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Selling Art and Crafts at Art Festivals,
Arts and Craft Shows,
Craft Fairs and Festivals
and Arts and Craft Fairs Online?
Know how to sell art and crafts at craft shows,
crafts to make, show displays, or how to sell art online?
by Shasta McLaughlin
Coast West
Pacific Beach, Washington
Don’t forget to to visit Coast West in Pacific Beach, Washington this Jun. 22 & 23, 2013.
Handcrafted arts and crafts festival vendors contact Jen at 360-591-2482 to reserve your show booth now. Remember to tell her thank you for listing his show with The Extravaganza Craft News.
Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in Washington each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at Advertise a Craft Show, Art Show Vendors, Craft Show Promoters, Craft Show Vendors, Craft Shows, Fairs, Festivals, Finding Places to Sell Arts and Crafts, Handmade Arts and Crafts, Selling Handcrafted Jewelry at Art and Craft Shows, Vendors for my Art Festival
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Did you hear the news … They finally caught me! I’m going to jail … but it’s for a great cause — MDA!
Shasta McLaughlin of Extravaganza Crafts has been asked to go to "LockUp" to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association on April 11, 2013.
Muscular dystrophy is a disease where the muscles of the body get weaker and weaker. The Muscular Dystrophy Association raises funds for research, medical treatments and therapy, wheelchairs, and for kids with muscular dystrophy to attend MDA Summer Camp.
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by Shasta McLaughlin
CHUN Capitol Hill People's Fair
Denver, Colorado
Don’t forget to to visit CHUN Capitol Hill People's Fair in Denver, Colorado June 1 & 2, 2013.
Arts fair and crafts festival vendors contact Nicole Anderson at 303-830-1651 to reserve your booth now. Remember to tell her thank you for listing this juried art and craft show with The Extravaganza Craft News.
Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in Colorado each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at www.
by Shasta McLaughlin
How to Advertise A Craft Show
 Advertise your craft show to two groups of people, artists and crafters also known as craft show vendors, and art and craft buyers.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Boardwalk Arts and Craft Festival
Dillon Montana
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by Shasta McLaughlin
How Often To Post
To Your Craft Fair Facebook Page?
Got a Facebook business page for your craft fair business? Selling handcrafted items online using Facebook?
I've noticed the more I post to The Extravaganza Craft Facebook business page the more my reach and talking about it insights increase. Consistency is also a key factor as when I don't post often enough or every day my reach drops significantly.
How often should I post on my handmade craft Facebook business page?
by Shasta McLaughlin
Jeffco Holiday Craft Fair
Golden Colorado
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Help I'm An Art Vendor.
I Can't Find Your Fair, Festival, or Show
Help I'm An Art Vendor. I Can't Find Your Fair, Festival, or Show.
Okay, I am not an artist looking to reserve a booth for your show but...
I do have a newsletter for artists and craft vendors and search the Internet for shows often.
Many times I find show listings online for shows that happened in the past. There is no contact information for the show promoter, applications for next year, or information on next year's dates.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Commonwheel Artists 39th Annual Labor
Day Arts & Crafts Festival
Manitou Springs CO
Visit Commonwheel Artists 39th Annual Labor Day Arts & Crafts Festival in Manitou Springs, Colorado happening August 31 to Sep. 2, 2013.
Contact Julia Wright at 719-577-7700 to reserve your booth for this Juried Art Show now. Please thank her for listing this show with The Extravaganza Craft News.
by Shasta McLaughlin
The Big One Art & Craft Fair -Bismarck ND
Don’t forget to to visit The Big One Art and Craft Fair in Bismarck, North Dakota on Nov. 23 & 24, 2013.
Arts and crafts festival vendors contact Stacy and Lisa Frank at 701-837-6059 to reserve your booth now. Remember to tell him thank you for listing his show with The Extravaganza Craft News.
Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in North Dakota each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at Advertise a Craft Show, Art Show Vendors, Arts and Crafts, Call for Artists Qualifications & Applications, Call to Artists, Craft Show Vendors, Craft Shows, Craft Trade Show Booth, Doing the Art Show Circuit, Fairs, Festivals, Finding Places to Sell Arts and Crafts, Handmade Arts and Crafts, Make Money Selling Arts and Crafts, Other Ways to Sell Arts and Crafts, Selling Handcrafted Jewelry at Art and Craft Shows
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Facebook Giveaway Guidelines
 Facebook has its own guidelines when it comes to giveaways. This is very important because if you do not follow their rules your Facebook page could be deleted. To put it simply, Facebook does not want to have anything to do with your giveaway.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Christmas Moment Gift Fair -Kennewick WA
Visit Christmas Moments in Kennewick, Washington happening Nov. 16 to 18, 2012.
Contact LaVette Mehess at 971-600-3281 to reserve your booth for this Un-Juried Art and Craft Show now. Please thank her for listing this show with The Extravaganza Craft News.
Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in Washington each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at Advertise a Craft Show, Art Show Vendors, Call for Artists Qualifications & Applications, Call to Artists, Craft Show Businesses, Craft Show Promoters, Craft Show Vendors, Craft Shows, Fairs, Festivals, Handmade Arts and Crafts, Selling Handcrafted Jewelry at Art and Craft Shows, Vendors for my Art Festival
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Are You Using Pinterest
To Sell Your Arts And Crafts?
Who Are Pinterest Users?
Pinterest users are generally young females busily pinning and repinning images of hand crafted works of art to their favorite boards. Females are known for being purchasers for their families making this the perfect place to meet your target market.
Sign up now according to the brainyard
by Shasta McLaughlin
Ever had a craft show that seemed like a total failure, like you had totally wasted your time and money attending it?
Ensure every art festival will be a roaring success.
8 easy things you can do are listed below.
- Send out information about the festival you will be attending by mail, email, blog, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn to your friends, family, and acquaintances. Send an occasional reminder.
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Visit Fair Market in Broadus, Montana happening Aug. 10 & 11, 2012.
Contact Sarah McGill at 406-436-2778 to reserve your booth for this Un-Juried Art & Craft Show now. Please thank her for listing this show with The Extravaganza Craft News.
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Is Facebook and Social Media Selling Art?
Social media is working for my art business but...
I have gone to where my customers (artists and crafters) are on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. and that is where I post.
Search keywords related to your product in the Facebook search box.
Want to know how many people like fine art? Type in fine art in the Facebook search box and go to fine arts-interests.
Check out your competitions pages from the search above. Advertise a Craft Show, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Art Show Vendors, Craft Show Businesses, Craft Show Promoters, Craft Show Vendors, Facebook, Improve Sales of Arts and Crafts, LinkedIn, Make Money Selling Arts and Crafts, Marketing Crafts, Marketing Handcrafted Jewelry, MySpace, Other Ways to Sell Arts and Crafts, Sell Crafts Online, Twitter, Using Social Media Sites to Sell Arts and Crafts
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Simple Inexpensive Ways to Collect Art Festival Customers Contact Information
 Are you collecting contact information of people who buy your one of a kind works of art, why not?
Collecting customers contact information is simple and makes it easier to make sales increasing profits.
Here's how:
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by Shasta McLaughlin
18 Things to Add to Your 30 Day Plan
to Greater Craft Show Profitability
I’ve told you the things I did on My 30 Day Plan to Greater Profitability and I promised that I would let you know some things you can do to increase the profits your art or craft show business receives.
- Draw a marketing map that shows how the people you meet at craft shows are going to move from cold contacts, to warm prospects, to hot buyers. Include on your marketing map all of your sales tools including your craft show booth, your fliers, business cards, website, blog, social networking, advertising, and more.
by Shasta McLaughlin
How to Add Art and Craft Buyers
To Mailing Lists
First read Why Add Art and Craft Buyers to Mailing Lists.
Collect Art Buyers Contact Information
Decide what information you need to mail and email your customers useful information that will encourage them to buy your one of kind handcrafted art work. Information that is generally collected includes:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Address
- City
- State
- Zip Code
- Phone Number
- Email Address
- Birth Date
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by Shasta McLaughlin
How to Get Art and Craft
Vendors to My Show
 There are several ways to advertise your art and craft event to vendors. Find the most effective ways and stick with them. Test and record results of your advertising to know what was most effective.
The best advertising reaches your target audience.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Advertising Art Festivals is Everybody’s Business
I struggled as craft show promoter figuring out the perfect mix of advertising for shows. Nothing is guaranteed with cable TV, internet, and satellite radio advertising has become more difficult. My advice to vendors and art festival promoters alike is this:
Advertising craft shows is everybody’s business.
Artists and crafters remember the more advertising promoters do, the more festival booths cost.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Are Art and Craft Show Reviews
Worth Their Weight in Gold?
 Attending an art fair a few years ago I visited with artists and crafters. We discussed if I should include art and craft show reviews in The Extravaganza Craft News.
The positive to artist and crafter show reviews is craft show vendors don’t get suckered into bad craft shows where the promoter is not doing their best to advertise.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Recently I’ve been working to make my business more profitable each and every day. Today it occurred to me that I should share with you how I plan to do that.
Week one I worked on catching up on left over unfinished projects from previous weeks to prepare for my 30 days of greater profitability. As usual I accomplished some of the things I intended to do, did some things I planned to do later early, and didn’t accomplish some of the plan.
Week two I learned new things about my email marketing to keep my messages from being flagged as spam. Advertise a Craft Show, Art & Craft Business Tips, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Craft Show Businesses, Craft Show Promoters, Documents and Craft Business Forms, Handmade Arts and Crafts, How to Make Art Shows Better, Increasing Profits from Handcrafted Arts & Crafts, Make Money Selling Arts and Crafts, Marketing Crafts, Marketing Handcrafted Jewelry, Organize an Art Workshop or Studio, Press Releases for Crafters
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by Shasta McLaughlin
One day I was riding in my sisters car. The roads were slick and the car slid off the road into a deep snowbank. The car was very stuck and trying to drive it out did no good. Along came a car with 5 guys in it. They couldn’t pull the car out using their car. They all got out and stood at different points around my sisters car then lifted up her car and put it back on the road.
