Hello everyone,
So this is our first post. We have a lot more things to write about, but let's start with our most recent adventure, Roseville Downtown Tuesday Nights (the Farmer's Market in Old Town Roseville on Vernon). Some of you may or may not have heard of it. I had not heard of it until last year.
For those of you who DON'T know us, I am a graphic designer, Heather Brown Ostrom, and my husband, Steve Ostrom, is a Realtor with Coldwell Banker. We work together as the RosevilleAndRocklin.com Team.
This was our first time (market virgins) to the Roseville Downtown Tuesday Nights. We were a wee bit excited, to say the least, and had no expectations. We did know, no matter what, we were going to enjoy ourselves.
So we loaded up our truck and headed over at 4pm, and set up our 10x10 booth tent. I was a little anxious (not to talk of course), but we had never set up a booth before, nor had Steve O. Steve wasn't nervous, so he calmed me down. Of course someone was in our vendor spot, par for the course for a day in the life of Heather (Brown) Ostrom, but the guy was awesome and gladly moved. Since that was the only mini-glitch, we were in GREAT SHAPE in my book.
It came all together thankfully; we got the tent up in one piece (thank you Rob) and it all looked amazing. I was very pleased that our mad dash the week previous, had paid off. Everything looked polished and presentable.
It was pretty darn hot on that asphalt for the first couple of hours, but once the sun went down, it was awesome weather.
Well not that you care, but we presented our new theme, "Make the Jump with Us." (see my little animation above???)
So we decided, well I did, that we had to present ourselves with a strong cohesive presentation. I ordered the banner (thank you SignsPlus), had matching (extra-long) embroidered shirts made (thank you Sew Cal), found pre-packaged goldfishes and Steve and I stapled 72 business cards into the bags. We were ready to go, laptop, flyers, all the real estate and marketing info any person could dream of ... Did we give out much, not really. But we had a GREAT time meeting people and chatting. The goldfish were naturally gone quite quickly and we had to ration towards the end.
We hoped our previous goldfish would become engrained in a parent's brain for a nano-second before it hit the trashcan. "Whar dat say, 'Make the Jump with Us?' Whar in Tar-HooTies does that Mean?!?! I dunnawanna jump. Crazy Realtors."
Of course, if we were REALLY lucky, the cheesy wrapper (with our attached business card) would lay on the bottom of a car floor eagerly waiting a tip of the wrapper to release it's crackery venom on the bottom of an innocent parent's car.
Most people don't know, but all mom's know (and clean crazy dads) that to clean up goldfish crackers in a car, is near impossible. Our goldfish will be the gift that keeps on giving. That's right, the RosevilleAndRocklin.com Team will be with you FOReVer in the form of an orange crumb (more like 1000+ crumbs). Enough said.
Well after we were done with goldfish distribution, meeting great people and closing shop we had many solid leads, made a lot of new acquaintances with people who came up and also with other vendors and business owners. IT was a great night.
I ALMOST got the group to our right to centipede for me on the ground, but it didn't pan out. They did offer to spin on their backs for me if had some cardboard, but I said it was centipede or nothing (they were awesome and if you are looking for a softball league ... they are the ones to call). I can remember every word of their DVD, but that is all.
Well here is a pic of our booth.
If you actually read this all, you must be a friend or family member.
Did I mention Pickup Stix was there? That alone made the trip FAN-Tastic!
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