SHOWS and customers

[genek]

For those that do shows, or have customer in your office or shop. Invest in a DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME. Take pictures of you working on product, of finished product, your employee's working, your family as a whole, and pictures of your shop equipment doing what it does.

People love to see how things are made, and other products that you make.
This is a cheap way of letting your customers see the value of your work.
This is a good cheap way to advertize for yourself.

Set The Picture frame up at shows where they will see it as they approach your booth or where they will see it when the enter your building.

[Roy Harding]

Good idea.

It's also a good idea to do some of your work onsite. I do Farmer's Markets and Craft Shows and built a mobile workbench that I bring with me. I install hinges, locks, sharpen chisels - whatever needs to be done. I'll occasionally do hand cut dovetail lessons, etcetera.

It attracts people (who doesn't like to watch a craftsman work?) and sparks many conversations.