Saturday was setup day. I managed to carry a stand in a knapsack and went an hour journey on the transit system and arrived and started to set up our stand. I realized I had a bit of a problem when the large posters I had made up where 42” wide and the panels where 1 meter (39”). I had to get creative. I had 3 different posters and could cut 2 of the 3 down. So I found some large cardboard pieces for 2 of them and cut down the others. The other problem was that I didn’t have a table. I figured that we got a free table like the Rude Health show. No, you have to rent one. So I bit the bullet and went to rent one. £73 for a table you could buy for $20 back home.
Here it is. The bill said 1-table, 4-legs; like the legs were optional or something. Well I got the show set up and here is a picture of the stand.
Sunday – I woke up at 5:30am and started to get ready.
I arrived a ½ early to do the final set ups. The day went really well but long. I never left the booth from 9pm till 5pm. Not even once, to go to the bathroom. I logged around 65 contacts with ½ of them being legit ones. We ran out of brochures at the end of the day and used up 400 of the 500 samples so I am trying to get more from our warehouse. I ran out of my printed ones to so the guy in the booth next door offered to print me 100 more tonight.
I met a guy from Hong Kong and we seem to hit it off. He is inviting me to Hong Kong and telling me how ripe China and Hong Kong is for this product.
My virgin Cell phone is working great. So far it only cost me £9.88.
Well it is 9:30 and I have to wash out 100 samples cups because I am all out of them too
Cheers
5 comments:
That's great news, although the highway robbery of trade shows has always grated me.
Hong Kong, here you come!
PS Regarding your last entry, that bar does sound awesome, but hilarious for you!
Hey dad! Lovin' the blog! It's great to hear how things are going. Traveling always seems to be an adventure hey?!
Sounds like the ladies there love you! Liz sounded like she was interested in more than your safety or your psyche!
Glad to hear you are having lots of memorable adventures...the kind that are always more funny looking back at then when you are in them.
Love ya!
Hey, cool! That's my photo right in the middle of your display!
Good to hear that things are going well - keep us posted.
glad to hear all is going well....the table and everything looks great! .... those immoral Zebras must have been hiding somewhere....maybe in the back where you rented the table.
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