so guys i was in the process of filming
my teardown but i had to stop because my
tent actually started to blow away in
the wind morning everybody
we are getting ready to go to our
farmers market this morning
and it's still dark out our farmers
market today starts
at 8 a.m but we are getting ready to go
here at 5 a.m because kale is actually
the market manager
for this particular farmers market so we
have to be the first people there
so that is what we're doing we're
getting ready kayla's pouring some
coffees right now we'd
like to bring two big thermoses
of coffee because we need it and
we are getting our last minute things
together we just charged our square
reader
we have some drinks and snacks what else
we need to do kale
are we we are pretty good i
you talked about the square reader yes
okay okay yep that's all charged good to
go that charge overnight
and then we just need to load up and go
i already have all my
market manager stuff loaded up in the
car um the
equipment for the table or for our booth
is loaded up from last night
yeah sweet great so on this video today
you're going to come with us
to the market and we're going to show
you how we set up our booth
i'm going to talk about my strategies on
how i am able to sell and
you'll also just be able to see what a
typical day is like so
excited and if that's something that
you're interested in keep watching
so we have arrived at the farmer's
market fairgrounds
and i'm just going to wait until kale
gets a few duties done as a market
manager
and then he's going to help me set up my
tent and we will show you how we get our
tent set up right now
sick and tired of the nine to five in
the city like
hey darling
we could get out of town see
the beautiful world around wanna see it
now
pack our bags and get in that car
leave a little note and we'll drive real
far
let's get out we can leave this city
let's drive to the open air
yeah the countryside is so pretty
with the wind blowing in your hair
we can look back someday
baby don't you understand that we only
get one life
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hey darlin you know we're gonna have a
really good
in the time of the night when the stars
are bright
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pack our bags and get in that car
leave a little note
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let's drive to the open air
yeah the countryside is so pretty
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baby don't you understand
that we only get one life i wanna make
it count honey come on
let's get out we can leave this city
let's drive to the open air
yeah the countryside is so pretty
with the wind blowing in your hair
we can look back someday
baby don't you understand
that we only get one love i wanna make
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but i'm not sure if what i do is wrong
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it's an obsession that is much too
strong
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i know
us still feels strong
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i want you to know that with you i feel
hope
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so we are mostly set up and i want to
show you really quick the last minute
things that i think are important that
people often overlook
and that is a space behind your table
where you can organize things like your
mask
your bags my coffee i always have coffee
and some sanitizer and my float
this is always great to have and here's
my book for the slow times
and then also you want to make sure that
you have space on your tables for
customers to
set their own purses down or their
wallets down you'll be surprised at how
valuable this space will be for people
who have a lot of things that they're
carrying
so it's always a good thing to do and
here are my business cards
using that ikea soap dish that i was
talking about you can see how they're
pretty secure and
almost windproof and customers can
easily pick up a card if they need to
and everything has their price very
clearly marked
and here are my soaps nicely displayed i
want
to have the appearance of a very full
display so that's why i like to spread
them out a little bit and a little tip
too if you have other products in the
same scent
try putting them next to each other
because you'll find that if people like
grapefruit they'll see a grapefruit body
butter next to it and be like you know
what i'll buy both
so that's what i try to do here there's
a french lavender lotion over there
and here are my candles and here are my
bath bombs all nicely displayed
um i we try to put the sunshade up to
block the sun
but that's obviously not working so well
here
so i'm going to put the bath bombs that
if they
were to fade a little bit it's not going
to matter too much it's not going to
look too different and the ones that are
very susceptible to fading like my
cherry bombs i put them here in the
corner
but this is the display and these are
the tins that we got from the dollar
store but look how beautiful
everything looks all together wow
it is amazing how easy and affordable
displays can be and here are our
jars our body butters sugar scrubs
and here are lip balms as well and i got
these jars from the dollar store
and they're pretty uh pretty solid
they're sitting on their lids so that's
what keeps them
secure and i have strategy with these
lip balms i like to put the
more adult ones up here and if there's
more kid-friendly ones
i like to put them down at the bottom
and that has
helped me sell a few lip balms so just a
pro tip
when it comes to that this is the
display
so it's the first hour and we've made a
few sales
we've made about 35 worth of sales and
that's how it is this particular market
is super slow in the beginning and then
it just
really revs up and as you can see
it's starting to get a little windy so
be prepared for wind when you are
vending another reason why weights at
the base of your
tent is super important and for those
curious this tent is
actually a 10 by 10 foot tent which is
pretty standard when it comes to
vending outdoors so if you didn't watch
my getting ready for a farmer's market
video i mentioned
that these guys are not wind friendly
and yeah the wind is kicking up and this
guy keeps falling down
so when it comes to that we have this
sticky tack to the rescue
and you only need a small piece
you take a little bit like this stick it
to the back of your
of your sign and we stick it right onto
the wooden risers and it does get a
little bit messy but
