What I learned this weekend
1. Some things from IKEA require power tools…even though they’d never say that (or rather offer pictures) with such a message.
2. My friend Kelly is very brave!!!
3. Austin is a beautiful, richly cultural city…I think I could be here for years and still not see it all.
4. I had not had Mexican food before. Not like that.
5. Clif bars are now going to be a staple in my life. Especially the mountain mix one. MMMMMMMMM.
6. I’m now going to have to come to Austin to get my hair cut and my bangs trimmed. If you’re from Austin, I have all of his information – send me an email; he is AWESOME and super friendly, able to train you how to do what he does.
7. Different booths will have different things/tools/techniques they are using to draw you in – some are creative, some are well founded and some just crash and burn. But if people are noticing, then it’s a damn fine job done.
8. I [heart] business cards…my first ones!!
9. I *really* wouldn’t be sad to never see snow again (though I might change my mind if I were in this climate during, say, July).
10. There is a SONG about jeans. Well, not quite about jeans; actually shirts really get the spotlight. But jeans get a verse.
Just one song? I have a whole playlist about jeans…
And the best way to get people to notice your booth is FRESH BAKED WARM COOKIES… they can be noticed from a long ways away, and aren’t competing with the noises coming from all the other booths.
I checked FIQL – where’s the playlist? Inquiring minds *need* to know…. ;^)
Yes, Fresh Baked Warm Cookies was definitely a plan that DID NOT fail…mmmmmmmm, CD Baby better be keeping that oven – We will have to picket if they try to take it away. I vote for you chaining yourself to it.
I’d rather chain myself to the cooler full of cookie dough… less likely to burn myself, and I can hold out without (extra) food for a long, long time.