Resin2Go

Hi everyone, After taking a week of break, we will be back once again this Saturday for the Holiday Season. Come check us out at the Normandy Craft Fair this Saturday, Dec 3rd, from 10AM-4PM.

Hi everyone, as you all know, we are a new small business doing well at local arts and crafts shows, holiday events, and at the farmers markets. A few months ago, we learnt about the Christmas Connection show and were encouraged to apply. After seeing the marketing of event, we as a handmade business thought this was ideal for us and decided to be a vendor there this year. While we want to say that we were very much looking forward to being at the Cleveland Christmas Connection Show at the I-X center this year and poured our heart and soul into it, the event didn’t turn out as expected. We experienced a huge failure and loss.

First of all, we were told this Christmas Connection is a strictly handcrafted products only event and that they would extremely carefully vet vendors, but when we got to the event, we saw a lot of China made wholesalers, manufacturers, national brands, Sam’s club, mattress companies, massage chairs, cutlery, kitchen ware, etc that we had to compete against.

Prior to the event, we were told to ramp up our inventory as there will be 1000 people walking per hour in front of our booth and that this is not a neighborhood church event and to scale up. In reality, there weren’t even 100-150 people each hour. There wasn’t anyone in the VIP hours. It takes 2.5 hours to go through first main hall at the entrance. The VIP hours were from 8am to 10am and we had no shoppers or sales in our area. We spent the last few months making tons and tons of inventory worrying that we will be running out but the sales were negligible.

A few of us vendors were placed in a newly expanded hall which we were not aware was a new addition. The event attendees were not aware that there was a completely new hall addition and were thrown off by changes to floor plan. Many didn’t come to the expanded hall at all. The crafters were just a second thought to the event organizers who were driven by profit and for maximizing their revenue. They didn’t plan event logistics, parking, traffic flow in the halls and booths, etc. This made this expanded event a nightmare for us vendors in our area. There was only one opened entrance to the show at the East side of the building (main hall) and there were food courts between the main hall and expanded hall, with exit along the food courts. If people did come to the West entrance closer to the expanded hall, they made them wait in cold and shuttled them to the east entrance. They didn’t open the West gate until later the second day. Most people spent 2.5 hours walking through the booths in the main hall, stopped for eating at the concession stand and left the show before they ever got to our expanded hall and the few that made it to our hall were passing by at that point without making any purchases. Many vendors in our hall didn’t get many sales to recover event fees similar to us.

The event charged us $739 for a 10’x10’ middle booth, plus a $100 more for the new exhibitor marketing package (required) that included two paper signs that we can display at our booth and another $59 for new exhibitor listing (required). Their slogan was “Remember, you are a new exhibitor just once”. Their bare minimum marketing efforts that cost us another $100 was not helpful as it did not do anything to encourage sales.
We were required to arrange a carpet 10’x10’ to cover every inch of our floor. While we followed the rules, spent extra money purchasing the carpet of the right size, there were many vendors without any carpet including the manufacturers, buy and sell and wholesalers. The organizers charged $300-500 plus for carpet/ flooring rental plus cleaning fee. The parking was $10 each day for a regular vehicle even for the vendors parking. Vendors also had to pay $50 for two one way drive-in passes to load your vehicle and drive-in to drop off items in front of your booth. Electricity was another $200 if you were a vendor using a POS system.

There were WiFi blockers that prevented anyone from using their own WiFi. Even those vendors who purchased by spending $300 for exhibitor WiFi couldn’t process their payments. The event was charging vendors and general public $80 per day for accessing internet as none of their WiFi or signal was working to even send any text messages.

The only good part that came out of this event is that we vendors learnt that is is extremely important to know the bad shows even if you aren’t aware of the good ones, so you don’t get burnt. We also made numerous friends with other vendors who shared and supported us through such a disappointing event. We are sharing our experience in the hopes that someone else can learn from it. Thank you.

We are excited to announce the raffle winners. The 2022 Christmas Connection Resin2Go's Raffle winners are:

1st PRIZE: Cary Sims
2nd PRIZE: Lemonia V Kowalski
3rd PRIZE: Amma's Sumana & &

1st and 2nd Prize Raffle Winners --> Please share with us your email so that we can email Christmas connection tickets to you.

The rest of the prizes must be collected at the booth. Please message us on which day you plan to be at the I-X center to collect them. Thank you and we can't wait to see you at our booth.

Swipe to the right to check our popular Teddy Magnets! They will be available for sale at the I-X center in a multitude of colors on Nov 18th, 19th, and 20th as well as online! 10 magnets for $50. Can’t beat this deal. Limited time offer. Website link in bio.

