 is up and welcome back this week we're heading deep south for our first big craft show of the year that's right this week's video is all about our whole new craft food setup our DIY craft food setup we made the whole thing we're gonna test it out this week so we thought not only should we test it out we're gonna take you on the journey with us how did we get there the good bad the ugly set it up unloading and setting it up breaking it down we're gonna show you all of that and take you on that journey with us we got six hours and there's gonna be a lot of ugly so let's load them up and head them out we are so excited about our new display racks that I couldn't wait to get them in the trailer but once we are getting a moon there we realized they couldn't lay flat up against the front of the trailer so we ended up splitting them in hindsight they probably should have went in last along with the rug because those are gonna come out first and get up set up first but the great thing here is we were able to get three wagons wide three rows of them they wouldn't perfectly this is Garrett's camera angles to no whereville oh we mean we're not gonna stop stop and get some food and I had to pee so we stopped the truck oh man truck oh man truck wash we're not at the truck yeah we're at the truck wash about a little bath at the same time okay 3 p.m. we've been traveling since about 11 30 so we just stopped and grabbed a sandwich and we have about two hours exactly two hours two hours to go we're somewhere in Carolina three hours exactly yes 546 we have two hours and 45 minutes right there there were a couple of last-minute signs I didn't make it into the wagon so you can see those in the backseat and that's it it's kind of cloudy can you see it's kind of a cloudy day it's not sunny this is a fun ride that's okay right you've been watching some some of the iPad catch it up a little miss TV things I I try and recite what's going on to Garrett trying not to get him over she gives me like a good narration we don't really have a hotel yet I already know the hotels in the area nothing was a good price I couldn't decide which one I wanted to stay at so we're winging it yeah kind of winging it I guess when I get off of this little update right now I'll go look at the room and that's it I'll let you know when we get there we have to have we have to be set up by 8 p.m. so our arrival time is 546 so we'll have about two and a half hours to get set up I think 30 minutes would be plenty especially with the new setup yeah did you guys see that loading that was beautiful I think the loading only took like 12 minutes our only lesson learned from a new set up is the hand truck should have been in the back yeah and it's all the way in the front right now so we got to take everything out to get to the hand truck so that's I take everything inside yeah those kind of our lesson learned but next time we will know and I guess that's it for now I'll give you an update when we get a little closer see a little bit okay here's where the ugly comes in seems like it but I see some trailers down there let's go see what's up down there all right 6 30 we have to be set up by 8 I still think we have plenty of time now we just need to figure out where to unload so what are you here to say these guys are not unloading they're just they're done so you want me to go in this way you can turn you can fix it once you get straight down ready finally gets it in there now Tanner was nice enough to edit out the 72-point turn it took Garrett to get this trailer in there appropriately because he was it was too much of an angle and our trailer was trying to hit the trailer beside us but ultimately he pulled in backed it up pulled it in backed it up Rubens racing Kim and then they came out bragging yeah who's a trailer master I'm all in my spot here you can take it it's so we're gonna get on I am so here I'm sharing that he was lucky enough that our booth is like the second booth in from the back right here it was the perfect place to park it was the perfect place and I knew that it didn't know anything and you can see that we had to pull everything out of the trailer to get the racks the dolly dolly was all the way in the back there it is in the back so we had to go get that before we could actually start setting up and then here we are there you go one two all right we were the third booth in now this was super easy that I mean just rolling out the carpet was easy but setting up our new display racks so easy with the easy feet you know once Kim got the the wick correct he's just slid right it's a little argument there too far apart too close together too far apart then what's we had to shift them around they're also pretty easy you know just move the feet and the whole thing so I I enjoy these new display rack yes a very I think it gives it a much more finished complete look than the wire racks which I love they're super durable they're they're great and they have their purposes but for us they were just a little too heavy they pinched my fingers every time I tried to disassemble them and I was hoping to give the little more of that wood feel to the booth so this is doing exactly what I wanted to do and these little banners here these little banners totally work people stop and read them and scan the QR code almost every time all right we are here we are all set it's only 730 took us well like 45 minutes to set up I drew this whole thing up the only changes I thought I'd have some panels on this side so we might have to keep working these are