Quoted from LTG:Contact Mike and see if you could get a booth, but only man it X amount of hours each day instead of all the hours.
LTG : )
It's a whole lot easier to close a booth when the entire show closes (or the vendor area closes) because you know access will be limited. If you leave while the rest of the event is up and running you really need to take everything with you that you don't want to lose. My products are small so it's easy to carry, but packing up would be somewhere between "noticeable" and "disruptive". And I already know the show doesn't like the idea because last year I unsuccessfully proposed to pack out during the banquet on Saturday and skip the late-night hours. Not complaining; they likely just thought it would be closer to "disruptive" than "noticeable". While I didn't like it, I can certainly understand the concern of a chaos created by a dozen independent vendors "doing their own thing".
I did contact the show about advertising in the program this year but never heard back so that's not happening either.
Quoted from GravitaR:I have to agree as to the vendor hours being way to long. Vendor hall has no need to be open late in the evening. Let the vendors actually enjoy the show as well. Hours 10-5, break for dinner, re-open 7-10 should be adequate.
This is exactly what made my experience at Pintastic so enjoyable in 2016 - the vendor hall hours were significantly shorter than the free-play hall hours. There's nothing wrong with copying best practices...
-Rob
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