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This morning you enter your office and find a mega order waiting for you. A new client wants 500 gift baskets made and delivered to a local conference center. How can you complete this order on time, satisfy and client, and ensure that you’re ready for the next big sale?
Many designers turn to high school juniors and seniors or college students for help. They are full of energy and eager to get the job done.
Contact a high school or college counselor. Tell him how many students are needed, time length for the project, and per hour salary for the task. Salaries, on average, range from $7 to $10 per hour, depending on duties.
Set up your workspace in a well ventilated area with lots of room for busy hands. Determine which duties can be completed by the students and which tasks are suited for you.
You’re delivering the gift baskets, so it may be best to rent a small truck since most cars and personal vans are incapable of handling the load. You’ll only need the truck for several hours, which will keep the cost to a minimum.
Be sure to collect a minimum 50 percent deposit to cover the cost for products, salaries, trash disposal, and truck rental.
Keep meticulous notes about the project, including what worked and what didn’t.
Also list the names of the best students, keeping the information in a file to contact them again through the school’s counselor, and get their home telephone numbers in case the next mega order arrives during the Christmas break or the following summer.
This plan is crucial to grow your business. Get ready - Christmas is coming, and so are the mega orders.
How to Find Holiday Help provides more insight to prepare you for the big event.
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Can you give some suggests of areas that I could rent to assemble mega orders. I work out of my home and large orders can be a problem. I have already checked out storage units but they don’t have electricity. My next step is to check with schools with empty rooms or maybe libraries. What do you suggest?
Community centers, women’s centers, rotary clubs, some YMCA/YMHAs, and libraries come to mind as places with rooms with locks that are available free or charge or for rent.
Good luck with your plans, Charlene.
Thanks, Shirley I’ll let you know what happens. By the way, are you ever going to be in the Seattle area? It would be an honor for you come here.
I have no plans for Seattle as of yet, but that can change at any time.
If I’m booked at an event through a referral, the person who referred me receives a percentage of my honorarium.
Keep this in mind, Charlene, if there’s an event where you recommend me to program organizers.
Best of luck to you, and I truly look forward to meeting you in the future.