Iguanadon Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) Last year: Craft vendor friend #1 - Scott, you really need to do the Topsail Autumn show, it's amazing. Craft vendor friend #2 - Scott, the Topsail Autumn show is fantastic, my best show every year, you need to do it next year... Scott - Yeah, ok, sure, I'll give it a try... Today: HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!! I barely have enough inventory to even do day 2... Blew my record away for 1 day sales... 121 puzzles. Previous record was 96. Absolutely mind blowing. Not nearly the crowd size of my usual top event, but folks were buying like crazy, I thought about just packing up and not doing tomorrow, but this is my first time doing the event and don't want to piss off the organizers by ditching the 2nd day. I made 3 special items that say TOPSAIL ISLAND... they sold out. I kept 1 of each for display so I can take orders but that rarely works since my items are purely an impulse buy. This really helps out my overall sales for the year since I missed several events due to rain and the hurricane. I was already a bit low on inventory, now I'm really in deep trouble with 5 holiday events coming up in November/December. I'm gonna be a busy cutter the next few weeks. Then I'll be ready for a break. Signed, Exhausted Iggy Edited October 20, 2018 by Iguanadon John B, Sam777, meflick and 6 others 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Well done Iggy. It's great to see you being so successful. I used to get a bit stressed when I sold a lot of stock and had other events happening in quick succession, but as my wife kept telling me, "You can only sell it Once, so it dosen't matter where or when, It's a sale" Keep the sawdust flying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Monk Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Congrats Scott. I bet your boss of your day job would be proud of you. Do you get tired of cutting Puzzles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 That is fabulous news Scott. You are going to be a busy bee for a while, so I will wish you a Merry Christmas now. Marg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawson56 Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 A Great Big Congrats. Don't burn up your saw making them Fantastic puzzles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrolling Steve Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Congrats on a great show, Scott ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 congratulations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Wow sounds like a great turnout for you.. Good thing you bought that other saw.. now you can run two at a time.. Maybe Mrs Iggy will jump in on making a few puzzles ... About the only help I get with business from the wife is she'll do some packaging for the mail.. but she won't do any of the computer stuff ( which is my least favorite ) .. but at any rate.. the biggest thing she does is put up with me so at least I'm happy for that. meflick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdatelle Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Nice going Iggy, so glad your knocked it out of the park. Now get to work and start cutting some inventory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockytime Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 HOLY SMOKES Iggy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iguanadon Posted October 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 On 10/20/2018 at 7:52 PM, Dave Monk said: Congrats Scott. I bet your boss of your day job would be proud of you. Do you get tired of cutting Puzzles? Cutting puzzles is my off-hours hobby, instead of going out singing karaoke, the day job doesn't care. I better not get tired of cutting them... I sold 178 of them this weekend and I am so depleted on inventory now I'll be very busy the next 3 weeks before my stretch of 5 straight holiday events begins. If I'd been better prepared for this event, I could have sold another 30-40 but had simply run out of so many things. Can't wait for next year. Scrolling Steve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjweb Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Excellent job Iggy, well that saw will get a work out, but you have another waiting in the wings, so how many have you sold to date, RJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWSUDEKUM Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Very nicely done Scott. Thanks for sharing them with us. DW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iguanadon Posted October 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, rjweb said: Excellent job Iggy, well that saw will get a work out, but you have another waiting in the wings, so how many have you sold to date, RJ Thanks RJ. So, last year I sold 1,013 puzzles and I set a very lofty goal of 1600 for this year based on the events I was planning on signing up for. I certainly didn't account for a very rainy summer and of course Hurricane Florence forcing me to miss most of my weekly farmer market dates (Only did 7 out of my usual 16) and while I'm at 978 so far this year and will easily surpass last years number and I estimate I'll end up around 1300 based on the final 5 events I have lined up thru December 10th. (assuming none of them get rained out). Edited October 22, 2018 by Iguanadon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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