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This all very good advice, none of which I actually do. Sigh.
(Not a knock - Tradd and I are really poor at our tabling)
What's your Luther pitch?
Hah, as far as career advice: Get lucky, be fun to work with and hit our deadlines. Pretty much it.
The thing I can emphasize the most is being on my feet and a vertical display. If you can't immediately connect with a customer, it's a lost opportunity.
That said, the trend of Artist's Alleys filling up with substandard, bootleg crochet, sticker, print and button makers is troubling. This is why juried systems are best.
Bingo.
Thanks, Steve.
So, in the above picture, you see me and my traditional 8-foot table layout. When I'm at a con with 6' tables, the layout is slightly different. Because man, those extra 2 feet are really valuable.
These are the keys:
1. A black tablecloth, 8' long. Black hides stains and pulls and looks professional.
2. The banner, which I typically attatch to the front of the table or (if I'm against a wall) to the wall behind me. Why don't I have a vertical banner yet? Laziness.
3. Unseen: a blue tablecloth I use as an overnight drape. Also a rubber floormat, a handcart, a plastic tub full of supplies, markers, etc.
ON THE TABLE: 1. A pricing sign.
. 2. The big vertical rack on the right side. This serves two purposes: Vertical rack gets people's attention, and because I have so many books, they're all available to see without eating a lot of tabletop real estate.
3. Next to that are two stacks of the Strawbery Shortcake Digests. Why aren't these in the vertical rack, you ask? So kids can see them and grab them and say BUY THIS FOR ME, DADDY!
4. Next to that is a binder of sketch cards. They're $5 each or 3 for $10, an easy price point.
. 5. Next to that is a small (8.5x11) portfolio of sketches. Most of these are mine, but a few of @Marvinmann's pieces are here, too. Prices range from $1 to $30.
6. Next to that is a large portfolio of comic book pages from the books I've done with @Marvinmann. I exhibit more than he does, and I offered to sell the pages for him. We split the proceeds. I write him a lot of small checks.
7. FInally, all the way on the left is a shortbox of comics from my own collection. I started offering this at a small show in the Chicago suburbs this year, and it's been a huge hit. An estimated 1/4 of the $$$ I've made at cons this year has been from that box, about $630 so far. I've refilled it several times. Books range from $1 to $50. That box is all the way at one end and the rack is all the way at the other to give me a clear line of sight and a workspace in the middle. It seems to work out OK. Although, honestly, the table doesn't look as nice as when I had shorter vertical book racks running across the 8 feet of space. But, my sales haven't suffered.