As some of you know, blogging is a tricky act. Many are born but not many keep going. It has been a little while since we at BSSK have posted, however it is time to get back to it!
The intent is still there to keep everyone informed in the "behind the scenes" workings at BSSK, updates on events and happenings and generally keep in touch.
We're also intending to post news, interesting stories, interviews and articles all relating to what we do. While in these early stages we have made a few changes to our social media which we want to make you aware of.
We have a new Twitter profile - twitter.com/AngieBSSK and we have also created a Pinterest profile at http://pinterest.com/ajury1111/boards/ If you haven't been on Pinterest, have a little look. It's a very energising website with a great exchange of ideas, inspiration and even recipes.
We are looking forward to posting more often on here, and especially sharing our stories and reading your comments!
x
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Monday, 8 October 2012
The Monastery De-brief
What a weekend! Manchester is officially our PREMIER event! We had an increase to our door figures for both days - not bad in a double dip recession! Our wonderful visitors were taking full advantage of the delights on offer with our cash facility working overtime and exhibitor after exhibitor reporting their best ever Manchester and even their best ever show of all time! Two exhibitors reported taking more in the two days than in three at Olympia and therapists and readers were wishing they could have cloned themselves as they could have filled their timetable three times over.
Our thanks to our new helpers, Kathryn, Lisa, Nick and Daniel who helped us out when we lost three regular helpers at this show - Lorah to 'Braxton Hicks' at the very last minute, Joe Walsh due to Marge being ill and Keith Weaver to a wedding overseas.
As you might expect, one doesn't put a show of this size together without a few hiccoughs and stresses, but these all go on behind the scenes and hopefully are not obvious to our exhibitors and visitors. Honestly, I think I could write a book at times - I am sure it would be more unbelievable than ficiton! Fortunately I am blessed with a sense of humour and this undauntable 'glass half full' mentality, so am never fazed for too long by problems and difficulties.
I wanted to come around and see everyone on Sunday, but we were kept so busy in the ticket office, I am afraid I never surfaced all weekend! We ran 69 talks/workshops over the weekend, and every one of the free sessions was full with some standing. The paid workshops, whilst never quite so popular, also had good numbers with four of them fully booked.
Visitors came from far and wide, including London, Scotland, some of our regulars from other shows including Newcastle, Lincoln, Barnsley and Cambridge and best of all, one lady from Switzerland! Large numbers of visitors travelled to Manchester and stayed over for the weekend. We ended up with quite a collection of 'left luggage' in the ticket office from those who had checked out of their hotels on the Sunday morning!
It was wonderful to have the Saints back on their plinths and looking down on the event and the wonderful Monastery building welcomed us and wrapped us in its gentle ambience for what has been another incredible experience.
We hope you all enjoyed it and that those new to BSSK will be back again - to our regulars, thank you so much for being a part of it once again. Thank you too for the many e-mails of thanks received from exhibitors this morning and the Facebook comments. It makes the exhaustion and aching limbs worthwhile! :)
Today was the finishing up day, sorting out the messages, the speaker payments, the queries and paying the bills. Tomorrow sees us back on track preparing for Houghton-le-Spring in two weeks time and starting the mail out for Lincoln, our last show of 2012 - how unbelievable is that! Only 7,500 envelopes to fill and post out, there's something to look forward to!
Kindest regards and thanks to you all once again for making Manchester so memorable.
Angie & Chris xxx
Our thanks to our new helpers, Kathryn, Lisa, Nick and Daniel who helped us out when we lost three regular helpers at this show - Lorah to 'Braxton Hicks' at the very last minute, Joe Walsh due to Marge being ill and Keith Weaver to a wedding overseas.
As you might expect, one doesn't put a show of this size together without a few hiccoughs and stresses, but these all go on behind the scenes and hopefully are not obvious to our exhibitors and visitors. Honestly, I think I could write a book at times - I am sure it would be more unbelievable than ficiton! Fortunately I am blessed with a sense of humour and this undauntable 'glass half full' mentality, so am never fazed for too long by problems and difficulties.
I wanted to come around and see everyone on Sunday, but we were kept so busy in the ticket office, I am afraid I never surfaced all weekend! We ran 69 talks/workshops over the weekend, and every one of the free sessions was full with some standing. The paid workshops, whilst never quite so popular, also had good numbers with four of them fully booked.
Visitors came from far and wide, including London, Scotland, some of our regulars from other shows including Newcastle, Lincoln, Barnsley and Cambridge and best of all, one lady from Switzerland! Large numbers of visitors travelled to Manchester and stayed over for the weekend. We ended up with quite a collection of 'left luggage' in the ticket office from those who had checked out of their hotels on the Sunday morning!
It was wonderful to have the Saints back on their plinths and looking down on the event and the wonderful Monastery building welcomed us and wrapped us in its gentle ambience for what has been another incredible experience.
We hope you all enjoyed it and that those new to BSSK will be back again - to our regulars, thank you so much for being a part of it once again. Thank you too for the many e-mails of thanks received from exhibitors this morning and the Facebook comments. It makes the exhaustion and aching limbs worthwhile! :)
Today was the finishing up day, sorting out the messages, the speaker payments, the queries and paying the bills. Tomorrow sees us back on track preparing for Houghton-le-Spring in two weeks time and starting the mail out for Lincoln, our last show of 2012 - how unbelievable is that! Only 7,500 envelopes to fill and post out, there's something to look forward to!
Kindest regards and thanks to you all once again for making Manchester so memorable.
Angie & Chris xxx
Sunday, 12 August 2012
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