| How to Sell Stuff at an Event Contributor(s): Biel, Joe (Author) |
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ISBN: 1621061582 ISBN-13: 9781621061588 Publisher: Microcosm Publishing OUR PRICE: $4.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Sales & Selling - General |
| Series: Good Life |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.30 lbs) 32 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: So you've got a business where you make stuff--zines, books, crafts, art, widgets. Whatever it is, you're super passionate about it, and you've been thinking about tabling at events There's an art and science to vending, explained here by a Joe Biel, who 25 years ago began packing zines into milk crates and hauling them to the punk club to excitedly sell and trade. Covered here are topics like choosing your event, figuring out what to bring, managing travel logistics with all your stuff, setting up an appealing display, comporting yourself with potential customers and other vendors, and more |
Contributor Bio(s): Biel, Joe: - Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing and co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Art of Autism, Utne Reader, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business on the Spectrum, Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior, Make a Zine, The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting, Proud to be Retarded, Bicycle Culture Rising, and more. He is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & A T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy described Biel as "not trained in pedagogy." He lives in Portland, Ore and his work can be found at joebiel.net |