{"id":174,"date":"2011-02-25T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2011-02-25T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:43:58","slug":"another-show-another-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Another show, another bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I didn’t do as well at the Crafter’s Clearance as I’d hoped — a lot of foot traffic, a lot of folks picking up business cards, but not a lot of sales.\u00a0 The sales I did<\/em> make tended to be very small ones.\u00a0 I made back my investment for the show and not much else.\u00a0 Kind of depressing to think about, once you get right down to it, because I was counting on this show to be a big one for me.\u00a0 I was told by one of the crafters near me that the Christmas show hosted at Henry Ford II was an even better show and he did sales like crazy at that show.<\/p>\n

I did get invited to\u00a0a few more shows and I’ll have to consider whether or not they’re worth the investment in time and money before I commit.\u00a0 This would make three of the four shows that I’ve done barely worth my time to go to them.\u00a0 Either I’ve been picking the wrong shows, or I need to change my tactics somehow.\u00a0 I’ve been told it’s not my product that’s the problem (which really is reassuring, believe me).\u00a0 So we’ll see what happens.\u00a0 It’s early in the year.\u00a0 Of course, early in the year means a cash crunch, as always!\u00a0 I have plenty of inventory on hand, though, and a decent supply of raw materials.\u00a0 After I’ve escaped thesis-induced hell, I’ll get back to my crafting.\u00a0 I’ll have time<\/em> to get back to my crafting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I didn’t do as well at the Crafter’s Clearance as I’d hoped — a lot of foot traffic, a lot of folks picking up business cards, but not a lot of sales.\u00a0 The sales I did make tended to be very small ones.\u00a0 I made back my investment for the show and not much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,57],"tags":[92,94],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-update","category-shows","tag-crafters-clearance","tag-henry-ford-ii-high-school-crafters-clearance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1N0LD-2O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}