So to give everyone an idea on how successful vending can be I’ve decided to include a post detailing what one of our customers was able to do in 1 hour.

At an Illinois Suburb of Chicago with about 5,000 people present one customer vended almost $700 worth of product.  He would have sold (vended) more but he ran out of the most popular item the LED 7 color stick.

Most of his success vending was due to high quality bright products and the fact that he only carried two different items.  The biggest problem a vendor can have is not being able to close the deal fast.  The longer it takes to please one customer the less selling you’ll be able to do.  By giving only one or two options you enable them to quickly select give you the money and leave.  You can also then upsell them if the two items are different enough.

Here his other item was the LED necklace, with a good number of people getting one of both.  What also

helped was a complimentary pricing system.  He sold them for $3 a piece or 2 for $5.  The $5 price point for two enabled families with multiple children to easily and affordably make everyone happy.  Also he allowed mix and matching, so if one child wanted both a LED stick and an LED necklace then that would still only cost them $5.

To see his profits take his $700 and subtract his total cost of approximately $1.25 per item (288 items).  So you get $700 - 360 for product = $340 in one hour!

Admittedly he wished he had several vendors and a lot more product, more planning for next year I guess. But still he made mroe in 1 hour then in several days worth of work at his job.

In the previous post we discussed how to dress a fairway for Night Golf.  Here we are now going to address the green.  Here special attention has to be placed on outlining the edges of the green so the golfer know where the nice low grass ends and the rough grass begins.  To do this we begin by outlining the green in 6″ premium glow sticks laid on the border.

Now some are going to remember in my previous article that I steered you away from simply laying down glow.  The difference here is that the grass is cut low on the inside of the green thereby removing the possibility of the glow being hidden by the grass.  Secondly you’re not going to put up any erect glow sticks since they could deflect a well placed wedge shot.  And lastly it looks amazing to have the entire green outlined in these sticks, almost calling the golfer to it.

As for the cup itself you are going to want to use one of our Deluxe Glow Bracelets to put in the whole.  While taking up almost no space itself, it releases a huge amount of glow that seems to just emanate from the whole calling the ball in.

The pin can be dressed in several different manners.  You can attach several glow necklaces to it, LED necklaces, or our newest item the lumi-ton! Whats great about the lumi-ton is that youc an choose a color setting or have it rotate through the colors, drawing even more attention to it.

When you’re done the green should look something like this:

All the suggestions above work best with the Night Flyer CL golf ball.  See it in action once and you’ll never forget it!

Ever wondered how an LED works?  Click here to read our post on just that!

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To learn how Glow works click here.

Children love to dress up and pretend (the benefits of which can be read about here), sometimes even taking some of their Mom’s jewelry or make up to help their imaginations. And this is great, except for the fact that sometimes you don’t want them playing with your heirloom ring or even your own costume jewelry because it could hurt them.

Well what if you could give them light-up jewelry that not only lets them make pretend, but also is a cool accessory for just going out with the other kids? Well now you can!

Windy City Novelties, Inc. has tons of great LED light up items in the form of rings, necklaces, bracelets, hair pins and much much more. Its always amazing to me when I see the local neighborhood children running around at night with our light up jewelry adorned everywhere.

And don’t think these are just for little kids, teens and even college aged love light up jewelry too, they wear it for parties, to the club, or even just when its the girls going out!

Ever wondered how and LED works?  Click here to read an article on just that!

It is undeniable, finally, that summer is here. How do I know this you ask? Well for starters the birds are back but more importantly so are the summer festivals.

Vending time is upon us.  Summer fest, Independence days, Carnivals, Concerts and picnics are here and that means large concentrations of families out enjoying the evening together. This is a perfect situation to go out and start vending Glow LED Novelties or other items.

Now some are asking “what do you mean by vending“, what I mean is this is the perfect time to go raise tons of money for your club, sports team, Firefighters brigage, Fraternal order of the Police, or just even Yourself!

$50 of product can net you over $500 in an hour, and if you think I’m exaggerating then you’ve never done it. Why else do you think places like Disney World, or Six Flags hire tons of people to go out and sell inexpensive fun items?

The key to this, besides getting local government approval i.e. a vending license, is to make sure that what you’re selling is a good deal and that the kids are happy when the get the items. The best situation you can be in is for your customers, and their parents, to be happy to see you and get something that they’ll love. To this end LED items or Glow sticks are perfect, they entertain and occupy the kids while not annoying anyone else, stay away from noisemakers! Do this and you’ll have plenty of repeat business to keep your pockets full all summer.

For a video on how to vend, and how to organize others to vend, click here or simply look below.