shelldavis
Well-Known Member
Must say excel is my best show yet! Loving Kelly's stiletto nails on CND stand she is fabulous! Didn't queue tho I will be patient till Tuesday! But got lots of lovely things x
The queues wont be anything like as bad tomorrow. I wouldn't "give it a miss" if I were you! :lol: Plenty of reasons why people are prepared to queue.
Holly wasn't there this year .. but we had the fantastic Wee Fee Wallace from TEAM CND who was demoing all day and she is equally amazing. No Divas at CND .. they are ALL stupendous and very approachable and each one is as wonderful in their own individual way as another ... A very unique group and the envy of all.
As is always the case - the q yesterday for s2 at around 4pm was so small it didn't get off the stand. Some excellent offers - but I didn't take advantage.
The show in general was packed! Was awesome to see Lynne and the Calla team, Eve Taylor was manic too, and the new products from Outback Organics seemed to be flying out! For once it was nice to be at the show as a visitor and have a chance to chat with companies and people.
And it's good to see that the organisers now bundle all the stands that I think have no place at a Professionals only Trade Show in one area so they could be easily avoided.
As someone who works on the other side of exhibitions, I can say that's not really down to the organisers. They can allow for it with slightly bigger gangways but at the end of the day, it's up to the exhibitors to book the amount of space they need. If they were to 'cordon off a section' for free to accommodate traffic, they would lose a lot of money. Space rates are very high at exhibitions.As for space, when will organisers learn? Which stand generated the queues and the traffic? Sweetsquared. Not their fault. They sell great products, debut them at the show, offer great deals, are well staffed and super friendly. Hardly a surprise everyone wants to buy from them. So why isn't proper provision made by the organisers of the centre for the queues? Surely now, after so many trade shows, somebody should be thinking, "Better put an extra section aside for S2 to accomodate the traffic". This isn't the first time we've discussed S2 generating the most demand. The organisers need to learn and corden off a section to avoid blocking all the aisles.
I completely understand that, but happy shoppers equals more money spent. It just makes sense to me to keep the huge number of people who spent time in the S2 queue, happy. S2 did their best by having sweethearts going out and talking to people, giving out literature, having the maximum number of tills allowed. It's now down to the organisers to ensure that they do their bit. It's like serving drinks at a wedding while the photos are taken; you keep people happy.As someone who works on the other side of exhibitions, I can say that's not really down to the organisers. They can allow for it with slightly bigger gangways but at the end of the day, it's up to the exhibitors to book the amount of space they need. If they were to 'cordon off a section' for free to accommodate traffic, they would lose a lot of money. Space rates are very high at exhibitions.
I completely understand that, but happy shoppers equals more money spent. It just makes sense to me to keep the huge number of people who spent time in the S2 queue, happy. S2 did their best by having sweethearts going out and talking to people, giving out literature, having the maximum number of tills allowed. It's now down to the organisers to ensure that they do their bit. It's like serving drinks at a wedding while the photos are taken; you keep people happy.
Had an awesome time, managed to get everything I wanted and luckily only waited about 25 mins for the CND stand!
My lovely other half held my space for me while I wandered!
Did have a bit of an upset though... got all my bits out of my massive CND bag today and some horrid person has stolen my new additives!
Luckily my other CND stuff was right at the bottom so guessing they couldn't reach it but they've obviously just dipped their dirty hands in while I've not been looking. So p**ed off.
Iv'e been patiently saving all my pennies up had my eye on these for ages and now I'm sparkle-less
Hope nobody else had this happen.
Mini4mum are you my secret friend ??
Gigi... The queue was that long the building security actually stopped people from queuing at one point and the queue went all the was around the stand all the way down the isle out the entrance looped round and the to the end of the other entrance!!!!!! crazy!!!!!! I was handing out the show offer sheets to everyone one and trying to be nice to the security man so he would let people in the queue!!
And to top it all off ...... I don't even have the new colour
I left all my shopping bags in the hotel lobby ...yeah I know ... I'm an idiot !!
Had an awesome time, managed to get everything I wanted and luckily only waited about 25 mins for the CND stand!
My lovely other half held my space for me while I wandered!
Did have a bit of an upset though... got all my bits out of my massive CND bag today and some horrid person has stolen my new additives!
Luckily my other CND stuff was right at the bottom so guessing they couldn't reach it but they've obviously just dipped their dirty hands in while I've not been looking. So p**ed off.
Iv'e been patiently saving all my pennies up had my eye on these for ages and now I'm sparkle-less
Hope nobody else had this happen.
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