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Thanks Hurricane Matthew


Iguanadon

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I'm a weather geek and two days later I'm still baffled by how my little town, on an island (Carolina Beach, NC), in the path of Matthew, came out virtually unscathed.  Go 10 miles inland and the entire eastern half of North Carolina had major flooding with upwards of 10-18" and here I sit, on the coast and we received only 2 1/2 inches with winds under 50mph.

 

Since I didn't even lose power, I was able to devote the entire weekend to cutting dog puzzles in preparation for my long awaited big event, a dog rescue festival coming up this Saturday.

 

At last count I have 55 different breeds that will be available and on display and I currently have 60 duplicates of the more popular breeds cut and shrink wrapped ready to sell.  I can only base popularity based on my sales this past summer and I'm sure I'll get flooded with requests for some oddball breed that I would have never thought to stockpile.  :-)

 

My most recent task was gathering the pictures of each individual item I've ever made and printing them out and placing them in a photo album to have on hand to show when someone asks for a particular breed of dog that I currently don't have on hand to show/sell them.

 

Wish me luck.  I'm still cutting and hope to have a bunch of orders to fulfill next week.

 

Iggy

 

 

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Scott, I just checked out your facebook page, and I read about how well you were doing at the sales you attend. Your making good money off of these puzzles, hopefully, sales will keep up for you. What do you sell besides puzzles, anything? And what percentage of puzzles you sell, are dog puzzles?

Len

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Scott, I just checked out your facebook page, and I read about how well you were doing at the sales you attend. Your making good money off of these puzzles, hopefully, sales will keep up for you. What do you sell besides puzzles, anything? And what percentage of puzzles you sell, are dog puzzles?

Len

 

Hi Len,

 

Thanks for looking.  This was my first summer selling items and in 13 Saturdays at my local Farmers Market I sold a total of 318 puzzles.  155 of them were dogs, almost exactly half.  Next best seller were the simple colored dinosaur puzzles, 73 of those. Zoo animals and sea critters combined were another 80.

 

Keep in mind that I live in a tourist/beach community so I have the good fortune to have a fresh batch of potential customers roaming around the market every Saturday.  Although I was happy to learn that a good portion of the weekly shoppers were local residents.

 

I'll report back after my big dog rescue fundraiser event this Saturday.  

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Hi Len,

 

Thanks for looking.  This was my first summer selling items and in 13 Saturdays at my local Farmers Market I sold a total of 318 puzzles.  155 of them were dogs, almost exactly half.  Next best seller were the simple colored dinosaur puzzles, 73 of those. Zoo animals and sea critters combined were another 80.

 

Keep in mind that I live in a tourist/beach community so I have the good fortune to have a fresh batch of potential customers roaming around the market every Saturday.  Although I was happy to learn that a good portion of the weekly shoppers were local residents.

 

I'll report back after my big dog rescue fundraiser event this Saturday.  

Blessings in disguise!

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