jj2k Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 There has been a bit of discussion lately about booths and sales. Sales are as much a part of blacksmithing as forging. Through sales we support our habit, errrrrrr profession.(yeah that's the ticket!) So post pics of your booth here. If you have a new display you have built, show it here. Let this be the place to show off your ingenuity when it comes to sales. Share your best sales pitch, whatever you'd like, as long as it is about sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj2k Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 Ok well, here is my booth from a show we did in May of this year. I have since redesigned the booth and displays and will post pics of after our next show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj2k Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 Here are some pics of my demo/retail shop at the Beaumont Ranch in Grandview Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 That's a neat little shop you've got there at the Ranch! Here's some of mine, both from the recent faire thread and also from last year's Ishpeming Ren Fest and the Fox Lake medieval faire (the daggers and knives are from the guy I shared a booth with at those two venues.) The Ishpeming (picture-032) and F.L. (hf28 & hf27) pictures show how I've managed to refine my presentation by Ironwood (dsc04975 & dsc04978). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 hello, I will post some pics later next week, I have a Highland show to do on Wed. I did one the other week and forgot to take some pics. whoops! My biggest sales pitch so far has been my partner declaring- ''It's the lady who is the Blacksmith, I just do as I am told, as she usually has a hammer in her hand, and you don't argue with a Lady with a hammer in her hand!" which generally invokes laughter and then conversation about whichever item the customer is looking at. When I have done a fair, I generally use a plain cloth over a table (calico canvas sheet- which I normally paint on, but serves as a pretty useful neutral background) and a couple of tree stumps to put items on. I will post some pics in a couple of days of my gallery/showroom which is painted white... bit boring really, but it shows off black metal in a classical way. Regards. Colleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Hi All, Some photos of my fairly rudimentary stall from our village Highland night. We did fairly well even though the skies opened up quite fiercely! Also, my showroom/gallery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don A Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Lovely gallery, Colleen. Please post a few pictures of the Highland scenery when you get some spare time. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj2k Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 tzonoqua, I like your booth, but I love the gallery. It takes so much work to get things as you want them and to keep it all fresh looking. Nice work. Nick, You do some really good work there. I like your demo set up. I'll be doing a show on August 11th I'll be sure to take some pics of the new booth set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj2k Posted September 11, 2007 Author Share Posted September 11, 2007 This past Saturday we went to Cranfills Gap Texas. They had Septemberfest and a wild game cook off. What a hoot! We had a ball. Made some friends and sold a bit as well. This is how our booth looked with the my redesigned canopy. I had rebuilt the canopy over the summer and the wife made the canvas top. I used Irns design for the posts to rope off my forging area. (thanks Irn, they worked great!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J W Bennett Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 JJ2k, Took awhile to find the thread, Sorry it took so long to answer but the pictures had to be scanned in and resized. I have pictures from April of this year and October. The October show was a 10 day show so I took more tools/equipment than usual. In the April pictures I am on the porch of a general store. BBBig:oplate glass windows. Nervous the whole time. October I had a 10x20 canopy and open on three side much better. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj2k Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 JWB, Man that's awesome!!! You can really tell you went to a lot of time, trouble and expense to make your rig look great. Thanks a lot! Now have to work just THAT much harder! Honestlt though that is a realy nice looking booth. jj2k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj2k Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 This is kinda different, but i think it applies to this thread. I am gonna have to have surgery here real soon and so I had to end my craft show season early this year. But I still needed a way to generate some income. So I rented a booth at a local mini mall. Here are some pics of my initial set up there. I bought the glass case at a local pawn shop and built the stand it is sitting on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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