County show

[enduro]

I went to my county show today and im definitely going to have a stand for Natural stone wall and floor tiling, cleaning etc next year, its only a one day show but loads of wealthy people there...3 metre by 3 metre pitch £130.00, got to be worth ago, anybody else tried it yet?

 

[Daveyboy]

Tried it 10 years ago..complete waste of time and effort...all the organisers were interested in was selling the bays/stalls as quickly as possible...

 

[davy_G]

At £130 quid it might be worth a go.

I can imagine you will need an interactive demo to get folk interested though.

 

[Daveyboy]

At £130 quid it might be worth a go.

I can imagine you will need an interactive demo to get folk interested though.

you could let them have a go at tiling or cleaning tiles :lol::lol:

 

[Daz]

It sounds worth a punt Enduro, one job and it will pay for itself .

On a similar vein, I have been thinking about getting a Saturday market stall to sell tiles from, should pick up a few fixing jobs from it too. I reckon in these so called credit crunch times, people will feel that they are getting a bargain by purchasing tiles from a market rather than plush store??

 

[faithhealer]

It sounds worth a punt Enduro, one job and it will pay for itself .

On a similar vein, I have been thinking about getting a Saturday market stall to sell tiles from, should pick up a few fixing jobs from it too. I reckon in these so called credit crunch times, people will feel that they are getting a bargain by purchasing tiles from a market rather than plush store??

only problem I see there Daz is people will want a cheap 'fix' as well. good luck to anyone trying something different though

 

[Daz]

Yeah, I thought that too, Faithy. But if my aim is purely to sell tiles then I still quote my usual fixing rates and not lose any sleep if I don't get the fixing job.

As long as I'm selling tiles then I'm making money.

 

[Rob Z]

Hi Enduro,

A buddy of mine went to one of those home-expo things, split a booth with another guy (big $$$, something like $2000 for the weekend! :yikes: ) , but he thought it was worth it because he got quite a few jobs out of it. He was organized and had displays, handouts, etc., and he got quite a few calls afterwards.

 

[stevee]

£130 sounds ok ,worth a go considering the amount of bods will be there,steve

 

[Dan]

I've had a stand and sold a few things and Country shows! Always made my money back and then some. Sometime making quite a bit.

Also did other local County shows and ehibitions. It's just a case of getting next to a stand similar to you, and trying to avoid being right next to your competition, or at least the ones with better deals. And if there are no competition, perhaps it would be a wise move for the first guy.

Well done for think about that. I bet you also enjoyed being there which is a must when it comes to selling your skills.

 

[TheWrightTiler]

id give it a crack cause worst comes to worst as long as you get a receipt you can claim it back as advertising and marketing or summat like that, grumpy will know


cheers

andy