Kinky Makers and Vendors

By: M. Kuldrin / Nov 04, 2025
Entrepreneur, Maker, Artist, Certified Life Coach, Podcast Coach, Audio Engineer

First things first: 

• How do you know what you make is worth the time, effort, money, and headache?

• • What, when, why, who, and how:
    • What are you going to make?
    • When are you making them?
    • Why are you making them?
    • Who specifically is your customer?
    • How will you market and sell them?
    • How do you know what you make is worth the time, effort, money, and headache?

• How will you stand out from other makers?
• Getting Started:
  • Know your craft
  • Know your specific customers (Don’t set up to sell just wooden paddles at an electroplay party)
  • Define success and set goals
  • Research cons, parties, and events
  • Make prototypes
  • Test prototypes
  • Remake and retest as necessary
  • Have others test your products
  • Set product pricing
  • Take pictures of your finished products
  • Post pics to all appropriate socials and build hype about your products
  • Have others “review” your items and post pics
  • Get to know venue owners, party hosts, and event coordinators
• • Preparing for your first event and making sales:
    • Build more hype about the event you are going to vend at. Mention that you will be there vending, but keep the focus on the event. More in-person eyes on your products will directly impact your profit. When you are first starting, this is even more important in the kink world because kinksters are inundated with toy pics and ads every time we log on to Fetlife.
    • Stock up on your products
    • Set up and test a tap-to-pay payment system, such as Venmo or PayPal
    • Check with the Venue owner and ask other vendors who have been to that venue about WiFi to make sure you will have access, in case you don’t have cell service
    • Find out how much it costs to set up
      • Some party hosts charge a fee or want a percentage
      • Some venues charge a fee or want a percentage
      • All cons charge a fee and or a percentage
      • Personally, I will never vend for a percentage.
      • BONUS TIP: Relationship building: If the event was a success and money was made, I always give the party host a free item of my choosing, especially if they didn’t charge me to set up.
    • Set up and test a simple transportation system for your products at least two weeks before your first event.
    • Set a dedicated cutoff for making items for each event. This will vary depending on what you make, but generally, mine is two days to a week before the event. Doing this helps prevent a ton of stress!!!

• HAVE A DEDICATED HELPER FOR THE EVENT!!!

• Collect email addresses and Fetlife names.
• Post-event:
  • Be packed up on time-not early and not late. 
    • If you have last-minute customers, which almost always happens, have a plan in place. I typically talk to them while the helper continues packing up the things the customers are not looking at. Usually, the last-minute customers already know what they want or they just want to talk to the person who made the products. 
  • Thank the party host, venue owner, event coordinator, or whoever was responsible for you being allowed to vend.
  • Send that contact person a message a few days later and thank them again. I typically give them a few days to get settled back into life after the event.
  • Take inventory of your leftover products
  • Keep a log or spreadsheet of your items so you know what sells, how well, and what doesn’t. 
  • Keep track of all of the feedback you get. This will be a huge help later when making new items and planning for future events.
  • Starting reloading inventory and prepping for your next event. 
• Online Sales:
  • Etsy, eBay, Amazon, Personal website (Squarespace or WordPress)
  • Marketing on Fetlife and other adult sites and socials
  • YouTube and podcast marketing
• Imposter Syndrom
  • The feeling that your products are good enough to sell. 
  • It happens to everyone throughout their maker/vendor journey. You have to push past it and trust the people who tested your products. Always be sure to ask people to review them like you were someone else and to be brutally honest. I will not let people get away with only saying good things. It’s not about my feelings; it’s about making the best items I can.
• Coaching and questions:
  • While it isn’t discussed in the kink community, business, life, and social media coaching, and mastermind groups can make a massive positive impact on a person’s success.
  • masterkuldrin@gmail.com Subject line: Vendor
• Sources:
  • Thirty-four(34) years of personal experience in sales, making, and vending, thirty(30) years managing, starting, buying, and selling over a dozen successful businesses, and thirty(30) years in kink: https://KuldrinsKrypt.com/ 

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