Saturday, September 4, 2010

mixed and matched

Well, the I Heart Art Mixer Match was a success!


photos from the etsylabs flickr site

It was held at a swank furniture/design store downtown called Design Within Reach.

We had an opportunity to practice our pitch and show our cards to sixteen local retailers. An exciting number of them expressed interest in carrying our cards!


Here, we are talking to Dillon, from the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

The whole event was pretty low-key. Based on the "speed dating" model, we had two minutes with each of the vendors to describe our cards and ourselves and to see if we could make a match. The event was sponsored by Etsy, I Heart Art, and somehow PNCA was involved, too. It was great to see so many familiar faces.

The Portland art community is fairly small, and as it turned out, we had already met many of the vendors at various boutiques, parties, and barbeques around town! (Hopefully, this will work to our advantage.)

We'll keep you posted if we get into any more stores.

Wish us luck!