Festival Report

Well, we're back from High Point's Celebrate Our State festival. With a first year festival, it's always a gamble to see if you will have a financially successful experience or not. For the Whosits crew, this show was more of a "marketing opportunity" than a financial success. We did make a lot of contacts among the artisans and the show visitors, passing out the neato brochure that Eileen had made that explained both etsy and Happy Whosits. Hopefully, we'll see some visitors from these contacts!

The festival itself was great -- very nice venue/facilities, very helpful and pleasant staff, excellent artisans, great bands, tasty food and interesting informational booths. We just didn't have the crowd we'd hoped for. Was the festival competing against too many graduations that weekend? Was the admission fee too high? Was it too hard to find parking in downtown High Point? Was more advertising needed? Should it be more holiday oriented? No one was sure, but we would go back again once the festival matures and finds its audience.

We also experimented with some new display options for the booth that Eileen is considering for our fall festivals. Here's the flickr url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83271516@N00/sets/72157594169920992/

Next on the agenda, I have orders to fill and I need to get the etsy site updated.

Till next time,

Sue....