SHE WENT TO THE MARKET

Hey *|FNAME|*,

How was your weekend?  The 1st "Everything SHE Needs" market is in the books!! 

Woo Hoo!!  After all the hours we spent working on the event,  planning, organizing, inviting and PRAYING ~the day finally came.  (I am sure those of you that follow us are thankful it is over! thanks for sticking with us!)  For us the market was a way to get our name out into the community. We wanted to be able to tell people (and I mean any and everyone who will listen to us) about our ideas and plans for SHE Degree.

As we began, every aspect of the event fell into place just like it was meant to be.  Word spread all around about the event ~ Social media is amazing! We had ads on Nooga.com , a regional on line news site and even made our TV debut.  I will be keeping my day job! Lisa, however was a natural.  Vendors were calling up to the day before the event.  Of course we were more than happy to add them to the venue layout. Courtney was great at rearranging and accommodating the floor plan each time we sent out a new group text asking "Can we please add one more?" 

Secretly, we could not believe how excited and willing people were to join us on the adventure.  A market is in reality a no brainer ~ ladies like to SHOP.  And we wanted different / unique businesses and businesses owned by women if possible. More than anything we wanted the day to be a success for our vendors and have enough attendees to allow us to make a generous donation to St Jude's Children's Research hospital in memory of Cody Heard.  Now the scary unknown ... would anyone come to the event?  What if NO ONE showed up?? Yikes! We would have all these vendors there, who invested their time, efforts and money into this market. They each stepped out in a leap of faith, trusting that the ladies of SHE Degree knew what they were doing.  And we couldn't let them down. That is a lot of pressure and took lots of prayers. 

The market allowed ladies to sell their product, book home parties and build their teams. And us a chance to tell people about SHE Degree.  Everyone loved the idea and were so excited and supportive of our venture.   There was a lot of work that went into the day but boy was it was it worth it.  We met so many sweet people.  Lots of moms and daughters, girlfriends , co-workers and church friends all hanging out and having a fun girl's day!
Just how we dreamed it would be.    What do you think of our booth?

Were you were able to join us?  I hope you had a fun time and snapped a photo or 2 on the red carpet!  Please let us know what you thought about it. 

Stay tuned... I think we are going to do it again. 

Xoxo, 

Amy