I quit posting for a while. I was going through a depression and got into other things that were silly. I thought I’d sell as an independent rep for the following businesses: Mary Kay, Norwex and another thing that I’d forgotten. In selling Mary Kay and Norwex, I found it hard to drum up customers because of COVID-19 overcoming the world and the business world more than anyone.
I’m a naturally shy person. So selling was uncomfortable to me. I had been isolated in my life outside my home. I thought of cold emailing to different companies that I knew some people there. But my emails turned out frozen out by accusing me to spamming. In total, I made no money from these independent selling businesses. However, I still like their products but I didn’t want to buy in bulk to sell Mary Kay to my friends and former business workers who I knew.
I was more broke after selling out of these companies. I still believe in these products. I still use Mary Kay cosmetics. I love to pamper myself and do my best by looking decent. I have no social life, however. Eversince I left my last job, only my relatives were the focus of my work. I don’t think that I have a head for business.
I also went back to university to take an MFA in Creative Writing. I was confident to think I could write independently and publish fiction or poetry or essays. I graduated in 2019 with Distinction. I wrote several books and published them myself with the help of Ingram Spark and Amazon Kindle. I a lso sent copies of my book, What Jesus Said, to parishes in my neighborhood.
What I found out from going for my MFA is that it didn’t teach me how to sell my books. I think selling books is a big challenge for me. I hope that someday soon my books will find an audience.
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