The Beginning of Pants Business

Well, it is now 4am and I awoke. I slept at 12am just now and had been busy, nervous and excited for a whole day. I was tired, but my mind was racing. So now I am, awoke in the middle of the night, eager to write something down, hoping to calm my heart and soul, before getting some more sleep.

Let me tell you what happened, please be my audience. 

I had been a person without a job for a couple of weeks. I couldn't stay more than three months on the last job, which was being a kindergarten teacher. Well, I loved being with the kids, and now I missed them so much since I left them, but I just couldn't stand it if the policy and environment of the school doesn't suit me. So I left.

Now I have gotten a new job. It was not the kind of job that you go out in the morning and come back home in the evening and receive the salary at the end of the month. It is a whole new world of MLM. I didn't know what was it at the beginning, it was Mrs Jessica who asked me out. I was curious about what she was going to tell me, I thought since I have nothing better to do in my daily life, I couldn't lost a couple of hours listening to what she could say.

After I listened to Jessica, I felt that the business is good and doable, she shared with me the business plan, even it is hard to digest and understand, she explained it in details anyway. I think the product is good, which is the pants, that healed people's body. I like good products that bring convenience and benefits to people's lives, that shows the purpose of the company. After one and a half hour listening to Jessica and his son, Leonard, I joined the member and looking forward to sell some of the pants to people and earn my own incomes. 

The first few days until the first two weeks, there were already a lot of ups and downs. As I posted testimonial pictures and videos on my social media account, most of my friends already knew what I am doing, my cousins too. I got the news that my sister brought the pants before in Sabah, but she didn't wear the pants often, so she doesn't feel much difference and benefit from the pants. None of my cousins asked me about the pants. Some has even discouraged me as they said they had done this kind of business before. "You would lose friend in the end, as they are afraid that you will push the products to them", this is what one of my aunt told me, it gave me four days of nightmare. My mom even says that I was being cheated. One of my friend messaged that he doesn't want to meet me if I am going to do MLM, I was so shocked and sad to hear that. For some moments, I thought I made the wrong decision again, and thought about how useless I am. I shut down my social media and disappeared from the virtual world for a few days. 

Luckily, Leonard helped me to go through it. He said what I'm facing is normal, everyone else in this business must face the same thing, but that didn't mean it is not doable. Some people had succeeded, there are hard proves. There are nothing to be afraid of, I realised I just had to do my own part. 

So, I kept on posting on social media, day after day, even nobody has asked me anything.

Until two of my friends from college message me, one from Arab and one from India, they asked me how much was the pants. It was one of my friends I knew back in Help University, I was eighteen years old, it was four years ago. I asked him if I can meet him. He said he is in Abu Dhabi, and I remembered he is not Malaysian. So I decided to do a zoom meeting.

I didn't hold a zoom meeting before in my life. I'm freaking out.

There are so many things I didn't know, how should I close the case?

First I thought of the money transfer, is it possible to transfer money internationally? Mrs Jessica assured me that it would be fine, she had saw people doing that. So I believed her and left that problem alone. Then I thought how can I send the parcel to him in Abu Dhabi? I haven't done it before either. Mrs Jessica also guided me through. She showed me an app that I can use and the procedure that I can follow. I checked with the parcel service nearby my house and they are so expensive. The app with the same brand service shows cheaper, so I would probably go with it.

Then I started to worry about the presentation. How am I going to present it, in order to let him understand   and keep interested in the topic? I realised what I had learned about presentation all my life in school and university has now come to its destiny. 

As I am going to use Zoom platform, I know the booklet Mrs Jessica gave me to present to customer is just not going to do the job. So, I thought I would scan it all to pictures format and present it through shared screen. I went to the printing shop near my house where they offer the scanning service. Luckily my mother gave me pocket money that morning, I can use it. 

I got all the booklet scanned and emailed back to me. I started to get things organised in my MacBook. All the testimonial pictures, videos, success stories, information about the pants, the marketing plan must go separately to different folders in my laptop. After sorting all of it, I figured that I must do some kind of power point presentation. I knew one application that is very hot lately, WPS, I would try and use that. It is free!

As I am getting ready, the time flies by, it is almost the appointed meeting time.

----to be continued