Tabling
The Supplies
- We have a red tablecloth and table skirting: See Table Skirting. We always either reset the able to use our cloth or skirting, or as needed place our cloth and skirting over the existing table cover (sometimes they're stapled down). Place the tablecloth on the table, then use the appropriate clips to clip the skirting around the edge.
- Fliers
- Buttons
- Old Con Books
- Book stand
- Card stands
- Button Machine
- Table skirt clips
Making Buttons
We have a button machine. Make buttons!
The Spiel
As part of tabling we use a basic spiel to quickly tell people about SNAFU Con. It consists of four parts:
- Who -- SNAFU Con, then tell them what SNAFU stands for.
- What -- a three day convention. Depending on the audience you can say "anime convention"
- Where -- Reno-Sparks, Nevada, because people don't know what Sparks is, but saying just Reno can get you in an argument. Talk about the venue instead if you're near enough to Sparks that everyone knows where the Nugget is.
- When -- the next con's date.
Would you like a FREE button?
The buttons are free; the fliers are also free if you can believe that...
We are SNAFU Con: Sierra Nevada Anime Fans Unite. We're a three-day anime convention in the Reno/Sparks area of Nevada, October six through eight.
We run 55 hours of continuous programming, which means we don't sleep and you don't have to. But if you are partial to sleeping we're in a hotel-casino, so you can run right up to your hotel room and right back down to the Con floor without ever leaving the building.
Our room rates are quite reasonable this year at around sixty-five dollars a night, and our badge price is currently thirty-five dollars, increasing to forty in September.
TODO: Update the spiel. We no longer have continuous programming, opting to shut down at night due to health concerns.