The Most Expensive Booth Fee I've Paid For... Here's What I Learned.

Episode 8 of the weekly side quest series, where I dropped over $1,800 to vend at CSU Long Beach's campus, outside of their bookstore, amongst a few other vendors. While the booth fee itself costed me only $600, a fairly reasonable price, the insurance coverage I was required to submit was an unholy $1,175. Yes, maybe I could have negotiated for a better price with the carrier or agent I called, but booking this event was a little last minute and rather urgent. You see, Long Beach's campus is undergoing construction in the coming years, which means their vendor program would no longer be in place for the foreseeable future. With only a few weeks counting down before the end of the school year, my still somewhat strong presence in the college space, and a handful of shark enamel pins I recently got shipped, I pretty much HAD to capitalize on the final opportunity to vend here for a week, and see if the risk was worth it.

Welcome back to the channel Zookies! Thank you for tuning in to another weekly episode. We are closing in on the end of this event season, and as you continue to support the channel, I wanted to extend a huge appreciation for everyone who has joined the Zookie-verse in the last few weeks, and everyone who has been supporting since the start. This episode, I broke my camera at the Long Beach event but was still able to record footage for you guys before sending in the camera for repair. I hope you enjoy the episode, it's quite yappy and information heavy.


Here's some basic stats of the event featured, Vendor Program with CSU Long Beach
Week long event (Mon-Thurs. 9am-5pm)
Located on CSU Long Beach, outside the bookstore
Space provided up to 20x20 under a large canopy
$150/day booth fee
Insurance policy requires a minimum coverage of $4 million general aggregate and $2 million per occurrence

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Video Segments:
00:00 - intro
00:16 - i broke my camera...
01:00 - the most expensive event ever istg, i hope it's worth my time and money
02:46 - here's what the back of the booth looks like and why we're at csulb
04:25 - shout-out to kayla and fiona
05:32 - what is general liability insurance and why you might need it?
07:22 - what is an umbrella coverage?
10:48 - how are we using the space now that we have a 20x20
12:54 - a pep talk for when things go wrong...
17:08 - upselling my pins
18:06 - here's an update on day 3
20:06 - how we modified the set up to increase sales
22:54 - the final day, doing pin prep all day, concluding thoughts, whether it was worth it
27:13 - how I display my sticker walls
29:53 - packing up and conclusion about the event

Thank you for watching, and reading this description lolol!

MUSIC:
All music belongs to Mahito Yokota, ‎Koji Kondo, and the creators of the Super Mario franchise.
relaxing super mario galaxy playlist │ nostalgic nintendo music compilation for studying or relaxing
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puzzle plank galaxy (smg 2)
staff roll
cosmic cove galaxy (smg 2)
starship mario (smg 2)
comet observatory 3
starshine beach galaxy (smg 2)
beach bowl galaxy
world 1 (smg 2)
buoy base galaxy
space fantasy


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