12-08-2013, 06:48 PM | #91 |
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Slowest day yet. Sold $40. Needed $95 to break even and was hoping for $150. Ouch. ::sigh::
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12-08-2013, 07:18 PM | #92 |
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Could you Festivize the packaging?
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12-08-2013, 07:21 PM | #93 |
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I'm sorry it's not going so well and sorry if I seem unsympathetic. When it comes to problems, I'm all man....
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12-08-2013, 07:46 PM | #94 |
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I'm sorry it's not going well.
I wonder why people aren't buying so much this week? Maybe spending money on Xmas gifts and also eating lots of holiday sweets last week is causing a lack of demand. |
12-08-2013, 09:12 PM | #95 |
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I wondered that. Or if it's just too hot there when people are really wanting to feel a chill?
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12-09-2013, 06:42 AM | #96 |
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I really believe beans would be a great marketing aid
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12-10-2013, 10:15 AM | #97 |
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I'm not sure what the deal is. It's not just me -- the market hasn't had a lot of foot traffic. Some of my fellow vendors go the whole day without a sale or only make one or two sales. Kitsune hypothesizes maybe people are hitting the malls for their holiday shopping instead of browsing street markets. :-/
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12-10-2013, 11:19 AM | #98 |
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The mood is winter even if Florida's weather is not.
Plus, families only have so much $ for holiday spending,/ Once it's spent, it can't be spent again and merchants know this. .. so we have Black Friday on Nov 1st... next year it'll be Oct 15th |
12-10-2013, 09:57 PM | #99 |
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Probably true, dedicated shopping expeditions complete with the gnashing of teeth and renting of cloth, looking for the only toilet water Aunt Edith will accept.
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12-15-2013, 04:33 PM | #101 |
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Thanks all for the good wishes. I had a MUCH better market day today. I took less product and was able to sell it all. Not huge profits, but enough to buy supplies needed for the next two weeks. Hooray!
Also a milestone: today was the longest I've ever been away from Beans! 7.5 hours. Hard on Mama's heart, but she and Kitsune did just fine. |
12-15-2013, 04:52 PM | #102 |
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Congratulations, Choco! Maybe having less on display prompted some people to buy before all the pies were gone ...? Less supply, more demand sort of thing.
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12-15-2013, 04:56 PM | #103 |
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Hmm, could be! I don't usually display them all at once, but maybe having fewer flavors helped. The weather was muuuuch cooler than last weekend so that helped a lot! I also advertised that I can do party trays so hopefully that'll result in some orders over the course of the week.
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12-15-2013, 04:57 PM | #104 |
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Great idea! You can do flavor combos for both adult and kid parties.
And for offices ... people bring in all sorts of goodies through the holidays. Hit up some professional offices with your brochures, and any government offices you can get access to. I think you'd see orders out of that ...
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12-15-2013, 08:07 PM | #105 |
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Considering you're a newbie to both the location and the business, I think you're doing fine.
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