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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
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
Artsfest '13 Fine Arts Festival
Dowell, Maryland
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Art In The Park
Kalispell, Montana
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Boardwalk Arts and Craft Festival
Dillon Montana
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Blackberry Arts Festival
Coos Bay, Oregon
by Shasta McLaughlin
Autumn Festival-An Arts and Crafts Affair
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
by Shasta McLaughlin
Made In Montana Marketplace
Great Falls, Montana
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Under the Big Sky Arts & Crafts Festival
Missoula, Montana
by Shasta McLaughlin
The Big One Art & Craft Fair -Fargo ND
Visit The Big One Art and Craft Fair in Fargo, North Dakota happening Oct. 19 & 20, 2013.
Arts and crafts festival vendors contact Stacy and Lisa Frank at 701-837-6059 to reserve your booth now. Please thank them for listing this show with The Extravaganza Craft News.
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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.
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by Shasta McLaughlin
The Minot Big One Art & Craft Fair
Minot, North Dakota
Visit The Minot Big One Art & Craft Fair in Minot, ND happening Nov. 1 & 2, 2013.
Arts and crafts festival vendors contact Stacy & Lisa Frank at 701-837-6059 to reserve your booth now. Please thank them for listing their art and craft fair with The Extravaganza Craft News.
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by Shasta McLaughlin
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by Shasta McLaughlin
It's hard to find time to make handmade crafts for a craft show booth. It's even harder to find time to market and sell crafts. How do you find time to make and sell crafts?
Make Time for Crafts by Saving Time
One way to make time for crafts is to save time doing the things you have to do every day. A time saving trick I learned a long time ago was to put dinner in the crockpot (a.k.a. slow cooker) as I was making breakfast in the morning.
I then cleaned up all the dishes from preparing both meals.
by Shasta McLaughlin
What is a Farmers Market?
A farmers market is a good place to buy or sell whole organic food, baked goods and handmade crafts. Markets are often held on Saturdays early spring to late fall and there are some Sunday markets. Some farmer's markets are held on weekdays and most are not open on holidays.
What Handmade Crafts Sell at Farmer's Markets?
Buyers at farmers' markets often come expecting to spend a few dollars on organic fruits and vegetables, plants and a few crafts.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Pricing Crafts Correctly Sells Crafts
As far as pricing your handmade crafts go you need something called a loss leader.
A loss leader is a handcrafted item or a few items sold at a loss. They get buyers of art through the door to your craft show booth or online craft store and getting out their wallet. After they've gotten out their wallet they are easier to sell to.
Keep a few items as loss leaders, adjust some of your prices to be more inline with the real market price (for crafts similar to yours) but not at it, and adjust the majority of the items to be real market price. Art & Craft Business Tips, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Art Show Vendors, Arts and Crafts, Craft Show Businesses, 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 Crafts, Marketing Handcrafted Jewelry, Pricing Crafts to Sell
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Packaging Your Craft Show Products
Need ideas for packaging crafts at craft fairs?
Packaging crafts has always been a simple concept to me it never occurred to me to share. This wonderful post inspired me to share this packaging idea. Most scrapbookers and rubber stampers probably use this concept already. How many of you have thought to use it to package your handcrafted arts and crafts for sale?
by Shasta McLaughlin
Inexpensive Craft Show Booth Display Ideas
I found these inexpensive craft show booth displays ideas while researching my blog. I thought you might want to see them.
http://blah-to-tada.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-craft-fair-ideas.html
Thanks blah to TADA! for sharing.
by Shasta McLaughlin
I just found this fun tutorial for handcrafted Barefoot Sandals and I wanted to share it with all of you. I thought it might give jewelry artists some more ideas for their handcrafted jewelry.
Otherwise it's just plain fun for those of us who want to run around barefoot this summer.
by Shasta McLaughlin
 I want to thank Heather and her home economics class (especially Rebecca) for sharing this very interesting resource.
Sewing Techniques for the Blind from National Federation of the Blind of Nebraska.
by Shasta McLaughlin
What does Real Estate have to do with selling arts and crafts?
