First time vendor and want to know what to expect when you join your first craft fair? Read through concise tips and with a FREE Vendor Checklist.
The June magazine is live and it's 98 pages long this month! :-o It's been an interesting few weeks preparing
Numbers 10, 11 and 15 will change EVERYTHING! Tips and tricks YOU need to know as a beginner craft fair vendor.
Newly designed grid panels are strong, durable, lightweight & easily portable Perfect for any retail space, trade shows, pop-up stores, craft fairs Works great as a home storage solution in your kitchen, garage, craft room, basement, closets, etc DOUBLE WIRE CONSTRUCTION – Whether you need a memo or notice board, an organizer for hanging garments in a display, or a delightful photo rack of your kids, the double wires provide the strength and durability you need
Get the inside scoop on all the little known tricks of the trade for increasing sales and building repeat business. How to design and work a booth that rocks!
Selling at craft fairs can be a blast! Why add to the cost of setting up your booth when you can just make your booth better by being craftier?
Collapsible Market Stall: Build a unique and collapsible market stall for around $100. Use it for your booth at the farmer's market or craft fair, or to provide a little shade over whatever you're into, from bluegrass band to lemonade stand!
Your complete guide to making money at craft fairs. If you've ever wondered why your booth isn't busier, you'll discover all the answers here.
Get the inside scoop on all the little known tricks of the trade for increasing sales and building repeat business. How to design and work a booth that rocks!
Even if you make a majority of your craft sales in an online shop, craft shows are still big money makers for most creative businesses. So, do you need an easy to follow checklist to get started with show events? We’ve got them all for you from application until after the show.
What to bring to craft fairs - Everything you need, so you can be well organized, prepared, and calm. Don't forget anything important at home with this craft show supplies list.
Double check your craft fair display for these Five "Dos and Don't" that could make or break your sales for the fair. It doesn't take much for someone to walk right past your booth, or for them to be drawn in to an inviting space. Give these things a try at your next fair and let me know your results!
Do you want to make money selling handmade items? Check out this list of the best sellers at craft fairs so you don't waste time or effort!
What to bring to craft fairs - Everything you need, so you can be well organized, prepared, and calm. Don't forget anything important at home with this craft show supplies list.
Craft Fair Season is upon us! Our local Carbondale, IL Farmer's Market will have it's second event of the season tomorrow. In honor of this lovely weather and new creations, I created this document below. If you click on it, you should be able to view it in 8.5" x 11" and just print as many as you need! How To Use: After printing the page(s), punch holes and insert into a 3-ring binder. The prettier the binder, the better, since your customers will also see this binder at times. You may also want to keep some looseleaf notebook paper or similar in the binder to record custom orders and customer/vendor info. Keep lots of business cards at hand too. As you sell various items, write a quick description and price on the page provided below. This makes the sale process WAY easier and more organized! Happy Crafting...
2019 Top 11 Craft Fair tips and booth layout tricks to help your vendor experience, Advice from a seasoned craft fair stager | Stampin Fool
Whether you’re vending at your local Farmers’ Market, out of state Fiber Festival, or Craft Fair, you need to bring it when it comes to an attractive booth set-up! And if you have never had a booth before, it can be little hard to get started. In this article, I’m going to show you how […]
How to display paintings at an art show. Portable art display ideas for large canvases and smaller prints, and craft booth design best practices.
When I was making Christmas dinner for the first time, I had a lot of questions for my mom. I asked how much poultry seasoning she puts in the dressing and she said: “I don’t know…until it smells like dressing”. It’s an odd way to determine how much seasoning to use, but it works. If...
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I've been pinning some great DIY ideas and now it's time to collect the 10 best display ideas and resources I've collected for this Craft Fair Checklist!
Craft Fairs are challenging. Customer relations, product display, and more must be done. Here are 7 tips to help you avoid common selling mistakes at shows.
Does the feel of your craft fair display match your products? It should. Find out why with 16 sample craft booth pictures.
Asking what to wear to a craft fair is like asking "what do I wear to work?" The answer depends on many variables. Find out how to choose the right outfit.
10 art show display ideas & photos show great ways to show paintings & prints at a craft fair. See how to use grid walls, panels & easels in an art vendor booth
Most popular easy portable display ideas for markets and craft fairs - save time and energy with these clever, eye-catching display ideas for vendors.
I am the classic over thinker/ over researcher. I google, pinterest, facebook, encyclopedia pretty much everything before I dive on in. So when I decided that I wanted to do a craft fair I read about every article out there and felt like I was pretty prepared. There was a lot of great and invaluable...