Christmas connection at I-X center is around the corner in a few days. Resin2Go is doing a raffle giveaway where you have a chance to win complementary tickets to this largest show and win some of our beautiful products. See details in the post's images! Follow us on facebook or instagram (extra raffle entry if you follow on both Facebook and instagram). Subscribe to our website and Tag as many friends as you like and use hashtag . Every additional tag is considered an extra entry for the raffle.

Our first rodeo at the Haymaker’s market in downtown Kent and we had a nice 👌 turnout. Thank you Haymaker Farmers' Market for having us today. We really enjoyed being there today.

Resin2Go on Instagram: "Today we’re in Kent, OH for the Haymaker Farmer’s Market! Come check out our new holiday ornaments, coasters, and magnets! #haymakerfarmersmarket #falldecor #halloweenornaments #resinart #resinartwork #kentohio" Resin2Go shared a post on Instagram: "Today we’re in Kent, OH for the Haymaker Farmer’s Market! Come check out our new holiday ornaments, coasters, and magnets! ". Follow their account to see 77 posts.

Thank you Haymaker Farmers' Market for the feature. We are so excited to be there and can’t wait to share our resin art in Downtown Kent 😃 this Saturday.

Everyone 👉 mark your calendars Saturday, Sept 24th 9:00am - 1:00pm for this amazing Art in the Market event at Kent, OH. Stay tuned for updates and there is an Oktoberfest happening that afternoon! Coming in the morning to downtown Kent and enjoy 2 fun events in one trip 😊!

Nothing like we have ever seen 😍❤️

Resin2Go on Instagram: "Thank you @thewestsideflea for the wonderful Saturday this weekend filled with Arts & Crafts vendors and patrons. We very much enjoyed being a part of this crafts festival and can’t wait to be back! . . . #westsideflea... Resin2Go shared a post on Instagram: "Thank you for the wonderful Saturday this weekend filled with Arts & Crafts vendors and patrons. We very much enjoyed being a part of this crafts festival and can’t wait to be back! . . . ...

Look who stopped by our booth today in style 😎🤩 you can too! We’re at the Westside Flea from 9 AM - 3 PM today!

These are our new Purple and silver coasters! Be the first to check them out. Swipe to the right. Order link in bio!

They say green is good💚🤑☘️🌿🌴🌲. Here is a splash of green for lovers of green. Is this your favorite color?

Have you ever lost someone special that it was so hard to move on? This art coaster makes a thoughtful gift to someone special who lost a loved one ❤️.

Beautiful purple and silver coaster, handcrafted with love ❤️! Order yours at www.resin2go.com

Hey everyone, Resin2Go will be in farmers market again in two weeks from now! We are coming up with exclusive products for our customers at the farmers market🤗!

Stay tuned to hear more product updates and we can’t wait to share our creations with you ❤️!

***Free giveaway!***
Follow these simple steps now and get a chance to win beautiful unique coasters.
3 raffle winners will be announced August 31st.
Must be in USA!
https://amze.me/xDFJY
Thank you 🙂

Subscribe to email list, follow on IG for chance to win Subscribe to our newsletters for your chance to win! Refer friends as well to increase your chance of winning.

***Free giveaway!***
Follow these simple steps now and get a chance to win beautiful unique coasters.
3 raffle winners will be announced August 31st.
Must be in USA!
https://amze.me/xDFJY
Thank you :)

Subscribe to email list, follow on IG for chance to win Subscribe to our newsletters for your chance to win! Refer friends as well to increase your chance of winning.

Hi Everyone,

Since we are a new business creating beautiful resin art products, we will be doing a free giveaway to help promote our business!
Details are here: https://amze.me/xDFJY
Entries close on August 31st. 3 winners will be chosen randomly and announced. Be sure to share us and follow to get additional bonus entries to win amazing coasters from our website.

Available at Shaker Square this weekend - Saturday 8 AM - 12 PM. Don’t forget to stop by our booth

Okay, here are our 4 new beautiful coaster creations. Hit a like 👍 and follow and help a small business grow 🥰👩‍💼❤️🎢 💜! We will be selling these at Shaker Square this coming Saturday 8-12PM. Keep on the lookout for

Come check out these beautiful heart art coasters. Tell us which is your favorite color and why

Midnight Galaxy themed coasters are intended to give a mystic feel with their starry night appearance. This is one of our popular selling pieces. This coaster has a splash of gorgeous mystical magenta. What other themes and colors would you like to see next?

Handcrafted and made in USA.
See our entire collection at: www.resin2go.com

I am a small business owner creating resin art and resin products. These are handmade with love and will be on sale soon. Follow on FB and IG now to see more of upcoming art and products that will be up for sale ❤️🤗🎊.