DIY panels we think I love them easy to set up yeah they were super easy easy to translate and what do you think about our outdoor room makes you think the front door see how it goes yeah I feel outdoor I might kick the shoes off all right I'm going to get something to eat and take it net I will see you in the morning hi good morning day one of the Columbia craft we have everything set up we have extra storage behind the booth behind the booth this is where we hit all of our wagons so we have two wagons full of stuff and we started hanging stuff on the back of the years Kim's added all of the little price tags we engraved on price tags and I think we are good to go the pegboards work out great and we're using these little hooks to put them on the holes for now but we're looking to get dowels so that we can hang them on the front and the back just take it you know just a little bit higher level otherwise I think we're ready to go looks like a good show and it looks like a lot of good advertising we saw a couple of billboards and commercial this morning so I think we're all set so this is where I decided to invade all of our customers privacy and secret secretly record everybody here you can see the flow is coming up from behind us so everybody comes in the first row up and down and then they come up our row here but the great thing is you can see that carpet is kind of keeping those strollers outside of the booth and the great thing about that is that more people can then walk into the booth so previously if we had one stroller in our booth and one person that was it the booth was occupied until they were done with the grass down it's an invisible barrier yeah it's like that invisible dog collar for strollers strollers yes yes so that's one of the lessons learned that I didn't even anticipate but that was great because it leaves more room for other folks to walk in and with the length of our booth you can see that everybody gets to dip in and dip out they get they're able to swing in view all of the signs and if they're not going to purchase swing on out it's the flow of traffic moving in that 10 by 10 people would get clustered in there and I feel like some people would pass on by not being able to see what was in the booth or being know that they couldn't step in and the other thing is we're not right in the middle now our checkout booth isn't right in the middle so they don't feel the need to have to make conversation with us or even eye contact yes or even eye contact because we were when they stepped in we were already behind them so that we were there if they needed us if they looked for us we were absolutely there all right Kim sent me out to the trailer again this is where we keep all of our stuff we're right there behind the dumpster is the door and I just come out every time when we need a new cart or a wagon and I pull it out of the trailer all right that is it day one in the books I don't know what if we're in frame or not but day one is in the books we're in the parking lot right now look our tip for like day one or Fridays is there's a lull in the afternoon gets a little boring yes for Friday afternoon I think things started slowing down by 1.32 o'clock yeah it's like after lunchtime so show ended at 7 so we had five hours to I mean people came by but there wasn't a steady stream of people coming by especially like by 3 or 4 o'clock yeah was really dead and that's when we started looking for snacks let's go let's go try the the fruit tips first I get snacky then I get sleep oh no you first got sleepy as soon as he ate lunch he had an apple and some salad some salad and then next thing I know he was like is like this but then the funny part was and you don't even know but after like 20 minutes you were like this he was slumping further and further and people were like oh he's big help and I was like yeah what a big help so I mean but I I did wake up and I and I tried to stay busy the rest of the time I tried to stay busy by designing on the iPad Kim tried to stay busy by by abandoning the booth every 10 minutes well that's what I do I go and I meet people that's what you got it's not what you know it to you know right so I would go out make friends that's when I started bartering we met a lady today what pitched to the shark tank or whatever yeah she's been on qvc qv8 hsn hsn like 50 times yeah we get to meet a lot of people I met a couple that never stops doing shows in the winter they head south to Florida and hit that fish craft show circuit and as it starts to warm up like now they start to head back north that's our new plan day that's my plan he was like all right we gotta hurry up and get that RV yeah that was the other thing coming in today we saw the RVs parked right by the gate and we were like hmm we're gonna spend probably I think it's around $400 for the three nights yeah and we could have just stayed in RV I can see the RVs from this parking lot right here we could have walked here in the morning we had to get on the highway to get here this morning and then we spent money at the hotel although we did get some free breakfast free breakfast yeah I speak in a free breakfast I gotta go get something to eat right now so we will see you guys in the morning good morning day two we got some snacks for our booth so that we don't have to eat all that junk food all day yeah that's that was fun at first and then you're like okay that's just not healthy yeah you still bloated half the day back of the booth for day two we're just setting up they just opened the doors Saturday