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it sticks pretty well
and that should be that should stay a
little bit better
for those of you that are really
discouraged about farmers markets and
vending in person in general here is a
wild story for you
i just had a customer that um came in
and spent
almost 100 in one order and that
customer met me
in an event that i did about two years
ago when i first started vending
so you guys never know where your next
big sale is going to come from and
that's the big point about vending and
farmers markets is to putting
is to put yourself out there so that
people can find you and know about your
business
and the more people know about you the
more chances your business will grow
and another thing about that hundred
dollar order that i wanted to mention
real quick
she paid with credits so if you're gonna
be doing farmers markets or events
get that square reader guys because that
would have been 100 out the door
if i didn't have an ability for her to
pay with credit or debit
so another tip i like to keep a full
looking table so when i start to get
something that's starting to run low
like over here are watermelon
bath bombs i like to move them over to
another
tin and just
get rid of the 110 so that
i keep a pretty full looking setup
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so the market is winding down and in
terms of sales we had a pretty great day
today
last week was better um last week we
almost sold out of bath bombs and
this week we are still
there's still many left sold a lot of
candles though
we only have three candles left
so it goes to show that you can really
not predict
how a market will go it could be so
different
and even though we have lots of bath
bombs left we still were able to make
a great amount of money and we we love
it we just love being out here and
getting to speak with our customers face
to face there's nothing like it
and we will we will show you guys how we
tear down
everything it's pretty straightforward
and we've done it so many times now that
we do it pretty quickly so
i'll show you guys how we do that right
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no regrets
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so guys i was in the process of filming
my tear down
but i had to stop because my tent
actually started to blow away in the
wind
and this is why having a great sturdy
tent
and weights is so important because as
soon as a big gust of wind comes
and you don't have proper weights or
your tent is broken like ours is
that'll send a flying and we also had
that wall that was blocking the sun out
for a bit and that acted as a sail
so two years of ending we still
are making mistakes like that we have to
buy a new tent because we are definitely
going to be
doing more farmers markets for the
season and it's just a start
so that is on our to-do list
kayla's finishing up right now he's
going around doing
his duties as a market manager we're
gonna go home we're gonna count the
money
and we'll let you know how he did so
we're back
it is now night time because we actually
got home and we were so tired that we
actually
took a nap and did a few other things
but we are now at the part where we're
going to be counting the money
and we want to let you guys know how we
did so let's go ahead and do that
so i had 59 coins so 2.79
15 59 in points okay fifty nine dollars
275 here so that's
275 and 53 25
so uh another nine is 334 in cash
sorry 394 334. cash and how much were it
was
the debit and credit sales 371 i'm gonna
double check that here
card sales were 371 plus
334 which gives us a grand total of
seven hundred and five dollars and our
table fee was how much kale
um 32 32 so
yeah this is a pretty good day for us
back when we first started vending
at this particular farmers market it was
typical of us to get maybe
200 in sales 300 in sales and after just
a couple of
years doing this market we've now grown
a following
to the point where we're able to make
some pretty good money so i would say
that when it comes to farmers markets
sticking it out and showing it up as
often as you can is probably the key
to that market because even if you don't
do well even if people don't buy your
stuff it's such a great learning
opportunity
to see what you can do to get people to
start buying things
and i think that will be the next
farmers market video is the strategies
that we've um applied in order to
get sales to go up because i i did say
that the secret is showing up but there
are also other things that we've learned
over time
so if you are interested in knowing
about that kind of stuff
about specific farmer's market sales
strategies let us know in the comments
below and
if any of you guys have any farmer's
markets tips and
and tricks that you guys want to share
with everyone else please let us know in
the comments below as well
yeah i would consider the uh today and
the previous week that we were at the
same market
um which was a little bit higher total
very good days
um we also have to consider this is a
long hard day's work
yeah i was up at 4 20 this morning you
were up at 4
at 4 45 or so yeah we were up pretty
late
or sorry i was up pretty late yeah you
were up really late and then up early
ended up early yeah yeah i went to bed a
little bit before you
uh but like these are these are just
long days and uh it's a lot of work that
goes into it we come home
exhausted we come home pooped so um
a lot of time out in the sun and uh and
it takes it out of you
yeah and sometimes you'll go and
disasters will happen like your tent
crashing down on you and blowing away
and that's all the stuff that you have
to
be prepared for so it's not it's not a
easy money let's just put it that way
but i think it's totally worth it to
get to know your local customer base and
to develop that
one-on-one personal relationship with
their customers and that's something
that you just cannot do
online um as much as you post on social
media
i think that's where the true value of
vending in person
at farmer's markets is so that is it we
got such a
great response from the last farmers
market video and a lot of you were
asking us to create more farmers market
type content so
here it is and like i said before we're
going to keep talking about farmers
markets because it is the season
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and until the next video keep smiling
keep being awesome
keep making beautiful things and we will
see you in the next one bye guys
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