The way I see it your art or craft show booth is kind of like trying to sell a house. If you try to sell an empty house people can’t see in their minds what the house will look like when it’s all finished, painted, furnished, and decorated. You will also have a hard time trying to sell a house that is full of clutter, people can only imagine that the rest of the house hasn’t been taken care of well. They will see that the house will be too much work and cost too much money.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Facebook Page Helps Your Art or Craft
Business Know Who Your Customers Are
Have you ever wondered exactly who your craft show customers are? Who to target in your advertising? How to find out if your target market is male or female, what age they are, or where they are located? Ever wondered who was most likely to walk into your craft show booth?
Your art and craft based Facebook business page can help.
First of all if you don't have a Facebook business page I suggest getting one. Art & Craft Business Tips, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Arts and Crafts, Craft Show Businesses, Craft Show Promoters, Facebook, 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 Crafts, Marketing Handcrafted Jewelry, Tips for Craft Show Promoters, Tools to Save Time or Money, Using Social Media Sites to Sell Arts and Crafts
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Want to get your Art or Crafts noticed and mentioned by Celebrities?
You know those swag bags that celebrities get at The Oscars, Emmys, and The Golden Globes?
Artisan Group helps you by getting your handcrafted artwork into them.
Be sure your work is high quality as you wouldn't want a celebrity to pick up your piece for pictures and have it fall apart. Make your packaging exquisite as presentation can make a big impression.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Difference Between Creating Interest in Your Arts and Crafts
and Getting People To Buy Your Crafts
To have a successful full time business selling arts and crafts (defined as making enough income to support yourself or your family without having a part time job) two things must happen.
- There must be enough people interested in buying your arts and crafts.
- You must be able to persuade people interested in your art to buy.
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by Shasta McLaughlin
How to Sell Art Online
Take Better Pictures
When selling art online little is more important than quality of your pictures.
You won't get many sales if the quality of the pictures make it hard for the buyer to see the quality of your art or craft. Worse yet bad pictures can make the buyer imagine your art is poor quality because you didn't care if the photos were low quality.
Taking pictures of handcrafted art is something that overwhelms many artists and crafters. Art & Craft Business Tips, Art & Craft Supplies, Art & Craft Vendor Hints and Tips, Arts and Crafts, Craft Show Businesses, Creating a Craft Website, Improve Sales of Arts and Crafts, Increasing Profits from Handcrafted Arts & Crafts, Make Money Selling Arts and Crafts, Marketing Crafts, Marketing Handcrafted Jewelry, Other Ways to Sell Arts and Crafts, Sell Crafts Online, Tools to Save Time or Money
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Producing Vegetables and Crafts
For Farmer's Markets
For all of our Farmer's market vendors who love to have all the books on gardening but don't have space to keep every one there is a new solution.
There are tons of free Gardening Books for Kindle
by Shasta McLaughlin
Love to knit, crochet, bake, garden crafts, create home decor, make handcrafted jewelry, do paper crafts, quilt or sew?
Then Craftsy is for you! Looks like a lot of fun and has some deals on craft supplies to.
Check it out at http://www.craftsy.com/!
by Shasta McLaughlin
101 Reasons Your Customer Should Buy Handmade
Customers at craft shows often balk at the price of handcrafted works of art. One reason is they are used to going to Walmart and buying imports at half the price.
Help your customers realize the value of buying arts and crafts by sharing this article 101 Reasons to Buy Handmade.
by Shasta McLaughlin
Reasons Art Festival Customer Won’t Buy
Customers won’t buy art from you if:
- They don’t know where to find your handmade craft.
- They aren’t prepared to buy now. For instance they weren’t expecting to see a handcrafted product they wanted so they don’t have money right now.
- They don’t know what you are selling.
- You aren’t selling what they want.
- Your handcrafted art is hard to get, the wrong price or poor quality.
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by Shasta McLaughlin
Rocky Mountain Arts & Crafts Festival
Don’t forget to to visit Rocky Mountain Arts & Crafts Festival in Billings, Montana this Mar. 10 & 11, 2012.
Handcrafted arts and crafts festival vendors contact Doug at 406-696-6585 to reserve your show 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 Montana each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at
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