Many of you are selling a lot of pens...let me ask you, where/how do you find the customers.
I have found that if you make a pen for someone as a gift...that person will tell everyone he/she knows and that is the simplest form of advertising. My experience...I made one pen for someone and that has turned into 20-30 customers.
i must not be doing it right. i have given many pens away and have not had a single request from any perspective customers. i have done eight craft shows in the past two years and only sold sixteen pens total. the $1,000 income from those however helps support my addiction to turning.
i must not be doing it right. i have given many pens away and have not had a single request from any perspective customers. i have done eight craft shows in the past two years and only sold sixteen pens total. the $1,000 income from those however helps support my addiction to turning.
Who you give them to can be important. If you have given away several to coworkers then other coworkers may just be waiting for their free pen.
Also, the people you give them to need to be showing them to people who can afford to buy one of your pens. If the person receiving your free pen is showing it to friends, family and coworkers who can barely afford to put food on the table then you are not going to get sales.
I gave a cocobolo pencil to the woman at the local Cable office and she loved it. Every
time I saw her, she was talking about it.. but she wouldn't use it. I told her it was
meant to use. Then I made her a matching pen.
She'll talk it up but keeps them in the box and won't use them at all.
I keep trying to explain that they're not knick knacks .. they're meant to use, but she
insists that they're too nice to risk damaging. (they're OK, but not THAT nice!)
Friday she told me that her granddaughter wants them when she passes on.. so she's
actually putting these two slimlines in her will.
Go figure..