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Since we took pains when closing down from the Scottie show, the packing for the Grand Rapids show went much more smooth. A couple of crates for new stuff, clothes & food, and we’re ready to go. Only hitch right now is the weather–supposed to be windy on the way, and that big trailer likes [...]

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Well, we finally got back from the St Louis Dog Show. While we didn’t sell as much as we’d liked (you always want to sell more ), we covered expenses and made more contacts.  About half of the sales were orders, so I’ve got some cutting to do!
The animal puzzles were well received. We [...]

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I didn’t sell as many puzzles this time as the first month.  It was a smaller crowd, with only two vendors.  However, I did get a few orders, and there may be other orders coming in from folks.  I think the key to the dog show market will be customization: MACH, NATCH, AGILITY, dog names, [...]

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…and I’m pretty much out of it.  One problem with working for yourself is you really can’t take any sick days.  The weekend’s show pretty much took it out of me, so I’ll write more about the results later.  In short, not as many sales as last show, but did more networking.  Dog boxes did [...]

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Not too many sales, but several orders.  In fact, I got one in by email while updating the blog tonight. It’s getting easier to do the custom dog patterns, I just have problems doing a good #2 (as in MACH2). I sold a couple of the dog boxes (one was actually an Eagle box [...]

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Just a quick post here–We’ve been talking with the Gateway Agility Club near St Louis. Looks like we’re going to go to their Agility Show at the end of February. Now, back to making the dogs…

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Just a quick post here–We’ve been talking with the Gateway Agility Club near St Louis. Looks like we’re going to go to their Agility Show at the end of February. Now, back to making the dogs…

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It’s looking more likely that we’ll be going to St Louis for a dog show.  To make it worthwhile, we need to have a good bit of stock.  And having some specialized dogs would be nice as well.  One suggestion was taking the dog’s name out and putting in words such as “Agility” and “MACH”. [...]

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I’m considering another dog show, this one around the St Louis area.  It would be the furthest I’ve gone for a show, but a person (who also sells at dog shows) at the Dayton Dog Show highly recommended it. To do it, though, I’m really going to have to crank out the dog puzzles.  I [...]

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Today we were later to the show. One of Jenny’s cohorts is a priest at a Vietnamese Catholic Church, so we went to there new year’s ceremony. It was all done in Vietnamese, so it was hard to follow. But the people were very nice and explained things to us. The service [...]

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