![]() However, the main lesson was, and possibly one of the biggest reasons my sales dropped this year, is that I’ve reached the point of over-saturation on my own table. These were the prototypes, so after a few adjustments I’ll list them on Etsy and see if they’d do better there. (I’d like to try some spooky animal skull/flower ones next). I really had a lot of fun making them and want to explore more original designs. BUT! That’s not to say that I’m giving up on them. ![]() So I’m thinking unless I’m willing to go full-crafter, I can’t expect my necklaces to sell well. Walking around the Artist Alley, I realized that most of the tables with attention-grabbing necklace displays… focus on jewelry/accessories exclusively. I believe it also didn’t help that I had recycled button art for my necklaces instead of creating new designs. After I rearranged them to be more center stage, more people did notice the necklaces but I only ended up selling two. Friday, when my jewelry stand took the corner, I noticed that most people would glance over it and immediately be attracted to the button display. What I learned about phone charms and necklaces though was that my current table layout is not geared towards smaller items, due to my larger staples. (Or maybe that fourth item could be the zipper pouches?) However, with my experience at AWA… I’m sort of wondering if I don’t need a fourth staple item. Truthfully, I’ve always had that experimental corner and whatever I put there doesn’t seem to do as well as my staples (buttons, prints, and badges). I had previously mentioned t hat part of the reason I’m retiring the Bakura dakimakura cases was that they took up a lot of table real estate without much sales, as they are a higher priced item, so for AWA I wanted to experiment with the pendants and phone charms to see if either could become one of my staple products. I can think of at least two reasons my own table didn’t personally do well. (Which, got a couple artists to comment they had never seen my real hair before, lol!) So, I do believe I’m to blame for not meeting my goal, but after talking to other artists, there seems to be a general agreement that AWA was poor sales all around this year.Ī few theories that’ve been floating around include the noise levels from the Main Events Room, the table layouts, and an increase in badge prices. ![]() By Sunday I didn’t even bother to wear cosplay or a wig. I’ll admit, I was pretty discouraged by the slowness (and shoplifting) of Friday traffic and it really effected my attitude for the rest of the weekend. My chillax approach however did seep into my salesmanship, and I do feel I could’ve made more if I tried harder to be at my top game. I didn’t quite realize the craziness of that until Friday morning, standing in front of my table with not enough space for my phone charms or grab bags. Yet, in spite of that, I managed to produce 19 new products between AWA and Otakon. Nothing too ambitious, just a bit of winding down at the end of the con season. Ribbit, the AA director, even recognizes me now, lol!Īnyway! As the home con I usually approach AWA as the safe convention. I consider Anime Weekend Atlanta to be my current home convention, as it’s the one I’ve attended most consistently (2012-2014) and back in 2010 when I went full table I consider it to be my first real artist alley experience.
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