Well
First- the great:
1) Volunteers really did super. That includes the board members , spouses, kids, and member volunteers.
2) The Venue - I think the vendors really appreciate the fact they could drive into the building to setup and breakdown.
3) Great sellers vs buyers ratio. Of coarse we could not predict this exactly. But keeping vendors to under 20 helped. Next year max at 25 vendors as I expect an additional attendence of about 25%.
4) Wild World of Animals - next year an hour earlier.
The things that we could improve on:
1) Lock in vendors and hobbyist 3 weeks in advance and close it to any additions.
2) do not post or suggest any raffle items until those items are in hand - we had several items that we posted but ended up not being sent to us.
3) have actual cash boxes - lol . Makeshift cash boxes out if cardboard worked but showed it was our first fragswap.
4) lock in a date when we know it's not in conflict with Reefapollosa or other reef event. Also make sure we have access the night before much earlier than 11pm.
5) Reduce raffles to two instead of four. 2 o'clock and 4 o'clock.
6) Have someone with better skill and knowledge doing the Facebook posting, social media, etc than myself.. Lol. Although I learned a lot.
