[TheForge] Suggestions, please

[Bob Ehrenberger]

I pass out a lot of cards at demonstrations,  and get about 2 calls a year
for custom work. Nothing very big usually.

At the demos I sell a lot of camping and cooking stuff:  tripods, grills,
BBQ forks, spoons, lid lifters,  and a variety of hooks.  Each event is
different what sells, it's hard to predict what will be hot.  It's good to
have a few high end items, I sell three or four fire place sets each year.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.

--- Original Message-----
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:14:33 -0500
From: "Grover Richardson" <grover.richardson at gtri.gatech.edu>
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Suggestions, please

A couple of thoughts:::

I know a smith (on this list<G>) who did bunches of demos, all waiting for
someone to come along and ask for him to make that big thing which would
make a lot of money.  As I remember, it was a fancy table<G>.  Never
happened.

Second, I have put out over (rough guess) 800 business cards at similar
events.  Never ever, not ever, not one call from the business cards.  So
leave a few out, when they are gone, leave the empty holder, then find one
in the pocket somewhere when someone who appears to be really interested
wants one.  We have taken to putting business cards on the wife's textiles.
The back of the card has the name of the item, description, and price.
Double duty.  If someone buys the item and doesn't want the card, we save
it<G>.

Then another smith I know got a phone call from a sign on the side of his
truck.

Good luck.



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