One guy couldn’t have lifted the car alone, but together the 5 of them easily moved it.
Business is like lifting heavy objects. Advertise a Craft Show, Art & Craft Business Tips, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Craft Show Businesses, Craft Show Customer Service, Craft Show Vendors, Handmade Arts and Crafts, How to Make Art Shows Better, Improve Sales of Arts and Crafts, Increasing Profits from Handcrafted Arts & Crafts, Make Money Selling Arts and Crafts, Marketing Handcrafted Jewelry, Other Ways to Sell Arts and Crafts
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Super Bowl Ads for Your Arts and Craft Show Business
How many of you watched the Super Bowl just for the advertisements? Do you know how much advertisers paid to have their ad displayed during the Super Bowl?
I admit I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, not even one second, not even one ad. I’m sorry if this upsets you.
I almost missed this opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the big boys and use it to help my art and craft business grow.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Recently I’ve been working to make my craft business more profitable each and every day. Today it occurred to me that I should share with you how I plan to do that.
Week one I worked on catching up on left over unfinished crafts and business projects from previous weeks to prepare for my 30 days of greater profitability. As usual I accomplished some of the things I intended to do, did some things I planned to do later early, and didn’t accomplish some of the plan.
Week two I learned new things about my email marketing to keep my messages from being flagged as spam. Advertise a Craft Show, Art & Craft Business Tips, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Craft Show Promoters, Craft Show Vendors, Documents and Craft Business Forms, Handmade Arts and Crafts, How to Make Art Shows Better, Increasing Profits from Handcrafted Arts & Crafts, Make Money Selling Arts and Crafts, Marketing Crafts, Marketing Handcrafted Jewelry, Organize an Art Workshop or Studio
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Ways to Use Facebook
to Sell More Arts and Crafts
Facebook is a great place to drive art and craft sales when your posts are providing value to the reader, but will harm your reputation done incorrectly.
Being a professional artist or crafter is having an idea, talent, and skill and developing that into a business. It's learning proper ways of marketing those skills and when done properly any business can succeed to some degree of success.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Don’t forget to to visit the Commonwheel Artists 38th Annual Labor Day Arts & Crafts Festival in Manitou Springs, CO this Sep. 1 to 3, 2012
Handcrafted arts and crafts festival vendors contact Julia Wright at 719-577-7700 to reserve your show booth now. Remember to tell her thank
you for listing her show with The Extravaganza Craft News.
Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in Montana each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at www. Advertise a Craft Show, Art Show Vendors, Call for Artists Qualifications & Applications, Call to Artists, Craft Show Promoters, Craft Show Vendors, Craft Shows, Fairs, Festivals, Finding Places to Sell Arts and Crafts, Handmade Arts and Crafts, Press Releases for Crafters, Vendors for my Art Festival
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by Shasta McLaughlin
I have an account on Twitter with 800 followers mostly artists and crafters. Each of them has several to several thousand followers mostly people who buy the arts and crafts they produce.
What does this mean for your Fair, Festival or Craft Show?
If you are not on Twitter you are missing a huge opportunity to build a loyal following of artists and crafters who are potential vendors for your shows as well as missing the potential customers that buy those crafters products.
What is Twitter? It is a place people get together and share bite size bits of information about themselves, their business, and things they find interesting.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Recently I’ve been working to make my business more profitable each and every day. Today it occurred to me that I should share with you how I plan to do that.
- Day 1-Set a goal to do something to make my business more profitable each day for 1 month.
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Creating a Marketing Plan
For Your Craft Show Business
People usually require 7 or more contacts with an artist or handcrafted business to become comfortable with them.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Use LinkedIn to Build Your
Art or Craft Show Business
LinkedIn connected me with many professional artists and crafters.
I love when artists ask questions I never thought to ask, I learn from the answers they receive. It’s a great place to learn from those who are successfully selling their arts and crafts.
I checked out LinkedIn this morning and came across this article on using this professional networking tool effectively. Advertise a Craft Show, Art & Craft Business Tips, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Art Show Vendors, Craft Show Promoters, Craft Show Vendors, LinkedIn, Marketing Crafts, Organize an Art or Craft Show, Other Ways to Sell Arts and Crafts, Sell Crafts Online, Tips for Craft Show Promoters, Using Social Media Sites to Sell Arts and Crafts, Wholesale Art Shows
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Reasons to Stay In Touch With Your Craft Show Customer
 Happy Independence Day! I’m grateful for this nation and all the freedoms that we enjoy.
I was writing to my customers, artists and crafters, wishing them Happy 4th. I realized I should write a quick note for every holiday and include them in my auto-responders (I can set the day they go out so they will deliver automatically). Advertise a Craft Show, Art & Craft Business Tips, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Art Show Vendors, Art Storage Solutions, Craft Show Businesses, Craft Show Promoters, Craft Show Vendors, Improve Sales of Arts and Crafts, Increasing Profits from Handcrafted Arts & Crafts, Make Money Selling Arts and Crafts, Marketing Crafts, Marketing Handcrafted Jewelry, Selling Handcrafted Jewelry at Art and Craft Shows
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