Preparing for a Craft Fair

Just because our mom showed our art to her friends or stick our art work on the refrigerator does not mean our art work is professional enough for other people to buy. There is a bias judgment where our family is concern and other people not related to us will have a more objective judgment to our work.

In order for us to know how other judge an art work, it is best to look around shows. You will see what kind of work other people considers as professional and will buy that product or art. At some shows they even have juries that will check if your work is worthy to be shown in their show.

For beginners or first timers in creating a small business with their art works it might be overwhelming to attend an indoor art show for our first time. It would be best to attend some craft shows first. You will get the chance to talk with other vendors and check out where they think is the best craft show to attend.

Be sure to do you homework before attending a craft show, research on information like how much the space fee is and other information that you will need to factor in. Information like travel costs, shipping costs, cost of a table (if this is not included in the space fee), banner and the booth itself and don’t forget the materials costs to decorate your display. Having these information will help make a more realistic budget.

For any beginners it is also good to keep in mind to spend less or start of with a lower investment. Because you will still need to establish your name and create customers and while you are doing this your sales may not be as you expected. Having lower investments are easier to break even and less disappointing in the end.

The best way to lower you investment is to borrow from other vendors their booth instead of making one. It will also be cheaper if you can share a booth with someone. You can do this until the time you get a hang of how things work.

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