Anime Milwaukee 2025

Anime Milwaukee seems to be an event everyone is super thrilled to get into, so I took my shot and applied for 2025. The applications opened June 15th, 2024 and closed sometime in July.

I feel like they actually get back to people fairly quickly for being in or out, especially for an event that takes place in March. Several of us got emails in September saying we were waitlisted or rejected. I was included in that list for rejection. I accepted my fate, removed the convention off my list entirely and forgot about it until January 7, 2025. I got off the waitlist and was offered a corner booth for the event. It was interesting since I had applied for both Exhibitor and Artist Alley, got rejected from Artist Alley then accepted for Artist Alley through the Exhibitors application. Either way, I was pretty excited.

Since I got in so late compared to everyone else, I had to pick a hotel far from the event center. This worked out okay since realistically everything close was really expensive anyways. This convention requires liability insurance. I found out some insurances only cover events up to 500 people (USAA/Markel). ACT seems to be the go to for a reason. We had until February 15th to get it submitted. This is like an extra $50 expense. Just had to edit my application with my tax ID (I already have a Wisconsin tax ID because of MadEx earlier in 2024, so I was all set.) and submit the insurance PDF. I was a little confused initially since they wanted us to add them but it wasn't something that came up until further in the application.

Before the Event & Setup
Stuff about load in and setup

The Event Itself
How was it by day

What Worked & What Did Not
Well tbd

Conclusion
TBD

The Details (TLDR)

Event: Anime Milwaukee (AMKE) 2025
Dates: March 7-9, 2025
Location: Baird Center,  400 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53203
Hours: Friday 1pm-8pm, Saturday 10am-7pm & Sunday 10am-4pm CST
Total Vendors: TBD 
Attendance: TBD
Travelworthy: TBD
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Booth Cost: $372.27
Total Sales: $TBD (this is before all costs are taken out)
Transaction Fees: $TBD
Taxes: $TBD
Total Profit: $TBD