Rich Komar
Rich Komar
advertise directly event goal months nice nine people phones profits properly takes together word work
They know the profits from the show go back directly to the kids. It takes nine months to put a show together and we work hard. We work the phones and try to get word out. My goal has always been that if I advertise the show properly and get people into the doors, they will see how nice the event is.
basically gave grew kindness phone popular spaces
We've come a long way in 13 years. It's kind of overwhelming how popular this show got. When I started this, I basically went out and gave spaces away. It grew through word-of-mouth and some phone calls.
built catch kids literally pond school trout
I've had a trout pond set up in the school for 10 years. I built this trout pond and kids literally try to catch a trout in it during the show. It's pretty neat.
apiece booth filled huge local maybe mostly sold spaces year
I wouldn't say our first year was a huge success, but it went all right. I sold all my booth spaces for $5 apiece and we filled up one gymnasium. We had maybe 30 or 40 exhibitors that year, who were mostly local retailers.