Nathan Miller on fri 4 aug 06
My wife and I have been selling our work for about a year and a half now and
have been plagued by clay-o-phobic price tags. That is, we have a lot of
trouble with them falling off the bottoms of our pots. Does anyone else
have trouble with this? Is there a trick to getting them to stay? Or is it
something we'll have to endure? We'd pretty much given up, but we're also
pretty sure we're losing a not inconsequential amount of sales because we
don't have price tags on our ware. Is this a battle we can win, or one
we'll just have to fight?
Nathan Miller
Thistillium Pottery
Newberg, OR
Gene & Dolita Dohrman on fri 4 aug 06
I have the perfect solution for you....white electrical tape. Any hardware
store will have it. The beauty of it is that it sticks to the pot, is
easily removed, and can be re-stuck to something else, such as paper. We
use it all the time. When we have sales, we remove the sticker and attach
it to the person's sales sheet. Works every time. Use a fine permanent
marker or ball point pen. I pull a length out and stick it on a plastic
surface. Do a bunch of pricing on it first, then cut each one with
scissors. Stick it on the pot. No worries.
Dolita
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Subject: Making price tags stick
> My wife and I have been selling our work for about a year and a half now
and
> have been plagued by clay-o-phobic price tags. That is, we have a lot of
> trouble with them falling off the bottoms of our pots. Does anyone else
> have trouble with this? Is there a trick to getting them to stay? Or is
it
> something we'll have to endure? We'd pretty much given up, but we're also
> pretty sure we're losing a not inconsequential amount of sales because we
> don't have price tags on our ware. Is this a battle we can win, or one
> we'll just have to fight?
>
> Nathan Miller
> Thistillium Pottery
> Newberg, OR
>
>
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Victoria E. Hamilton on fri 4 aug 06
Nathan -
I do 2 things - if the piece is such that I can hang a tag on it, I do that.
If not, I use a brand called MACO (I think that's how it's spelled). They
stick pretty well.
Good luck.
Vicki Hamilton
Millennia Antica Pottery
Seattle, WA
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From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Nathan Miller
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 08:11
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Making price tags stick
My wife and I have been selling our work for about a year and a half now and
have been plagued by clay-o-phobic price tags. That is, we have a lot of
trouble with them falling off the bottoms of our pots. Does anyone else
have trouble with this? Is there a trick to getting them to stay? Or is it
something we'll have to endure? We'd pretty much given up, but we're also
pretty sure we're losing a not inconsequential amount of sales because we
don't have price tags on our ware. Is this a battle we can win, or one
we'll just have to fight?
Nathan Miller
Thistillium Pottery
Newberg, OR
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Overall's on fri 4 aug 06
Nathan,
Regular stickers from the office supply will stay on
pots (glazed and unglazed surfaces) if you put a small
piece of Scotch magic tape over it.
Avery mailing labels cut up make great price stickers
but getting them off is the problem. That glue STICKS
and is too much trouble to clean off. Especially if
it's a gift you have to wrap and other customers are
waiting.
Recommendation: transparent tape over itty bitty
stickers.
Kim in Houston
--- Nathan Miller wrote:
> My wife and I have been selling our work for about a
> year and a half now and
> have been plagued by clay-o-phobic price tags. That
> is, we have a lot of
> trouble with them falling off the bottoms of our
> pots. Does anyone else
> have trouble with this? Is there a trick to getting
> them to stay? Or is it
> something we'll have to endure? We'd pretty much
> given up, but we're also
> pretty sure we're losing a not inconsequential
> amount of sales because we
> don't have price tags on our ware. Is this a battle
> we can win, or one
> we'll just have to fight?
>
> Nathan Miller
> Thistillium Pottery
> Newberg, OR
>
>
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>
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> reached at melpots@pclink.com.
>
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Jennifer Boyer on sat 5 aug 06
This subject brings up a basic decision we all have to make: does the
sticker go on the bottom or not?
I'm talking about smaller pots here: if a pot is in an exhibition of
higher end work it probably has it's own pedestal and the price can
be on that or in a list at the gallery desk.
But for just regular pots, my question is why put the sticker on the
bottom? It's much harder to make sticker hold on to raw clay, but my
question is what are you gaining by putting the sticker on the bottom
anyway?
In our gallery (120 exhibitors) we have a philosophy that the
customer shouldn't have to pick up a pot or any object to find out
how much it is. If they have to guess, feeling a bit awkward about
touching a piece and turning it over(many galleries have "do not
touch policies so they may assume you do to) they MAY guess that it's
too expensive.
Is it so important that the pot look sticker free if it may prevent a
sale?
Customer thought process maybe:
I wonder how much this pot is?
The clerk may get mad if I turn it over......
I'm carrying too many of my own bags to get both hands free...
Since I like it so much I bet it costs more than I can afford.....
The clerk is busy so I shouldn't interrupt her to get help......
Guess I'll go. Too bad I can't afford it.......
Just my humble opinion.
Jennifer, off to spend a GORGEOUS Vermont day doing a managerial
shift at said gallery.... boohoo says the kayak sitting on the garage!
*****************************
Jennifer Boyer
Thistle Hill Pottery
Montpelier, VT
http://thistlehillpottery.com
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W J Seidl on sat 5 aug 06
Oh, now don't tell me that there has been THAT much rain up there!
Surely you jest!
I can think of easier things to do than putting a kayak on my shoulders =
from
a ladder! Say "hey" to the pups for me.
Best,
Wayne
snip
Jennifer, off to spend a GORGEOUS Vermont day doing a managerial
shift at said gallery.... boohoo says the kayak sitting on the garage!
Lee Love on sun 6 aug 06
On 8/5/06, Jennifer Boyer wrote:
> The clerk may get mad if I turn it over......
Put a sign up and let people know they SHOULD touch the pots. I am
usually not interested in the price of a pot until I touch it.
--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
http://potters.blogspot.com/
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
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