Marketplace at Gold Canyon

Today we had our Marketplace at Gold Canyon. Usually we hold this event every other Saturday, but since next Saturday is the day after Christmas, we opted to move the Marketplace to today so we can help any last-minute shoppers. The weather today was absolutely wonderful, it got up to the low 70's, with bright sunshine. If you were sitting in the sun, it felt like it was much warmer than 70 degrees.

The Marketplace at Gold Canyon is a collection of small business owners that come out and display their products and services for the local community. It is an awesome way to let others know that you are in business and to see first-hand what you have to offer. It also offers a wonderful opportunity to network with other small business owners. Once you start to learn who else is in business and what they have to offer, you are able to better serve your customer base. Sometimes a customer may come to you looking for an item that you don't have, but if you happen to know who does offer what the customer wants, you will find that customer will come back to you in the future. You not only become a source of products and services, but of information for the customer.

Today we had about 20 small businesses represented today at the Marketplace. The better aspect was all the people wandering around looking at what we had to offer. The people wandering around seemed to really enjoy the offerings, and it looked like quite a few sales were made. It is always difficult to have a consistently successful event that runs every other week, and it becomes even more difficult when the dates change due to the way some holidays fall. This time, we were extremely blessed to have such a positive turn-out on what would have been an "off" day for the Marketplace.

Next year (it sounds really bad, but Next Year is only 2 weeks away) we are not entirely sure when the Marketplace will take place, but we at Hawgwash have begun to schedule another event on the "off" weekends of the Marketplace so that the small businesses out there will have another venue in which to show people what they have to offer. We are not going to have any event occur on January 2nd ( which would be 2 weeks from today) mainly because we figure that the majority of people will be "shopped out" and not willing to go to any stores. We think we will hold the event on the next Saturday, January 9th, and will keep everyone posted at that time.

Tomorrow I will be providing you my weekly weight loss update. Until then...