Visit us at the The Baby Show

We are really happy to announce that Baby’s First Calendar will again be attending  the UK’s number 1 baby show.

We last exhibited at at the Earls Court location. This will be our first experience of ExCel and we are we are really looking forward to it.

We hope to see lots of you at the show, do come and say hello and remember to enter our free prize draw to win £100 on the day!

Myleene Klass opens the Baby Show 2010. Which Celebs will be attending this year?!

Give your baby the best start by visiting the UK’s number one Baby Show.

In just one day you can…

• Enjoy huge savings on 1000s of must have products from top brands
• Try before you buy to find the right products for you
• Learn all you need for a happy, healthy baby from experts
• Talk with midwives and health experts to put any concerns to rest
• Get expert product advice and demos

… Plus, relax as nappy changing, feeding and play areas, shopping drop-off and collect by car services make visiting a breeze.

Visit us at the first ever Love Baby Festeval in Bristol on 30th January 2011

With such great organisers and a host of lovely products & services to browse or buy at special prices it’s going to be a fantastic day.

Whether you are expecting a baby or have the toddlers in tow (or both!) you’re sure to find something you’ll love.

Look forward to seeing everyone on Sunday 30th January 2011 at Paintworks, Bristol, BS4 3EH – open 10.30am – 4pm – Free Entry.

Click to buy tickets online

We are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at The Designer Baby Show this month.

On the 15th November between 10am – 5pm at:

The Centre Conference Venue

Farnham Road

Slough

Berkshire

SL1 4UT

The show will be opened by Annabel Karmel MBE, the world’s leading expert and best selling author on Baby & Children’s food and nutrition.

Annabel will be giving two 45 minute talks in the Celebrity theatre at 11.00am & 2.30pm, giving top tips on baby weaning & everything you need to know about baby & toddler nutrition. You will also have the chance to ask her direct questions during her Q & A section.

From The Designer Baby Show website:

Bringing together both high-profile brands and less well-known names (those hard-to-find but brilliant-to-discover companies), The Designer Baby Show presents the most covetable collection of 100 companies offering everything for stylish mummy’s to be to babies and toddlers.

It makes the complex task of planning your new arrival much simpler. Instead of spending weeks requesting company brochures, visiting designers’ shops, trawling the internet and hitting the phone, you can spend one day in a relaxed and focused environment at The Designer Baby Show finding everything you need.

You can buy tickets online by clicking the image above or visiting http://thedesignerbabyshow.co.uk.

Our followers on twitter (@Babys1stCalenda) will have a chance to win a pair of tickets to the show soon.

With host of great exhibitors and offers this really does look like it’s going to be a great show and one we are really excited about. We look forward to seeing you there, stand 74.

To say we were a little nervous about launching Baby’s First Calendar would be an understatement, after months and months of planning, research, development, protection plus all the ins and outs of starting a business the time had finally come. It’s one thing for family and friends as well as a number of your target market to be full of praise for your new product, but something else entirely  actually getting out there and unveiling it to the general public!

I decided to launch at The Baby Show, Earls Court. A three day event where parents and parents–to-be can get everything they need and more, from the big name brands to the weird and the wonderful, it’s all there. We booked late on and so didn’t have as much choice about our position as we would have liked but nonetheless this was it, we were going to launch!

The show is open to the general public from Friday to Sunday; we travelled down on the Thursday to set up our stand. It was tough going getting there, all the planning in the world couldn’t prepare us for not 1 but 2 vans breaking down on us, unbelievable, and it then took about 3hrs of ringing round to finally be able to source a hire van (thanks enterprise for all your help!).

After our van nightmare, no surprise we arrived rather late, about 9pm giving us an hour to set up, we unloaded our stock from the van, placed it in storage and made up our stand, with no previous experience of this we did the best we could – this is what it looked like:

Baby's First Calendar stand at The Baby Show

Friday morning, show opens and we were like rabbits caught in the headlights, neither my partner nor I had any experience of this sort of thing, and it was pretty quiet up until lunchtime. Our belief in Baby’s First Calendar shone through when people were asking us about it and we started to make sales, the positive comments from the general public was fantastic and definitely helped settle the nerves!

Saturday we found the show to be much busier, the nerves had settled and confidence was up, we sold double the amount on the Saturday than we had on the Friday and had great day, apart from the aching feet!

Over the 3 days we sold over 120 of Baby’s First Calendar, not as many as we would have liked admittedly, but nowhere near as low as we feared. The positive comments from the public was fantastic, a big thank you to all our customers.

Our goal at The Baby Show was not to sell thousands of Baby’s First Calendar’s but to raise awareness of our product and let the public, as well as the trade know that we had arrived. To this end I have to say we achieved our goal, we gave many flyers full of information to visitors of the show and these people are now becoming our valued customers.

All in all we were happy with the outcome of exhibiting at The Baby Show. The feedback I had from a number of exhibitors at this year’s Earls Court show who had also exhibited last year was that it was not as busy as previous years, maybe this is due to the current climate or venue, and it wasn’t as busy as I had expected, but as I say, all in all we achieved our goal.