. Then dinner with a couple of other representatives on my team. Until next time..

The day was going pretty good and I was sitting here watching some Jenna Marbles (super funny) on YouTube (addicting), then decided to lay down for the next 15 minutes until the kids got home. Two minutes later the phone rings and I get a call from the school nurse. She has both of my kids and Michael was attacked at school and I need to come down there. I was told the SRO was trying to call me, but I don’t know what imaginary number they were trying to call because they didn’t call mine. I know full well they have my cell and I should have heard from someone by now, considering my son was ATTACKED AT SCHOOL. Needless to say, I plopped on my Avon Short Embroidered Boots and sailed out the door. Drove it like I stole it to the school, which is 2 miles away, hopped out and raced up to the door. At this point I heard ATTACK and SCRATCH and a whole bunch of other words that had me thinking about how these kids should be punished for hurting my Mikey.

I’m going to spare you any more details about my son’s encounter yesterday and move on. Three hours after I arrived at the school we leave and go home. I want nothing more than to call my husband and tell him what happened, but he’s on a mission and barely getting any sleep already so I can’t stress him out more with this. But at the same time, I’m holding all of this stress and it’s getting to me, bad. A couple of hours later I get a call from a friend who needs a ride home because her friend’s car isn’t working so I go to pick her up and it’s 55MPH, so naturally I’m driving anywhere between 55 & 60. I come up on a car, change lanes after the intersection to go around, and then change lanes back because I’m going to be turning right. I’m driving down the road and all of a sudden this car (the one I passed, to be exact) is running up behind me going like 70MPH and gets all the way on to my bumper. Instinctively I gas it to get away and change lanes and as they pass me, they flip me off. WTF? DO YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST WENT THROUGH!?? I’ve never wanted to get out of my car and beat someone senseless in the Walmart parking lot before, but now I’m beginning to understand why it happens.

So I got nothing done yesterday, despite being totally inspired to make a new site and I could hardly sleep because I wanted to work on it, but I knew I needed to go to bed. And I had to switch shifts at the OG with someone because I felt sick to my stomach at the idea of being away from my phone while my kids were at that school. Now I’m completely freaked out about even sending my kids to that school and I feel totally helpless at this point.

So yesterday I discovered a movie called “Amityville Haunting”, which takes place in the “Amityville Horror” house, but is a lot like Paranormal Activity. It was a cool move and I rated it as a like, but I would have liked it a lot more if Tyler had survived cuz I have a soft spot in my heart for tween boys right now (my boys are 11 & 12). Then, I discovered a show called “Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry?”, which is a lot like “Snapped!” but not quite. It sucked me in. I swear, I cannot be productive in the day after I’ve watched TV. The last story I saw reminded me of Jay, so I called him and told him about. We stayed on the phone for a while and I have to say, it’s nice to hear him happy again.

Today my list began with 9 tasks. Tasks ranging from house work, to E-Starr, to Avon. (Yes, I am going to take every opportunity to plug my businesses because I believe in them so much!) It’s nearly 6pm and I only have 4 tasks done, but that’s because I did the biggest, most time consuming thing on the entire list. I completed the home page for the new E-Starr design. I didn’t just finish the content or the placement, but I did the graphics, too. I must say, I am proud of myself. The graphics are nothing amazing, but I’m proud that I did them. I’m not sure why, but graphics really intimidate me. I think it’s because I’m such a perfectionist and I’m never happy with anything I do creatively. I also cleaned my bathroom, put out some Avon books, and put stickers on some of the 1,000 books I have laying around here for next campaign. Go me!

Now, over the next 2 hours, I have only to call leads, email my downline, call my customers, print out fliers, and move some files over from a disc to a flash drive. What do you think the chances are I will finish?

Getting an Avon shipment is a lot like Christmas, and it happens every two weeks! It’s so exciting to get it and open it up and go through it all. Most of the stuff isn’t for me, but I always get myself something and then there’s the demo book, which is for representatives only. In this shipment I have the new hair color coming and I’m really not sure if I’m going to use it. I’ve never colored my hair, nor had any interest in coloring my hair, but it is free. When it comes in, I will show you and you can let me know if you think I should use it or not.

Of course, Avon is not the only thing I need to accomplish today. I also need to make some progress on E-Starr‘s new design and work on my house a little bit. I really, really want to get Jay’s Valentine’s Day present sent out to him so he can get it before he comes home to visit. I had it in time, I’m just terrible at shipping stuff. And then I thought I would wait until he got back, but then I don’t think he would enjoy the stuff as much while he’s home. So that must go out today! & apparently someone has to walk the dogs because that didn’t happen before the boys left for school.

So, off to a pretty good start! Just need to keep things rolling and not go to sleep. Oh! It’s March 1! Gotta go tear February off the calendar!

Today I had my entire morning planned out, thinking that if I had stuff to do I would do it, rather than fall back asleep. That didn’t work out. So now I am trying to fit the entire list into what time I have left, which at this point is about an hour and 15 minutes. It’s clearly not going to happen, so sacrifices will have to be made. It’s time to decide what can wait until tomorrow. Unfortunately, most of the things on my list really can’t wait until tomorrow because they came from yesterday’s list and originated from days/weeks ago. *sigh*

Fortunately, blogging is on the list and that is getting done right now. I had planned to blog yesterday about how this WordPress theme was giving me such a headache, but the words were not coming. And apparently Hulu/GetGlue were much more interesting. Currently, I have 6 (this post makes 7 as soon as it’s done) down of a total of 14 and I am going to try my best to do them all! But let’s be realistic..

Michael just ran in with some clothes for me to put on, because I told him I had stuff to do. Either he wants me to get out of his way, or I have a helper today!

I was thinking about how in the past my blogs were really popular. I had those Palace Dolls and people commented all of the time. They stole my designs, copied me, used the content that I offered. I remember at one point someone had told me my blog was interesting and I wasn’t really sure how that was possible because I was just being myself and people in the real world didn’t find me interesting. They didn’t want to be friends with me, give me a job, look in my general direction.. At one point I even competed in and won Internet Idol, which wasn’t anything official, but it was a popular vote that I had won! So what is going on now?

I think that my interesting thoughts can usually be summed up in 2-3 sentences, hence I would rather pull up Facebook and share it, than take the time to manage a blog. And in so doing, the blog dies and Facebook reigns supreme! And if I’m going to blame Facebook, I should also blame Mike for inviting me to it. And those crazy games! Ugh. But today I think I am more clear-headed than I have been in a long time and a solution is right over that edge, as soon as I tip toe over to it there should be major changes in all that is Amy.

Stay tuned..