It's hard to give a big blog post today because so much has happened from the beginning of my vendor journey. I started thinking about vending sometime in March, and drew up a few designs that I planned to sell (my jfashion sticker line). I also had my first pack of stickers delivered, a set of transparent clear sticker sheets. A set of
fifty, which was the MOQ at the time. I don't know how I'm gonna sell all these, considering the now-typical amount for me is 5 of each product... But soon after that, my schoolwork got in the way and I quickly forgot about it.
A couple of days after a severe mental health episode, my university was running a small convention. My friend suggested that we table there next year, and that got the ball rolling again. But I don't think that my poor friend anticipated the monster that that one suggestion had awoken inside of me. A few weeks, a few spreadsheets, and a few important government forms filled later, I booked us (my friend, my other friend and i) for one of the largest conventions in our city. Oops...?
The convention we'll be working at will be the first big convention I'd ever been to. Which I suppose isn't a huge accomplishment, considering my total number of convention visits happens to be 4...
I've invested a LOT of money into this, and I don't expect to break even during my first time! My main goal is to pay back the money loaned to me, and the rest will be invested back into the business. However, I will allow myself to use my money to buy One anime figure from the exhibitor space while there...
Without further ado, here are a list of the things I've done so far.
- applied for an australian business number (and got one!)
- set up my business instagram and a business website
- created a mascot
- designed my business cards
- applied for marketplace insurance (and got it! had to pay a pretty penny for it, though...)
- designed signage for my display
- ordered sign clips, storage organiser cubes, sticker display and a craft knife set
- ordered heat sealable mylar bags in the wrong size and had to scramble to design new stickers
- heat sealed utdr stickers in their mylar bags
- ordered mylar bags in a larger size
- distributed money into printer budget for school library's printer
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merch designed :
- j-fashion stickers (x17)
- umamusume keychains (x20)
- spamton hairclip
- teto print
- kruselle magnetic charms
- fnf print
- heisei retro sticker sheet
- femslash heart badges (x4)
- trinket print
- undertale/deltarune stickers (x20)
- pink bxxch club print (
- 2014 nostalgia sticker sheet
- lenticular ddlc photocards (x4)
- butch dog and femme cat
- togore sticker
- super sonico gloomy bear
- splatoon charms (x5)
- emo pony lanyard
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manufactured ( outsourced to vograce ) :
- j-fashion stickers = 170 (17x10)
- spamton hair clip = 20
- umamusume keychains = 100 (20x5)
- femslash heart badges = 20 (4x5)
- undertale/deltarune stickers = 200 (10x20)