WOW, Did not mean to open a can of worms. The two ARA shows we did were very good to us, In fact I have in house re order # 10 for 2200 two color ovals. A total of about 35K badges to date for a new customer we met at ARA. My only beef with ARA EVER was NasCar weekend. I even went to the show last year, and might go again this. Who knows. ( to look that is, I'm not standing there for three days ever again!)
Now keep in mind I'm a manufacture, and with the invent of dye sub (Yuck! for badges anyway) Our wholesale business dropped off to a point we needed to refind our niche.
Early on Sage was great to us picked up our info at ARA and posted it at there site. We still hold a Sage #.
Next we did the PPAI show for two years when they moved the show to Vegas, Again a lot of work and a lot of Franklins. And a few great jobs and many new customers.
BUT FAR AND AWAY. with out doing ANY ASI shows having our product listed on ESP is were it's at. (esp is asi)
Im not sure if any of this rambling helps you questions or not, I'm being distracted by the Mets/Stl at the moment. |