Pheonix Trading Card Sales

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Hi, I am contemplating becoming a Pheonix Trader and selling the cards. I am not a sales person and do not want to sell them at craft fairs or anything, more by handing out the brochure to friends / the nursery ds is at etc.

Does anyone else sell PT cards and if so is it financially worthwhile if you do not want to dedicate too much time to it?

Any feedback would be much appreciated

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I did it because I liked the stuff. But only wanted to do it PT and found that money went on delivery charges. I did some fetes etc around xmas and made some money then, but with ds3's arrival haven't got the time anymore. Also found that I'm not really comfortable with sales - now I market instead- much better.

Jimjams, what do you mean by market?

I do something else that involves marketing, rather than sales - I feel more comfortable with it, but only because I'm crap at selling to friends (wheras I have no problem telling people about something that they can choose to use or not iyswim).

TBH though it prob depends on your social circle. Lots of friends wanted Phoenix cards (they are lovely), but I don't have a school gates crowd or anything so didn't have a very wide cirlce of friends geographically close to me.

I have a friend who does Phoenix cards; she does a stall at eg coffee mornings and sometimes gives a percentage of her profit to her charity, but mostly she keeps cards at home and distributes her catalogue to various people who buy privately.

The cards/paper are excellent quality and reasonably priced - if you have a wide circle of friends you can probably do pretty well just from that.

I also do it on a very small scale. I think as others have said, it depends on how wide your social circle is and how much you are willing to "stick your neck out" to widen that circle.

I don't make huge amounts of money, but there are those who do.

Thanks, think I will give it a go - will let you know if I become a millionaire

Gillian, do you know if you can not do any sales for a few months i.e. Jan-Mar when it is probably quiet?