I am still reading old posts, I just wondered how this show turned out. Was it worth it?
Well.............we got to visit old friends!!!!!!! The show-----------hummmm, can't say as it was a real success. Remember I mentioned not to look a gift horse in the mouth? 2 days into the show we were starting to realize why that 10x10 booth became available. We were across from a double corner booth who sold chocolate covered fruit and they 'hocked' it like carnival barkers. We think that whoever was given the booth originally cancelled when they saw who they were across from. In speaking to other vendors at the show they all told us that when they register for that show they stipulate they do not want to be anywhere near those vendors. So.......no it wasn't a great show for us unfortunately. Every time someone stopped at our booth the woman across the way enticed them over to their side with free samples. Who says no to free food? And we weren't the only ones that suffered that fate, everyone around us felt it too. It was really unfortunate but I learned a valuable lesson. Now when I register for these peoples shows I request NOT to be close to food vendors. The company who puts on these shows actually called me this year to talk about it and told me I'm not the only one who feels this way - oh gee what a surprise! They are actually considering putting all food vendors together in these shows, as well as limiting how far out into the aisles they can sell. These are huge shows which means they'd probably have 2 if not 3 rows of food vendors. If they were all in the same area it could become really interesting! If they put them in one area then we'd all have to worry less about sticky fingers too. Anyway, to answer the question, sales weren't as good as we'd hope they'd be but we came home with some $ in our jeans so what can one say.
