The promised promo idea:

hi hi hi,
below i've posted a list of ideas i've had for promo items. even if you don't want to make any of them, hopefully they'll help you get ideas! also, don't worry about making stuff that says your shop name, or has anything to do with your shop or what you usually sell. if it's kind of close that's great, but i wouldn't stress out about it for now. just be sure to bring business cards (or something else with your name on it) to attach to them and the customers will still like getting a small gift and will check out your shop because of it. i know i always do that!

wren:)
p.s. that's a wren bird!

small promo item ideas:

• business card-size handmade envelopes, from recycled papers etc. (i've been doing this and putting business cards inside for customers, i just got a small envelope i liked and used it as a pattern)
  
• business cards (or other fun stuff) printed onto magnet sheets
• handmade or printed stickers, on sticker paper (logo/business info/other cute stuff)!
• oragami boxes or other things
  
• postcard size, or smaller, art prints
• handmade paper
• booklets etc. with etsy, or eugene etsy, street team facts
• selection of found objects/vintage items/new, used, or leftover supplies/ephemera
• sewn stuff (little animals, cell phone charms, pincushions)
• paper flowers
• mini portfolio with pictures of your work and any other info you want
  
• selection of stationary/cards/envelopes
• fold-up paper/cardboard luminary
• selection of new &/or recyled papers with hand/computer drawn oragami folding instructions
• selection of anything else with hand/computer drawn tutorial
  
• key chains/fobs
• pins/brooches
• flower/plant seeds with little note about the flower/plant
• stamped/etc. hang tags for them to use on gifts etc.

also- i've received a couple emails from one of the people organizing the upcoming spring portland etsy show. i've pasted them below so you all know what is going on- let's talk at our next meeting about participating...

[from 4/11]
It is time to get up to speed! Larissa from larrisaelaborates.etsy and I went down to the Woman's Studies Department to reserve a PSU park block for the upcoming sale.Here is what we know about the PSU site:
-Our Etsy sale will be sponsored by the Women's Studies Program. The PSU
blocks would be costing us $900 or so to rent from the city but their
sponsorship will mean that the park fee is waived allowing us to have our
sale *right next to the farmer's market* .
- The proposed dates are June 9th with the back up date being June 16th (note from wren- this second date is uo graduation).
-This site is the block just south of the farmers market.
-There is a loading zone on site and a parking garage on Harrison and
Broadway (around the corner for after we unload)
-We are slated to set up at (wait for it...) 6:30 a.m. and we can pull
down as late as 5 p.m. the farmer's market is from 8 -2 I believe
-.There is a massive information network on campus that we can use to
promote our sale because of this sponsorship.
- In return proceeds raised from table fees will go to the program "Walk
of Heroines".

What we don't know:
-Since all of this is contingent of the event coordinator approving the
event we have to wait until we hear back.
Larissa, and I did speak with him already and it seemed like a go.
-Would you please let me know if you have a pop up canopy that you will
use and if can you share?
-I would also like to know if you will be needing electricity. We may
have access to a small amount, we may not.
-I was thinking the fairest thing would be to charge ourselves by the
length of your table. If we can get you to pay $6 a foot then the fee would be more progressive.
If you want a ten footer you pay $60 if you want a 2 footer you pay $10.Please bear in mind that the money we generate will go back into advertising and whatever is left over will go to a righteous cause.
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[from 4/12]
Some of you have emailed back concerning tents. the park block we have(fingers crossed) has a giant "X:" running through it. I had to draw a little map of what the fair would look like.
So hopeful we would lash the tents together for maximum coverage having "corner stone" tents at each right angle. Make sense? Probably not but the point is that if we share tents we can all be covered.

Out of towners! Let's get you hooked up so that you can spend the night in Portland on Friday!
Would some one be interested in coordinating this?

Donation to PSU Woman's Studies - let's do a raffle, or simple have an
information table set up where we can have both Etsy info,
maybe a laptop or two (one for etsy one for PSU) brochures,promos and
said raffle...and then a collection jar for the PSU project.
Would someone like to volunteer to keep and eye on the donation/raffle?
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