My wife has two businesses of her own that I have nothing to do with.  She sells Avon and has parties for Noah’s Ark where kids can create their own stuffed animals.  Recently, she and a friend have been planning on setting up an open house for the public showcasing several small work from home businesses.  Everyone would put up a small fee to help pay for the room at the convention center.  She’s been pretty excited about it.

My wife is a very social person; everyone wants to talk to her about everything.  Sometimes I think she has a sign on her forehead saying “talk to me.”  She’s been talking to people up to 180 miles away to setup booths at this open house and has quite a list.

Last night her friend, who has done this to her in the past, decided that she didn’t want to go through with the open house.  My wife was livid!  She’d put all this hard work into the open house, got commitments from vendors for booths, and had started working on the venue.

I suggested that she just go ahead and run the whole thing herself; she normally ends up doing most of the work anyway, so why not just to it herself.  That got her to thinking.

“You know all those millions that football quarterbacks make?  Who do you think pays for that?  The owners of the football teams and stadiums.  Those owners make so much money from the work of the teams that they can afford to pay those high salaries.  Don’t be the quarterback, be the person selling the tickets.”

My thought is for her to make this open house an annual or bi-annual event, every-time be willing to charge alittle bit for for a booth fee.  After the venue has been paid to host the event, use the rest for marketing to increase public attendance.  This will make more people want to get booths for next year, and more booth fees.  Just keep building and building the event. 

Don’t use the event to promote your own businesses, make promoting the event your business!

She likes the idea of it, but has doubts.  I think that if she doesn’t, I might have to jump in and take over, err, help out

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