[sunshine byrd]

Hello everyone I will be doing my first vendor fairs next week (yah!!!). I have decided to haul my heat press with me but am not sure how to set up my booth. I will just be taken white Gilden tees sizes medium to 3xl.i want to print on demand should I put my heat transfers from Pro World in a book for display or should I press each transfer design and display those( I don’t want to waist tee-shirts).? Please help you guys I am already nervous. This will be a religious event so I will also be taken some of my embroidered totes and some journals to sell also. Also anyone know where I can get some bible totes at a reasonable rate? Thanks in Advance..

 

[splathead]

You'll get more sales if your designs, at least the more popular ones, are out on a display wall. Like when you go to a concert and they are selling band t-shirts.

You don't have to use a tee. You could use screen printing pellons

 

[bornover]

We do lots of art and Christian festivals. We don't print on demand, but we do have nice binders that show the designs of the items that are not being displayed in the booth.

Like Joe said, display what you think are your best designs. Put what you think will be your most eye catching stuff unobstructed at eye level when people are walking by. If you choose to display your designs on pellons or something similar, be sure to have one or two real garment samples, for men and women each, for customers to see the fabric, shape/style and sew quality of the garments.

Don't over clutter your space, keep it organized and aesthetically appealing as possible so people can easily look around and want to spend time checking out your stuff, and, keep your booth unconfining so they can walk in if your booth is setup that way and large enough to allow for that.

If you have valuable product on racks or accessible displays of some kind, be sure to have two people working your booth so one of you can watch the stock undistracted as possible. Unfortunately, you still need to do this at Christian/religious events.

 

[printchic]

Hi,

When we did shows and pressed on demand we usually put up the most popular designs in the most popular sizes. I would not put a lot of the same thing up as people will touch/handle it and get them dirty. You have to display to make $$$. So we pressed up say M, LG, XL (1 each) of those design. Once it sold we replaced the design with a new one.

We also offered specials. $14 for one shirt or 2/$24. We usually got the 2/for sales.

Please at festivals don't spend a lot of time weeding through books and if they did they would be in the way of others trying to see the books so you have to have phyical samples displayed. People buy more when they can touch/feel the product.

BE ORGANIZED:

I'm not an organized person but at shows I made sure to be. So I put all my transfers in a big box separated in abc order. I had a big cardboard between each section. So if someone wanted say a design that saod "My Dog Walks All Over me" I would look in the "M" section. If they wanted Aunts are special I looked in the A section. I also put them in alphabetical order within each section if I had time so I would be able to reach it quickly. Sometime we were really busy and it really helped to have a alphabetical system.

Another thing is make sure you have signs. I put up a sign that says... "We'll Make The Design on the Spot... Don't see your size? Just Ask"

May also want to put a sign up that says "We have over 300+ Design don't see something Just Ask we may have it".

That way then know you offer "MORE" than is on your table. If you can afford it you may want to make a b&w catalog page with all your designs so they can see them or take the sheet with them. If you sell online they may come to your site later and buy or even call you.

People coming to a festival are coming to have fun they are not usually coming to buy stuff so they may only carry money to cover food and drinks. So having something they can take home may get you sales after the show.

Much success with your show.

Signed,
Angela H.

 

[sunshine byrd]

Wow u guys are awsome!!!!!! Thanks for your help!!!!