How We Began Our Craft Show Career
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Me and my wife got into craft shows out of pure chance. And mostly, I was just the person who tagged along so to speak. One couple was truly impressed with my wife's crafts one day, so they decided to let us share their booth in a craft fair in California. All we did was split the booth fee (worth $35), and we ended up making somewhere around $250 dollars. We patted ourselves in the back, and I thought that this would be a great way to occasionally supplement my income.
With that naive attitude, we tried our luck once more at a weekend show in Arnold, California. By then I've already taken an interest in my wife's crafts and have decided to try it myself; we set up the same old booth design, covered it with the exact same tablecloth as we did the last time, and just like that, we were in business.
I didn't know why luck favored us at the time, but we had sold out all of our items by the end of the weekend. Our total gross weighed in at around $500. What an easy way to earn income! As this was our second success in a row, we thought that we'd struck gold. After all, earning $500 every weekend sounds like a surefire way to success, doesn't it?
We got more serious, and we had a booth for almost every weekend in our first few years in the crafts business. As long as there was a small craft show in a nearby town, a small club, or a church event, we made arrangements to make sure that we were there. It wasn't long until we attended an event that earned us $1000 for the first time. We believed that we were really making big money, then.
Head held high with confidence, we stepped up to the big time craft shows. We had to add more crafts to our product line, and we learned to improve on our skill sets. And since we had to lug more stuff about, we bought a bigger vehicle that consumed more gas. Playing with the big boys made us realize that there were still a lot of things that we needed to learn.
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