Arts & Crafts Shows: 12 Secrets Every Artist Vendor Should Know

By Michael Delaware

If you're an Arts and Crafts Show Vendor who wants to know the secrets of what successful artists use to become a success, and earn a profitable living with Arts & Crafts shows, then you're about to discover how to achieve real financial independence right now!

In fact, if you want to know how to run a profitable Arts & Crafts show business, then this new eBook - "Arts & Crafts Shows: 12 Secrets Every Artist Vendor Should Know” - gives you the answers to 10 important questions and challenges every Arts and Crafts Show Vendors faces, including:

- How do you launch a successful living as a professional artist vendor?
- How can you survive selling your creations at an Arts and Crafts Show?
- How can you make every show profitable?
- What are the secrets of viability at an Arts and Crafts Show?
- How do you expand your business beyond just the Arts and Crafts show?
- What are some of the key ways top artists are making residual income?
- How do you maximize profits from an Arts and Crafts show?
... and more!

So, if you're serious about wanting to achieve financial freedom and independence through the Arts and Crafts show business, and you want to know how to run a profitable Arts & Crafts show booth, then you need to read "Arts & Crafts Shows: 12 Secrets Every Artist Vendor Should Know" right now, because Arts & Crafts Show expert, Michael Delaware, will reveal to you how every Arts and Crafts show artist vendor, regardless of experience level, can avoid these mistakes and succeed - Today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Delaware
• Release date: Aug 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301150984

Michael Delaware

Michael Delaware is a Phoenix, Arizona native who now resides in Battle Creek, Michigan with his wife Margarita. He also lived in Georgia for 15 years before moving to Michigan. He is a member of the National Association of Realtors, The Council of Residential Specialists, and the Michigan Association of Realtors. He is also an active member of the Battle Creek Area Association of Realtors where he was awarded 'Realtor of the Year' in 2010, and served as Board President in 2011. As an author, his works include numerous non-fiction books on real estate, sales management, marketing and other self-help topics. He has also written and published fiction stories for children all independently published by the: ‘If, And or But’ Publishing Company.

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Arts & Crafts Shows:

12 Secrets Every

Artist Vendor

Should Know

Michael Delaware

Published by Michael Delaware and 'If, And or But Publishing'

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Copyright © 2013 Michael Delaware

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Introduction

Secret #1: Find Your Niche!

Secret #2: Organize for Survival!

Secret #3: Visibility = Viability!

Secret #4: Live the Part!

Secret #5: Show Them & 'Wow' Them!

Secret #6: Draw Them, Direct Them & Route Them!

Secret #7: Sell Them!

Secret #8: Outstanding Customer Service Magic!

Secret #9: Capture Them!

Secret #10: Contact Them!

Secret #11: Choose Good Shows!

Secret #12: Record, Remember & Repeat!

Summary

Useful Links

About the Author

Publisher

This book is dedicated to

Arts & Crafts show vendors worldwide

who earn a living selling their

creations fueled by the

never-ending power of imagination.

Introduction

My inspiration for writing this book to help Artist Vendors was brought about by many years of traveling around participating and also being on the organizing committees for different arts and crafts shows and festivals.  I have participated in such shows as an artist vendor, a non-artist vendor, a volunteer and for several years as a chairman of a festival committee. 

In fact, I have taken part in Arts and Crafts shows in various capacities for over two decades in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.  I have also visited Arts and Crafts shows as an observant customer in numerous other States over the years, as I have traveled around.  I have a personal love for a traditional Arts and Crafts show, and feel it is an important part of North American Culture, even though I have also visited such shows in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom in my travels abroad.

As crazy as it sounds, I once participated in a three day weekend selling books on the streets of New York City as part of a sales training program.  I can tell you there is no better place in the world to experiment with huge volumes of people than in the Big Apple.  One can literally see thousands of people in a day, and it never slows down.

In the course of being actively engaged and observant of Arts and Crafts shows over the years, I began to separate the good from the bad, and even the ugly in terms of vendor mistakes, especially the huge ones that just leave one scratching ones head saying 'Really? You did that?' or ‘You are doing that? And you paid how much for this booth?’

As with any business, there is a measure of success and an amount of failure as one makes mistakes and sometimes pays a painfully expensive tuition.  Sometimes being an artist vendor is a bit like the blind leading the blind, as inexperienced people jump into the business and consult other inexperienced people, and ultimately lose a lot of money and get a bitter taste about the business, their art work and even customers.

Failures build upon failures, and many a talented artist loses their passion and ambition for success simply because they did not have anyone directing them on how to make good business decisions, and become a success as an Artist Vendor.  One survives as an artist by selling ones creations, and learning some business secrets of success.  If one does not learn the skills to do this effectively, ones art or craftsmanship never leaves the realm of being simply an expensive ‘hobby’.

So I thought it might be a good idea to share some ideas on what successful artist vendors do, and offer insight into steps that a new artist vendor might take to make their journey more success than failure.

This book is entirely drawn from my own experiences, and I do not expect to cover every single possible successful action or scenario in this one book.  As with any writing experience, what one author considers important may not be at the same level of importance to another author or reader for that matter.  One should always seek out multiple viewpoints on any subject one studies, and this book is no exception.

I have endeavored to offer ideas that I have seen proven to be useful, and also ones that I have seen others use even more effectively than myself.  Some of these ideas you might discover you are already doing, and others I hope you will find are new and fresh and will become helpful to you in your arts and crafts vendor business.

It is my sincere desire to see all arts and crafts show vendors prosper and achieve success.  I have always had a warm spot in my heart, as well as a profound respect for those that make this their living.  They are free in their travels from show to show, and they meet all kinds of people in many different regions selling their artistic creations.  It is a life not without toil, and challenges, but a life surrounded with beauty and creation that one cannot help but admire.

I considered in writing this book that if I perhaps can help make the life of an artist vendor easier, this wonderful slice of any culture of any nation will continue for the next generations to come. Arts and Crafts shows are a rich and vibrant part of any countries culture, and those that participate in them as artist vendors are some of the most dynamic and resilient people you can ever meet.  They make a living out of selling their own artistic creations fueled with imagination, and of that there can be no more exciting endeavor.  Their very existence brightens the lives of so many people they come in contact with as their beautiful art is taken into the homes and lives of the people who buy them.

It is my sincere hope that the information I present here in this book will be of use, and result in the future prosperity of those who avail themselves of it.  Some of the best friends I have ever made have been my fellow artist vendors at arts and crafts shows.  So with this book I raise a glass of ambitious dreams and hope, and say ‘Cheers’ to your continued success!

Secret #1: Find Your Niche!

As an artist, you develop a skill at a particular craft, be it painting, sculpting, drawing, carving, woodwork, sewing or any number of other mediums.  You take your creations to an arts