Hi, Leroy. Best of luck to you in starting up a
vape meet in North Central Florida
I recently started a
vape meet down here in South Florida (South Florida Vapers), four months ago. I was lucky that Clouds of Vapor was interested in coming to our vape meets to set up his goodies to sell at our vape meets. There's no set way of having a vape meet. If you have a nearby store that wants to come set up and sell, then that's great. If not, that shouldn't discourage you, because everyone really just enjoys getting together no matter what. If a vendor wants to host a vape meet at their store and you think the location and specifics will be okay, then that's great too. I try to reach out to vendors when I can to ask for donations for free raffle prizes we give out. We give everyone one raffle ticket and give away stuff, if possible. Then I'm sure to post pictures of the winners around and thank the Vendors for supporting us. One thing I found out is don't be surprised if you get like no RSVP's hardly and then several people show up at the vape meet. I really didn't think we were going to have more than maybe 6 people at our first vape meet, and we had 17. So you just never know. Also, it takes a few months for it to grow and people to slowly find out about your group. We actually hyped up our first vape meet for a couple months before we had it, so that helped too. And I try to post it everywhere. Here is a good link of suggestions of where you can post about your vape meets.
Links to Resources | Vaping Guides to the Electronic Cigarette These guys are also in Florida and come to our vape meets (Don and Eric).
Also, we are on Facebook under South Florida Vapers. Facebook really helps alot in notifying everyone of future meets and posting photo albums!
