Vegas Rundown

I've got to keep this relatively quick as I'm in the Las Vegas airport waiting for my flight to board which ought to happen momentarily. Very excited to get home!

The show itself ended yesterday and all in all I think it was a pretty successful show. We ended up essentially covering booth costs via the orders that were written at the show but from vendors I've talked to who have been at the show in past years all say that they get many more orders post-show from retailers who were there. Our first day was actually stupendous and I barely had a moment to breath. We wrote more orders that day then we have on any other day at any other show and handed out so many brochures I worried that we'd run out.

However, the second and third days were a little slower with not quite as many orders written which is too bad as otherwise we'd have been on track for a new record. I do need to go back through my records though as we may have hit a record with the sales from this show (I can't quite tell if we did better at this show then we did at San Francisco in February). Given how many brochures we handed out though - and we only handed them out to people who specifically asked and showed interest - I'm hoping that we'll get a lot of followup orders that will make this the most successful show to date.

Interestly there weren't any sales reps walking the floor - or at least none that I saw - so I wasn't able to get contacts for sales reps which had been one of my goals at this show. If I remember correctly, the show I'm going to in October did have reps last year so hopefully that will be the case again this year.

Well, they're calling my flight so I ought to shut down. I'm definitely ready to get home!