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Aug. 2nd, 2017 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravena_kadeThe show I help run is dead as we know it. Our biggest/only ceramic supply distributor is not taking his usual 3 tables because he has cancer. Understandable. None of his children want the business even though it employs them. Sad...but understandable.
As a result the brush vendor will not take his 3 tables. This is especially irksome since we moved the show a month earlier just to accommodate him. He feels it will be awkward to sell brushes when the other supply guy is not there...not sure I get that, but what ever.
This means we will only have bisque tables. Bisque is unpainted ceramics ready for painting. That and we are short $3000. Since we have already paid the hall we are going to do the show, but cut it back to a one day show. Te show chair wanted to do it Friday but I objected because you are basically telling anyone who as a job that they can't come. People said that people would take a vacation day... ummm...would you try and take a vacation day for a yard sale? This would not allow us to show ceramics to kids (who are in school), and people with regular jobs. A few of the vendors agreed with me so it is a Saturday show.
I have decided to take a table and try and sell my bisque. I figure that maybe I can make some connections. That and the league members with shops who don't take tables can man the door and sell tickets. I just hope I can make the cost of the table.
The big thing is that now we can't really call it a trade show... so how can we advertise to get people who make bisque to take a 1 day table...and to advertise to people looking for a new craft? I wonder if we could sent out a flyer to the elderly housing places as a new craft for their people. Maybe try and find local boy and girl scout groups to see if they would like to do this as a craft? Not sure.
As a result the brush vendor will not take his 3 tables. This is especially irksome since we moved the show a month earlier just to accommodate him. He feels it will be awkward to sell brushes when the other supply guy is not there...not sure I get that, but what ever.
This means we will only have bisque tables. Bisque is unpainted ceramics ready for painting. That and we are short $3000. Since we have already paid the hall we are going to do the show, but cut it back to a one day show. Te show chair wanted to do it Friday but I objected because you are basically telling anyone who as a job that they can't come. People said that people would take a vacation day... ummm...would you try and take a vacation day for a yard sale? This would not allow us to show ceramics to kids (who are in school), and people with regular jobs. A few of the vendors agreed with me so it is a Saturday show.
I have decided to take a table and try and sell my bisque. I figure that maybe I can make some connections. That and the league members with shops who don't take tables can man the door and sell tickets. I just hope I can make the cost of the table.
The big thing is that now we can't really call it a trade show... so how can we advertise to get people who make bisque to take a 1 day table...and to advertise to people looking for a new craft? I wonder if we could sent out a flyer to the elderly housing places as a new craft for their people. Maybe try and find local boy and girl scout groups to see if they would like to do this as a craft? Not sure.
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Date: 2017-08-03 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-03 11:40 am (UTC)What irks me is that the 6 people in the league are like "oh people will still come Friday"...yes, but MORE people cannot come.
It needs new blood or perish... and the younger people buying up the supplies from closing shops don't understand that to make money with the stuff you have to be seen and get out there to sell.
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Date: 2017-08-03 12:54 pm (UTC)