PP Steps Up!

Last Saturday. May 1st, was the first day that our company, Petal Pushers, was selling at the farmers market in Idaho Falls. It was also the windiest day on record in a long time. I mean like really windy. Like knock people over windy. It was so bad!

It was chilly too, and all of us froze. There also wasn't a huge turn out. I mean, if I didn't need to be there, I would be inside too! We only managed to sell two flowers. $10 profit, that ended up not being a profit because we had to pay the market manager people $10 for something. So we basically paid them so we could freeze and be miserable all day.

The set up

The people that were there loved our flowers. They just didn't love them enough to buy them. "Oh, they're so pretty!' "Look at that one mom!" "These are so different than the others we've seen today!" We also got a lot of parents dragging away their daughters that had fallen in love with one of our buds. Those were the ones we were the most sad about. Their eyes would light up, their hands would reach, and then their heads jerked as their mom tugged them onward.

Stacy suggested we make a sign to hang in front of our booth that says,

"Compliments don't fly,
you have to buy"

I like it. Despite the high general suckiness of the day, we had some good moments together, and are making friends with the people in the booths around us.

We actually turned a profit this week. $34!! That's about 7 flowers. Logically we know that it takes a little while to get established and for people to know that we're out there and for business to pick up, but we just want everyone to have a flower now. We built it, and now they need to come!