Linda Warner Constantino
We are just coming off debuting Linadona Botanica™ at the Surtex Show in NYC and as we unpack our bags, we feel it was a great first experience. We received a lot of encouraging feedback from the attendees, and some strong interest from the industry press.
It was a learning experience and we left with some significant leads and valuable information to help us going forth. Pulling together the “ambiance” of our booth was challenging, but paid off by drawing in a few more visitors who just liked the feel of our presentation.
While many of the exhibitors felt the show traffic was lighter than past events, the introductions we made seem substantial and promising. The community of artists exhibiting is full of warm, generous people, some that we have met in the past and new friendships forged from the shared first time experience of putting ourselves out there under the “big top” of the Javits Center.
We had four days of running on adrenaline, you have to be well organized to set up and break down your booth. If you aren’t careful they will roll you up with the carpet when the show is over! On a parting note; a key piece of advice to other new art licensing artists – bring plenty of Command™ strips, you just can never have enough!!
Dona Warner
