Just got back from a nice little 12-hour day at first day of the last (hooray!) tradeshow of the year. All in all the first day was pretty successful. We had a bunch of people come by and pick up material which is typical for the first day and hopefully we'll have a good attrition rate and a fair number of those folks returning over the next two days to place actual orders. We also had a decent amount of new retailers place orders today and a good number of folks come up to us and say "oh, I've heard of you before" which is validating.
Most exciting however was probably the first person who stopped by our booth this morning. Without giving away too much information, it was from a large chain retailer (though not as large as a Target or the like) specific to this industry and even more specific to my niche. I honestly thought that they produced everything inhouse but in the last year the company was bought and new management took over. It was the CEO who stopped by our booth this morning and seemed sincerely interested in potentially bringing our product into some of their stores. It may, as I've found, come to nothing at the end of the day but it's always exciting to have that as an option. Always good to have options, right?
But at the same time I'm tired, been traveling far too long, and have those moments that I'd be willing to sell the company to the first person who asked. Thankfully they are only brief moments and I've so far managed to regain sanity before anyone comes looking to buy.
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