Failed Attempts

Today, let me tell you a story of how we made a new planner, invested a lot of money in it and then, guess what?? 

You guessed it, it FAILED. Our business started and ended in 2 seconds. Record time? Can we get published in THE book for this? Coz, I mean, we gotta get something out of this.

Let’s give you some more details, and as usual you can laugh while I sulk and rant.

For starters, for those of you who don’t know, we put up a stall recently in another college and also in our college. We made some customised stickers and a planner specifically for the stall in another college. Okayy,  that’s all the information you need to understand this rant, so let’s get into it.

Let me start with a cute incident (a lil context- we were not making any sale) where my friend went like “tum kyu ni khareed re ho. Look at the pretty blue colour ke bulbule. Itne sundar sundar hai”. That’s where we started to lose it. There were times we were on the floor laughing, because all we could do was make jokes out of our misery, we were laughing outside, crying inside :)

One of our friends were also in the same college for another stall, they came over to our stall and started shouting “20 ke 2, 20 ke 2, 20 ke 2.” out of the blue. Did anyone listen, tho? NOPE. There was also a time where one of us was ranting and some people came over behind her, and she just kept on ranting- “koi to khareed lo, kya karre ho tum log”. And yet again, we were laughing on the floor as the people behind her were like okay, this stall is not the place to be.

Another incident that occured was there were a few teachers who came up to our stall, and were checking out our booklet and planner. They even asked us to explain each of them. We did and had some hope that they’ll buy the planner atleast. But this person just went like- “nice work, very nice work. Don’t worry I'll be back in a while”. We waited and waited and guys we are still waiting…………. He never came back, just like our happiness (haha, cries inside)

Let me tell you about some other students who visited our stall. We also had a game as part of our stall, which was free of cost (while the other stalls were charging for the games). Now, they wanna play a game for free AND get rewards also. Like sure people, why not just rob us at this point. Go play paid games then, and get your rewards there. Your reward IS THE FREE ENTERTAINMENT. Leave us alone please. And more like these, a whole lot of people came over and looked at our stickers, and went like these are really cute, these are so relatable. “This is soo mee” . but, when it came to buying them? NONE of them did, like hello when it IS so relatable, why don’t you buy one. You’ve all heard of “hit and run” right? Well, this is a case of “LOOK AND RUN”. should be punishable, I believe ;)

One last incident- although there are tons more. I’ll stop after this, I swear!

So, another person came up to our stall, looked at our planner. And started saying “i have bought and used a lot of planners and …..” now, what would you guess, they would say? This is a very unique one, great one, best one, different one?? NOOO, they said none of the above. I swear they had us in the first half.

Instead, they stopped after this….. Then later, said, “I have never seen so many aspects combined together in one planner. It’s a really good planner and is very easy to carry.” 

Now, this person played too much, because right after they said THIS, they simply walked away . I mean like, hellooo, BUY THE DAMN PLANNER.

On that note, I'll end this blog here, this one turned out to be pretty longer than usual. Hope you all didn’t get bored though. Keep laughing on our misery and enjoy our rants!!

I would like to end this one with- “All we did was, khaya, piya, roya and wapas aagye WITH a sunburn and fatigue.”

Okay, see you in the next rant!!

~ Co- Founder (Wakeful Mind)