Well quite a bit to post so will break it up into 3 or 4 posts over the next couple of days! The first big event last week was my sale at the Embassy. Of course like always for me it was a total rush before hand, spent the last day before trying to build up a little more inventory in the non-pen department so made some cigar punches and bottle stoppers and a shaving kit. When it was all said and done had about 100 items for sale which was right on track for what my goal was. This is what my table looked like for the sale!
Over all over the two days I sold about 27 items and took orders for a few more for a total of about 750 Jordanian Dinars or close to $1300. About half of that was material costs or sales cost so over all not bad. The sale itself was great but was not the sole primary goal, the main idea was to get my name out there for making these products so that people would come to me later with orders or requests. For the sale I had to give the club 15% of gross sales for allowing me to set up my table but for these follow on sales I do not have to pay them anything. So that is what I am hoping for and sure enough so far had 12 follow on sales/orders.
A couple lessors learned was that I did not have enough smaller/thin pens for the ladies, I went home the first day of the sale and turned 6 slim line pens and most of them sold during the second day so lesson learned there! I will be ordering a few more different kits to fill that demographic I was missing!
Of course the down side of that is the two days following the sale that I was supposed to be preparing for my trip I spent making the follow on orders that I had the kits for making for a rushed trip preparation. It also looks like I will be making a substantial kit order this week in order to full the rest of my orders! The shaving kits were the big special order items! Well that concludes the blog on the sale! Tomorrow we will talk about my trip back to the states and my run in with the Jordan Military Police at the airport!!
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| Sales Table at the US Embassy, Amman Jordan |
Over all over the two days I sold about 27 items and took orders for a few more for a total of about 750 Jordanian Dinars or close to $1300. About half of that was material costs or sales cost so over all not bad. The sale itself was great but was not the sole primary goal, the main idea was to get my name out there for making these products so that people would come to me later with orders or requests. For the sale I had to give the club 15% of gross sales for allowing me to set up my table but for these follow on sales I do not have to pay them anything. So that is what I am hoping for and sure enough so far had 12 follow on sales/orders.
A couple lessors learned was that I did not have enough smaller/thin pens for the ladies, I went home the first day of the sale and turned 6 slim line pens and most of them sold during the second day so lesson learned there! I will be ordering a few more different kits to fill that demographic I was missing!
Of course the down side of that is the two days following the sale that I was supposed to be preparing for my trip I spent making the follow on orders that I had the kits for making for a rushed trip preparation. It also looks like I will be making a substantial kit order this week in order to full the rest of my orders! The shaving kits were the big special order items! Well that concludes the blog on the sale! Tomorrow we will talk about my trip back to the states and my run in with the Jordan Military Police at the airport!!
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