GREEN FESTIVAL REPORT
There were thousands of people who passed through over the 2 day duration of the festival.
My first impression as i walked into the convention center was, wow! The place was abuzz with excitement.
The first booth i visited was a organic tea beverage joint, i had a sample of their products and wasn't impressed (i don't even remember the names). This made me even more excited to see the apple rush booth. booth 1153. It was so far back in the convention center and after about 10 minutes of trying to locate it..there is was surrounded by about 3 "customers" and 1 RSHN investor. I snapped a quick picture, the pulled out all the interviews questions from the board. I scanned around looking for ...Bob. Nada! I asked the bearded gentleman if Bob, Alex or any of the company execs. were there...the answer was a resounding no...
So who is repping for the company?
(pointing at himself with both hands) I am manning the booth today.
What's your relation to the company?
I am a distributor and reseller, based in Silver Spring, Maryland.
I own Haynal's Health Foods
How did you find out and get hooked up with Apple Rush products?
at the 2006 Food Expo. I spoke to Alex...i guess i was really turned on by Rush XXX, i love the stuff!
So much so that you wanted to be a reseller?
oh, yes!
I got my first order (70) and a month later got in my second order (120)
nice, so it pretty much flew off the shelves and you had to put in a second larger order?
yes, people like it.
What did you order?
most of their products
e-water too?
yes, but not much
did you reorder more e-water, i mean a bigger order?
no.
so e-water hasn't been selling much?
you can say that.
ok, just wondering about the numbers...how much did your first order cost?
AT WHICH POINT THE RSHN INVESTOR WHO WAS STANDING BY JUMPED IN AND SAID YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER THAT, HE DOESN'T NEED TO KNOW. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW A BUSINESS IS RUN, IT TAKES TIME AND IT WILL TAKE TIME FOR BOB TO GET ALL HIS PRODUCTS OUT....blah, blah, blah...(i retorted - investors have the right to know where their money is going, they want figures) - he also asked that i do not post his picture of him talking to Haynal.
needless to say the interview was rudely interrupted a few more times, but i was able to get this much more out of Haynal
Are you happy with the product?
very happy!
There are other distributors interested
like who?
(edited) is interested and they are much bigger than i am. They cover Whole Foods here, and believe me you will be happy when they do!
- just a side note, the whole foods near me (Bio) doesn't carry AR.
Thanks!
As the interview was going on, a number of customers were buying AR and that made me smile. see, i did not this much buying at other beverage booths.
now about the samples...
how come you do not have little taste samples like other booths?
We did not bring the right sample container...you know the organic approved ones
Mmmmhhhh...
As i stood there and watched folks buying, i thought, maybe this is a blessing is disguise.
I will add, that if a customer brought their own cup Haynal and co. readily gave sample tasting of AR products.
As u may have noticed in the pictures, i snapped stills of random people drinking AR products. I also asked a few what they thought of it, all of them loved it!
I left and came back in the afternoon(saturday) and same story, folks buying, sunday too, but i only spent about 4 hours at the festival as opposed to the whole day spent on saturday.
i bought six 4-packs and brought some to the office. they loved it too, now my office will be purchasing some organic AR!!
Overall, i think Haynal is excited about the product so much so that he did the Green Festival and uses the products himself....is good news, very good news.
I was disappointed not to have been able to talk to Bob or Alex.Maybe just as well they weren't there as these shows can take a lot of time from their main tasks of increasing shareholder value. If an interested party wanted to carry AR, i am sure Haynal would have gladly given Alex's info out.
ok, cheers folks and i hope this mini report at least puts u in a better mood. i know, it's no substitute for numbers and will not be helping the PPS short-term. But good news for the longs!
i haven't spelled checked this
- Bio
