l'atelier des bijoux » events http://www.adbshop.com/blog the jewelry workshop of rebecca fogle Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 First show http://www.adbshop.com/blog/2009/02/09/first-show/ http://www.adbshop.com/blog/2009/02/09/first-show/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:11:50 +0000 admin http://www.adbshop.com/blog/archives/12 My first vendor opportunity was this past Saturday and, while the show was a bust, I learned quite a bit. One, never split a table with other jewelry sellers. The company was welcome, but the competition wasn’t. Two, take plenty of low-cost, impulse-buy-level items. Those items tend to sell out of my shop faster, and I didn’t have enough time to make more of them. Three, place said low-cost items towards the front of the table. The goal is to draw people in. Four, bring a project! One of the girls I was splitting with brought her tools and supplies, and I really wish I had had something to do during the lull (read: the entire show). Five, don’t sell relatively expensive items at something marketed as a “flea market.” Even if 2/3 of the vendors are handmade sellers, it doesn’t really draw a crowd looking to drop $50 on a necklace. I got a lot of browsers, and a lot of “oh, that’s so pretty!” comments, but very few buyers.

All that said, I am totally not disappointed with the experience — it was a good learning opportunity.

I forgot to take a picture of the table (oops!), so this will have to be a text-only post.

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