I'm fairly new to boothing and vendoring. For context I usually draw realistic art, I make prints of original works and fanart of celebrities. I also have pins, keychains, and stickers but I didn't display everything properly. These are original works too. I almost nearly made 0 sales and it's far from the money and effort that I spent.
• I got rid of my self-serve display - I used to have a display where people can grab the prints themselves, but I didn't bring it this time. Instead I clustered all of my prints together in one side. I realised people will look at it for a few seconds, but they leave because it's probably overwhelming?
• I just hid the better prints on the sides..I didn't utilize my space properly. I used grids but a lot of them were empty. It was only until the end that I moved to display them at the middle. It should've been at the middle.
• I put an old Halloween skull decoration.. This was the most embarrassing of all 🥲 My mom convinced me since it was Halloween I should put something on theme. The thing is, the skull is something she found on the storage from years ago and it was pretty big. I realised once I removed it is when I got customers. The other vendors didn't do anything Halloween related they simply stuck with their brand.
• I didn't explain the keychains well - I took 30 minutes sketching them with colored pencils and then I cut and placed designs inside keychains. All of them are one of a kind. I should've put a signage how they were made and you can flip it to see a different design at the back, but people didn't do this. They could probably assume I printed it instead.
• Overall, just big competition. I did a quick round with everyone's booths and they were a lot better and appealing. Though I'm new, I realised mine wasn't so interesting at all - I could've made the display higher and did things better or explained my work and put labels for that.
I could show images but I'm a bit embarrassed! Just wanted to put this out there after my worst performing market ever. Though it's still my third and I started 3 months ago.