had a stellar turnout, 5000 paid (adult) through the gate (under 18 got in free) for my first day at my first event.
thanks to SL, i had a great setup, a constant stream of people queued up at both tasting stations and sold 19 boxes of product in 7 hours. the keychains, not so much. only 6 sold, on a $3 or 2/$5. not sweating it though, as the sauce was the showcase, not the merch.
with SL's suggestions, i had a case of 'Thank You' teeshirt bags under the front table, and left room on the front of the table for people to set bags down.
i had a nice '16 gauge clear vinyl roll for the table top, for easy cleanup and spills (6 people dropped sauce)
had over 250 at the booth, with me and a friends daughter helping me.
each person was invited over to try, offered the choice of spoon or chip (i had those small debutant spoons, and tostitos scoops). chips were kept rolled up and samples were poured by staff only. only used 1.5 bottles of each. nearly 3/4 of all visitor who tried bought a bottle.
cinder and stoke sold nearly 1:1 with stoke selling 10 bottles more.
7 hour day went by in a snap. with 1 hour to go, sales dropped off the cliff and had 1 sale in the last 60 minutes.
at the show there were 170 vendors. no one else had a booth like mine. a few tents blew over from wind guats but my weight plates i got with the MightyTent were perfect. zero issues. i used TentCraft.com to manufacture it.
tent is a 10x10 mightytent with a 10x10 screened rear, black side skirts with bars, and a custom valence.
table is a powerstretch fully printed cover with zipper in the rear on an 8' table.
the displays were built by me from crates and bare wood, like the sample trivots.
the keychain was from ColdStone Creamery when it went out of business. bought 3 of them for just $5 each, used chalkboard as a dropin back and $30 worth of towel hooks (black) holding 3 of each keychain color.
i still need a solution for lighting for the fall.
and an anti-fatigue mat for the front table instead of standing on the hard packed ground
edit: had more people at the booth but just over 250 actually samples. very few refused, but every ome that stopped asked questions or was invited over by us. no one was ignored
one woman acused me of having bad info on the nutrition panel claiming hot sauce has carbs. i explained that cinder and stoke had 0 carbs but she was adamant. in the end i encouraged her to actually try them and she bought a bottle of stoke haha
thanks to SL, i had a great setup, a constant stream of people queued up at both tasting stations and sold 19 boxes of product in 7 hours. the keychains, not so much. only 6 sold, on a $3 or 2/$5. not sweating it though, as the sauce was the showcase, not the merch.
with SL's suggestions, i had a case of 'Thank You' teeshirt bags under the front table, and left room on the front of the table for people to set bags down.
i had a nice '16 gauge clear vinyl roll for the table top, for easy cleanup and spills (6 people dropped sauce)
had over 250 at the booth, with me and a friends daughter helping me.
each person was invited over to try, offered the choice of spoon or chip (i had those small debutant spoons, and tostitos scoops). chips were kept rolled up and samples were poured by staff only. only used 1.5 bottles of each. nearly 3/4 of all visitor who tried bought a bottle.
cinder and stoke sold nearly 1:1 with stoke selling 10 bottles more.
7 hour day went by in a snap. with 1 hour to go, sales dropped off the cliff and had 1 sale in the last 60 minutes.
at the show there were 170 vendors. no one else had a booth like mine. a few tents blew over from wind guats but my weight plates i got with the MightyTent were perfect. zero issues. i used TentCraft.com to manufacture it.
tent is a 10x10 mightytent with a 10x10 screened rear, black side skirts with bars, and a custom valence.
table is a powerstretch fully printed cover with zipper in the rear on an 8' table.
the displays were built by me from crates and bare wood, like the sample trivots.
the keychain was from ColdStone Creamery when it went out of business. bought 3 of them for just $5 each, used chalkboard as a dropin back and $30 worth of towel hooks (black) holding 3 of each keychain color.
i still need a solution for lighting for the fall.
and an anti-fatigue mat for the front table instead of standing on the hard packed ground
edit: had more people at the booth but just over 250 actually samples. very few refused, but every ome that stopped asked questions or was invited over by us. no one was ignored
one woman acused me of having bad info on the nutrition panel claiming hot sauce has carbs. i explained that cinder and stoke had 0 carbs but she was adamant. in the end i encouraged her to actually try them and she bought a bottle of stoke haha
was able to sell today but it was ripped out by a giant gust of wind and bent up. every corner ripped and truss bent. 
