Fall Ren Faire!
I volunteered last night to Autocrat for Fall Ren Faire here in Wichita. Lord Tancred graciously said he would help me to get things squared away and such. I am both nervous and excited because it will be the first thing I have autocratted and a nice training run for when I want to do an event.
I would like to see us do a couple of revenue streams that have had a good ROI in the past such as hair braiding, photo booth, heraldry, and Archery which looked to be doing atleast some revenue. I don’t believe the renfaire (Eagles Realm) will allow us to sell anything and we must therefore expand and advertise what we do have available. I think that with proper advertising we could have a nice stream of revenue come from the faire and have good returns this go round.
I would also like to put out some donation boxes around the list field, wooden boxes that say Donations on them and hang close to the list field on all 4 sides. I don’t know that this would bring in any revenue, but I think it might and would be willing to make the boxes myself.
I think with a good team and the cooperation of everyone, we could have a fine faire and try to bring a bit of income in.
I also think that the Chatelaine should be beating the bricks and really working to bring in new folks. I believe we need more then one or two people because generally people will get bored and walk away because no one has come and talk to them. The Chatelaines/Hospitallers, should give an aire of excitedment and believe what they are telling people, it shows.
I am looking for more ideas and as time goes on I will be posting more and more about this to maintain my sanity I am sure.
