When you are in the midst of the intense and crazed days of a Kickstarter, where your wrists and fingers hurt from all of the computer time spent emailing and well, begging, for some attention, you dream of being a Staff Pick. And you dream that the Associated Press will notice you and interview you. Right? These things did not happen simultaneously but THEY HAPPENED. A few months after our Kickstarter successfully funded, we were getting ready for New York Comic Con. We have our Con*Quest Adventure Journals to take for the first time, so awesome new accessories that our manufacturer pulled off at the last minute and a LOT OF Kickstarter backers who were picking up their journals at the show.
Out of the blue, Joseph Pisani, Big Story business reporter, contacted me to talk about being chosen as a Kickstarter Staff Pick. Then there was this whole thing where a photographer came to our booth at New York Comic Con and took some pictures on the one day I was manning the booth solo. And today the story came out! So here it is, in all it's fantastic glory.
We leave tomorrow for New York Comic Con and will be setting up and getting ready to meet all of our Kickstarter backers and our preorder customers plus all of the awesome new people we hope will come by booth 2770 to check out our stuff! We have a new booth display that we are SO excited about, so even though we are in the far back, you will hopefully recognize us when you get there!
KICK ASS DISPLAY
Don't forget to come by early to get our NYCC 2014 Show Exclusive Pin!
They are $5 when you buy a journal, $7 on their own. We only have 200 of them, so they will go fast! You can pin them to the binding on your journal or tote bag to signify that all of your NYCC goodness is inside your journal.
*CHING sparkle sparkle*
The Con*Quest Adventure Journal™ is the perfect place to store all of your artwork, photo-ops and autographs.
I have signed up to get my picture with Stephen Amell aka Arrow, so I'm pretty excited to add him to my journal!
We are so excited to test new merchandise exclusively at New York Comic Con.
With our manufacturing partner, we have developed three new products that we think you will love and that will add a really special vibe to the whole show: Con*Pliment Cards™, Con*Panion Note Cards™ and Con*Panion Mini Journals! I think we are most excited about the Con*Pliment Cards, which are business sized cards with con specific compliments that you can pass out to awesome people you meet. There's a line on the back to include your contact info, but you don't have to do that. You can just give fellow attendees a Con*Pliment just to spread kindness and fun. We're only bringing about 25 sets of each, so if you want to get some of our newest stuff, get to our booth 2770 early! Watch our Twitter and Facebook, I'll reveal the new stuff online as soon as we have it in our hands.
We can't wait to see you all at NYCC!
NYCC 2014 Exhibitor Exclusive Box Opening!
For the very first time, we are offering a lapel style pin as our show exclusive for New York Comic Con 2014. With just 2 weeks until the show, I received the pins and opened them up for the first time! These will make great collectibles to commemorate the con and you can stick them on the binding of your Con*Quest Adventure Journal to customize it for the show. Check out my video unveiling below and stop by our booth at NYCC, #2770 to get your Con*Quest Adventure Journal and exhibitor exclusive pin. You can still preorder the journal in our Etsy shop as well!
NYCC Pre-Order Special! Link to Etsy
We are having a pre-order special for NYCC! Get $5 off a bag and journal when you pre-order through our Esty shop! You can then pick up your journal and bag at the show in our booth #2770! In the NYCC newsletter, the link leads you to our website, but the special is actually at this link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/198237362/nycc-pre-order-special-price-conquest?ref=shop_home_active_1. Our journal and bag will be $40 at the show, so be sure to pre-order at the $35 special price!
So pre-order now and make sure you have the best way to capture your con!
Successful Kickstarter, Show Schedule and Pre-Orders
Thank you!
Successful Kickstarter
First we just want to say THANK YOU to all of the amazing backers of our successful Kickstarter campaign! We are so very grateful for all of the support, sharing, and general awesome response that we received. What a wild ride it was! There were so many lessons that we learned through the process: how effective videos can be, how we need to continue reaching out to people and networking, how important it is to keep getting the journal in reviewers' hands and how effective con email blasts are at marketing the journal. But most of all we learned that people love the journal and that has made us more excited than ever to continue building this business and adding new accessories and versions to grow it further. Keep watching the site as we add those accessories and more on our Get It page.
Shows and Pre Orders
We are getting ready for our big show push, shipping out journals and working with our manufacturer to get as many delivered to us as possible in time for Gen Con and Wizard World Chicago Comic Con. We also have a large number of pre-orders for New York Comic Con in October and are super excited for that show as well! Here's a rundown of our upcoming events:
Gen Con: August 14-17 at the Indiana Convention Center
Pre-order journals here for $5 off before the show!
We're in our One Less Nemesis booth #1954, pre-orders can be picked up at the show
Wizard World Chicago: August 21-24 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL
Pre-order journals here for $5 off before the show!
We're in our One Less Nemesis booth #1954, pre-orders can be picked up at the show
New York Comic Con: October 9-12 at Javits Center in NYC
Pre-order journals here for $5 off before the show!
We're in booth #2770, pre-orders can be picked up at the show
We will be adding more shows to the fall schedule as we work through the next few weeks and get a feel for inventory and what shows we can get to! Please comment if you have questions and keep checking back with us!
