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Over the last weekend it kinda hit me how massively helpful selling a bunch of merch over the course of a show / festival can be to a performer. Kinda dumb not to pick up on this earlier I know but I think it is an area shows here could be better. I've given it a bunch of thought over the last couple of days and I had a few ideas which might make running the merch table easier and might sell a few more CDs or shirts. I'm also kinda stumped on a couple of points...

1 - I did actually do this, but print out a bunch of sheets with

Item / number recieved / price / number sold / to pay / pay to

And put them all on a clipboard so it is easy to enter merch, total it all up and pay out

2 - Buy a few dollar store plastic cd storeage boxes and make some dividers do you can keep your "stock" quickly accessible and easy to keep track of. Didn't do this!

3 - buy a bunch of clip lights and a multi adaptor, venues are dark, hard to see merch, hard for merch staff to work. Didn't do this!

4 - make sure you have a cash box, calculator, rolls of tape, price tags, pens and markers. Kinda did this.

5 - Think of a decent way to display shirts. This baffles me, basically the venue where we do our show has a very very small area for merch and no hooks / hangers for shirts. We have ended up duct taping shirts to the wall which isn't really ideal and wastes a bunch of space. In trying to think of some kinda free standing portable rack to put behind the merch tables with the shirts on. Any ideas?

So does anyone have any other ideas for making running merch tables easier / more profitable?

Also in my experience, CDs and shirts are the only things which really seem to sell. Ctrix has done pretty well with USB sticks packed with data, anyone had luck with other types of merch?