Saturday is usually busier we don't have much downtime Saturdays like you do Friday no nap in today I don't know that that's still up there and of day two we had a lot of visitors come by a lot of good time today had a small small nap got busted by a visitor but we're getting ready to go get some mose this is the good part of hitting craft shows is all the food I gain a lot of weight on the show we'll see you in the morning good morning at day three spring craftsman classic Columbia South Carolina we had a pretty good show so far yeah so far so good we've had a great weekend it's birthday weekend so we had a little extra fun this weekend a lot of people can buy to visit yeah I thank you guys for coming by and saying hi to us that was really fun the displays are holding up beautifully they did everything we wanted them to do yeah it's China do some auto-focus so Sunday is usually a little slower than Saturdays so we'll see if our luck continues through the weekend yeah we can like some empty spots sold out of some things so we'll take that back and use that information for next week's show we learned we learned some things I can't like to share with you what we've learned with our display racks and our little rug here and our booth and a half and I noticed it doesn't feel as crowded when people come in so I think it's working out share some of those things with you when you get back to the shop so I look like a lumberjack with this camera angle but and I'm blocking the camera but the transaction that just occurred is Heidi if her husband came up introduced themselves they watch our YouTube channel and Heidi's husband is 30 years in a sale as a sales director yes so the funny thing about this was Garrett and I were just negotiating a whether or not to greet customers he's like do not attack them just let them browse and I said no signs so themselves yes that's what you said and I said no have you ever taken any kind of sales program you greet your customers and you share a little bit about your product and he was like no so we had just been debating this yeah I mean we were we were in the middle of debating this way yes when Heidi and her husband came up to the booth and while Kim was talking to Heidi I was talking to her husband I'm so sorry I forgot your name but the information you gave me was life-changing yes seriously so as we were talking about this he was like do you greet your customers when they come into the booth and I was like no I let the so the signs sell themselves and that's gonna explain that he had 30 years in the sales business and that I need to open with every time that these are handmade because these look so nice people might think you're buying and reselling you know the time and effort that went into this and that you are the artist that created these and handmade each of these he's like that will go a long way in making a sale and just as he finished that up a would-be customer walks into the booth and they're just perusing and he says do you know that each one of these is handmade look at the details of the details in the side and they ended up buying a sign well and Heidi says which one would look best on your friend yes they're such great salesman I learned so much in a short period of time that they're in our booth that we're gonna rethink how we greet our customers yeah I it was it was a little bit eye-opening yeah well the universe was saying hey Garrett let me give you a little extra information if you don't believe Kim we're gonna reinforce it with an expert we weren't able to intro the breakdown of our booth I mean it was easy but what happens is they start to play this race music like the old-timey racetrack music and everybody gets in a race mode yes nobody is in a rush setting up but everybody is in a hurry breaking down and I'm gonna have to say I get caught up in it yes yes I am one of those lemmings racing towards the cliff yes it's it is it is exactly what you would use music you would use to narrate a race and Garrett just yes it gets he gets everybody gets in the mood I mean the parking lot gets crazy you can see that everybody around me is also breaking down in record speed not that it's just in fast for everybody is breaking down in record speed it's I think there's somebody standing there with us a stopwatch oh and they also make the announcement of basically you don't have to go home but you can't stay here I swear the lights get a little bit brighter I didn't hear last call everybody's racing for the exit though did you know you could get all of our files behind the scene content and even a Kim and Garrett after dark podcast as well as monthly zoom calls access to a secret Facebook group and we'll even send you one of these fancy t-shirts all for $20 a month it's the best way to support this channel so join us over at patreon.com all right we made it back safe and sound I didn't even run out of gas it was a quick trip home we have our favorite stop at Bucky's that was exciting that's in South Carolina and then we just rest of the way home one quick stop for gas so my 1230 gonna load up that trailer again and head on to our next craft show this weekend coming up will be in Richmond Virginia right here three miles from our shop yeah I like them when they're closer all right we are about out of time so if you're not gonna join us for the patron after show we'll get in a little deeper some of the crazy stops that we made along the way and we will see you next Friday where we'll do it building and make it again and there's nothing to balance