farmers market sales
 

A few months ago I started selling fertilizers, plants, tools, and books at local farmers markets. The weather has been holding up here, mostly in the 70's during the morning and mid-day. Here's a picture of my double-wide stall in Leucadia CA today:

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Nice!
I need to make Bananas.org stickers for you to give away with banana-related sales :)

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Jarred - I'm a professional graphic designer; would you like some Bananas.org stickers designed? It would be a hoot!

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Sure! I'd also put them directly on the potted pups.

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Good-looking booth, Richard, I hope you're doing well.

Harvey

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Looks nice Richard. How have sales been?

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What a stand! :)
You could also advertise on your pots...just an idea, if people don't want the stickers on their pups. Then when they get rid of their pots...the next person just HAS to see it...

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Thanks Mitchell! I'm grossing the equivalent of 30 hours a week at a retail job. The customer loyalty has been very high, so the business keeps growing!

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Way to go!

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Here goes! Bananas.org sticker beta. What do y'all think?

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Awsome!!

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Good Job lorax!

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lorax, That looks fantastic, Good Job :bananas_b

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I will gladly give those away at my farmer's market booth as well!

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Lorax, could the ".org" somehow be more pronounced? Otherwise it is an excellent piece of work!

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Sure can! The smaller "B" is also bothering me... I'll make the mods tonight and you'll have a new version in the morning.

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Looks good... but I count 6 colors, yes? Yikes!
Example of sizes and color guidelines:
Contagious Graphics White Vinyl Sticker Pricing
That would probably run something like $1,000 for 1 or 2 thousand stickers.
That's why I never got stickers of our logo yet... too expensive to do it nicely!
Do we have a member here with a sticker factory, lol?



(edit, I now see seven distinct colors!)

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No, but it is much cheaper to print here in Ecuador, so I generally end up designing in full colour.... 1,000 six-colour stickers here is about $100 USD.

The other thing I could do is simplify to 3-colour. I'll start a new thread tomorrow for those.

Actually, Jarred, if you tell me which font you used to do the logo it will make life much easier for me - for that beta I separated each letter of the logo in Photoshop, saved them as transparent-backed GIFs, and placed them into the Illustrator file that contains the nanners and other text. If I had the font, I would have complete control over the colour without any excess hassle, and I wouldn't have to switch between raster and vector.

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PM on its way

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Jarred- For many years I had a sign and silk-screen business. I got rid of my big electric press, but I still have some hand operated screens. We could certainly produce some stickers, especially if we could tweak the design a little, and cut down on the number of colors. When I had the business, we did mostly real estate, traffic, and political signs. Here is an old picture that I found:
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The ones in the picture are 2 x 3 feet, and use 3 colors. The red letters have ¼ black borders. At one point, some customers asked for stickers, to put over the, "FOR SALE" section, like, "SOLD", or, "FOR RENT", etc. I found a place that had sheets of pressure sensitive vinyl, and they would score the peel-off backing, wherever I wanted it. One time, when I went there to pick up stock, they asked me if I could do stickers for gas pumps, for Sinclair Oil Co. (I think now defunct, or taken over) I ended up making several thousands of those, with their little dinosaur logo.
Now it depends on what size these stickers we are talking about. If they are six inches, or more, long they would probably best be done silk-screen, on vinyl. However, if they are only an inch or two, they could probably be done on polyester (aka mylar) with a color laser printer.