Fall of 2012 marked our first experience as an art vendor, at Cooper Young Festival in Memphis, TN. Over the years, we’ve padded our resume with quite a few more shows and experimented with a LOT of trial and error on our vendor booth layout and setup. We’ve learned a lot, both from our own experiences and from looking to other vendors for inspiration. Today, we’re going to share with you our top 16 ideas for selling at art festivals, craft fairs and indie markets. These tips can be summed up into three key categories: Booth Display, Signage/Décor and—the most important—Branding. FIRST, LET'S DIVE INTO VENDOR BOOTH DISPLAY. 1. Plan out your booth space BEFORE the day of your festival. Before we set foot at an art festival, our vendor booth is completely laid out. We measure all our display pieces (shelves, tables, etc.) and configure the space to help speed up the set up time. Plus, not all shows have the same options for booth sizes (because that would just be too easy). This year, our Cooper Young booth featured a 10’ x 15’ space, while some of our holiday shows ranged from a 6’ x 8’ space to a 10’ x 20’ double booth. It helps to lay everything out beforehand to know what will or will not fit in the allotted space. Once everything is measured, we use Adobe Illustrator to plan out the booth space, with everything to scale. We print out copies to take with us during set up, as well as email a copy to ourselves in case we lose the paper copies (it happens). Here's a look at my Adobe Illustrator artboard for our most recent Cooper Young Festival vendor booth: And here is our finished vendor booth, based on that original mock up: 2. Display vertically. When potential buyers pass your vendor booth, they’re not seeing product that is flat on tables. At least some of your work needs to be in their line of sight. One way we add height to our booth display is with these adjustable white metal shelf units we found at IKEA (shop them here). The shelves are completely adjustable and IKEA sells individual shelves, so you can add to the original four included. We switch it up depending on what art we need to display at each festival or market. In the past, we've used these custom built white-washed wood displays on rollers, which our brother built for us. We love how they look in our booth, as they mimic a more retail-style setting. However, these are rather heavy and bulky to transport. Looking for something a little more transport friendly, this year we commissioned a custom white wood peg wall. The unit breaks down into four separate pieces, so it's easy and convenient for traveling. Everything hooks together via large bolts and wing nuts, with the shelves and pegs packed separately. It's also completely adjustable, as the pegs can be configured in various ways. This wall unit is great for displaying our larger 5 panel wood pieces, which serve as great eye catchers for potential buyers walking by our vendor booth. For smaller shows, we take just two of the four wall panels, usually paired with one of the white IKEA shelf units. Bonus: extra pegs are great for hanging ornaments! Clear acrylic risers are also a great way to subtly add height and levels when displaying artwork on a table. Because they're clear, they don't take away from your displayed art. We use combinations of this 5 piece set from Displays2Go. 3. Choose display colors that will make your work pop. As you can see, for our larger display pieces (shelves, walls), we incorporate as much white as possible. Because all sides of our wood art is stained in a dark finish, the white background helps it pop. We also prefer how clean the white and neutral hues look. 4. Store and display multiple art prints. We have ALL-CAPS-STRUGGLED with how to display and store our art prints, other than stuffing them in baskets for browsing. We recently discovered these gold wire baskets from IKEA that slide on perfectly to our white IKEA shelves. They are great at storing stacks of prints! To actually display the prints, we chopped up a 4” x 4” piece of lumber and sawed angled grooves down the top. We stained them to match the color of our wood art. The art prints stand up perfectly in the grooves of the wood, which we then prop up above the wire baskets. It’s easy for buyers to see the print displayed and simply pick it up from the basket underneath for purchase. 5. Use slim Christmas trees to display holiday ornaments. During our holiday shows, our Christmas ornaments are HUGE sellers. While we use our peg wall for some ornament overflow, ornaments look best hanging on an actual Christmas tree. This also better demonstrates to potential buyers how it will look on their own tree. However, for those smaller booth spaces, a full Christmas tree takes up too much valuable real estate and just isn't practical. And some of the smaller, table-top trees aren’t known for being sturdy. Because our ornaments are on the heavier side, we've had issues with the smaller trees tipping over ... especially when buyers are trying to take the ornaments off the trees to purchase. We found a great slim Christmas tree from our local At Home. It measures only 18” in diameter but can still can hold quite a few ornaments. We re-stock throughout the show to keep the tree looking full. NEXT UP, WE HAVE BOOTH SIGNAGE/DÉCOR. 6. Emphasize your business name for potential buyers with branded signage. We have our friends over at Ella Jude to thank for this easy DIY pop-out booth sign idea. For this sign, we painted a thin piece of wood white, then transferred our logo (with our image transfer process) to both sides, though we've seen others hand paint their logo. We bought two pieces of copper pipe and an elbow joint and glued them all together to form an L-shaped corner. To hang the wood sign from the copper pipe, we spray-painted loose-leaf rings to match the copper pipe. We then use clear zip ties to attach the sign to our booth or tent. We're hoping to make an even larger version this year. For additional branded signage, we bought a large white vinyl banner with grommets and designed it to include our logo, website and social media handles. We use this when we have space available. For our outdoor art shows, such as Cooper Young, we hang the banner on the back of our tent so buyers walking down the sidewalks behind the booths can see our name. 7. Tell your story with signage. We sell handmade image transfers on wood and marble tile. The most common question we receive from customers during festivals and shows is,
Your first craft show can be nerve racking and easily be a flop if you're not prepared. Here are lessons I wish I knew when I was a beginner vendor.
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Handmade product? Check! Business cards? Check! Wicked display? Check! You'll all ready for your craft fair right? There's one thing most vendors forget.
When you hand your business card out at a craft fair, 80% of them end up in the trash. Here's how to make your business cards more effective.
So much work goes into selling at craft fairs, you shouldn't be wondering why you're not making more money. Here are the top 5 problems to fix.
I am the classic over thinker/ over researcher. I google, pinterest, facebook, encyclopedia pretty much everything before I dive on in. So when I decided that I wanted to do a craft fair I read about every article out there and felt like I was pretty prepared. There was a lot of great and invaluable...
Not only is this handy utility apron great for craft show vendors, but teachers, artists, quilters, sewists, and anyone else trying to keep their stuff together!
