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At the moment the sales in my business are 50% down compared to last year.
This is due to a number of reasons for example, no stock on better selling SKU's due to moving suppliers, some sku's being obsolete, more competitors joining the market.
I've been in business for 13 years and the pressure never really bothered me but lately i'm really starting to feel it. It got to a point where i wouldn't log into my internet banking because i didn't want to know how little cash i had in the bank, or i wouldn't look at our daily sales because i didn't want to see how shit we performed the day before.
I am working on a daily basis to address these issues and increasing sales (i'm currently waiting for stock to arrive in 4 FBA centres across Europe and US) but i know this isn't going to change overnight. I just feel this weight pushing down on my shoulders. I'm starting to feel like no matter what i seem to do or as hard i try it's not going to work out for me. I'm feeling very anxious especially at night time and i know that i'm just bottling everything up when really i feel like running a million miles away.
It's a horrible feeling that i am carrying around with me each and every day. It's like no matter what i am doing the worry is always there in the background that i'm losing my business and going to end up with a shit load of debt if i don't turn things around.
A while back i was always confident that i would end up achieving my goals no matter what, over the last few years that's evaporated and i need to get that faith in myself back somehow asap.
I have been there. Man your post brought back memories. I was literally afraid to check my bank account balance, so I just didn't.
See if you can get the vendors whom you know the best to extend you terms so you can load in some inventory.
Night is when it is the worst when the shit hits the fan. Get a copy of the audio of Tony Robbins Hour of Power, and listen to it every single night if you need to.
Remember that I was over 1,000,000 in debt at one point, with zero dollars coming in.
You can make it. You know how to do this. It doesn't fix overnight, but it can fix in 30 days.
Don't play the game of "what if..."
Spend those restless hours tuning and retuning and reworking and rewriting.
Live the life you have imagined. Be bigger than your immediate issue. Catch your breath. Be larger than life with the vendors.
Your FBA inventory will give you a boost.