The festival was a huge success for us. The first day we sold out early, so the other Franchise a few cities over made us some extra product and dropped it off the next day. Despite the increase in inventory, we still sold out two hours early the second day. People loved it. We were the only booth selling our product that had a line!
We learned a lot - even if you clear the extra food products that you intend to sell with the county health department, if you forget to tell the festival organizer you will not be allowed to sell them.
Standing for two days straight is hard.
Your family will get very grumpy with each other when working on no sleep.
This is a tough gig - despite selling out, despite the lines, we barely broke even. Also, I didn't keep up with all the cash I personally spent in research in supplies for the products that the festival organizer told us we couldn't sell (which was a shame because people were buying them before we were told to put them away).
However, its very hard to place a value on the marketing and name recognition we got from having approximately 80,000 walk in front of our booth, and getting to tell a great many of them we were coming soon.
Okay . . . I'm off to put my very tired body in a hot shower and then head off to be a lawyer.
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I'm glad to hear it was a huge success! Sorry about the other product though. Will you get to sell it at the Franchise? Either way, learning a lot is good, I guess. Now, get some rest!
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