She still helped out. Now it’s
like I can’t do all that plus
the tattooing. So she’s pretty
much taken that part of it. I
still deal with the health de-
partment and help with the
floor plan and do a lot of the
things that deal with the con-
vention center. I deal with
the hotels and motels for the
guests. So we all have our
little tasks that we do. Troy’s
the marketing guy and the
printer and does all the me-
dia stuff.
My wife does all of the record keeping, bookkeeping and all the reserva-
tions for the booths, taking the payments, and the money aspect. It’s a
lot for one person to do. It’s a year round job because the first of the year
we’re coming up on our next show. Even though it may be eight months
away, a lot of the artists and vendors are doing so many shows a year that
they can’t just plan a month out. When the new year comes they’re like
what shows are we doing this year? You start sending them out in Janu-
ary. We’ll have maybe, right after the show ends in August, two or three
weeks of tightening up loose ends; paying all of the bills and settling up all
of the things that we’ve done. It’s like no one’s thinking about that show
because it just ended.
From September to December there’s really not much happening. But
January first all of the mailers are going out, so we get maybe a three
month break. Every year we learn, maybe we should do this or maybe
we should do that. What we’ve experienced is a lot of the guys who have
done it automatically assume that we know they’re coming back again.
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