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Profiting From Political Schwag

By on March 3, 2008 in Ideas


Fortune Small Business:

Roving political-schwag seller Cameron Koepke expects a floor fight between John McCain and Mike Huckabee at the Republican convention, and he’s been predicting a dead heat between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for quite some time.

Lugging his T-shirts and buttons around the primary states, Koepke correctly called the winners of the Iowa caucuses by using his sales and crowd enthusiasm as a gauge (he made no predictions for Super Tuesday). Obama, he says, is the strongest draw – although that hasn’t always translated into the highest sales.

Koepke usually pockets about $1 in receipts for each voter at a rally, but Obama packs ‘em in so tight that the average drops to 40 or 50 cents.

“With 1,000 people in a ballroom, there’s one entrance and exit, and we can cover that with two people. But Obama’s putting 10,000 in a building, and you can’t see everybody,” says Koepke. “But you have more volume, so it works out.”

Editor’s note: $1 in sales from each voter? 10,000 voters per location? Wow! a nice profitable biz.

Photo by Paul Sancya.

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    Well here is a prime example of a motivated and well organized Entrepreneur. This is the sort of thing that can be a challenge for many of us Telecommuters however, as it involves travel. But I could see this type of thing really paying off for someone who has the ability to do it.

    One question comes to mind however, what does he do when no elections are being organized?

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  • Rich

    If you consider state, regional and local elections, there are elections going on all the time.

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