Top Tips for Craft Fair Go-ers

Craft fairs are amazing events that showcase your products. It’s likely that there will be a range of craft fairs throughout the year, so if you are selling something beautiful or you’re selling new trinkets that you’ve made by hand, then attending craft fairs are going to make a big difference to your new bottom line.

If you’ve chosen an event and you’ve booked and you’ve even started designing your craft store, you need to be considering some other things for going to craft fairs. It’s always worth researching the event so that you know what other types of store holders will be there so that you can figure out ways to stand out beyond them. Let’s take a look at some top tips for craft fair go-ers.

1. Think about the finances. You should always look at the cost of attending the craft fair versus the profit that you could potentially make. You have to think about getting insurance for craft sellers, promotional items and even a tracker for your outgoings. You have to remember that you have to pay for the attendance fee or the hiring of the stall, the transport costs to get all of your stuff there, and the cost of the materials for the things that you make. This needs to be able to balance out and hopefully make you a profit. Sometimes craft fairs are attended because people want to get their name out there first. So even if this is your very first fare and you don’t make much of A profit, it can be helpful to at least try.
2. Don’t forget to buy insurance. The organizer of a craft fair is usually going to have some kind of insurance, but as you are going to be somebody behind the desk of a stall, you need to make sure you have public indemnity insurance. This protects you if a third party makes a claim against you for any damage or injury that you are found responsible for. You should make sure that you have insurance cover for your projects and equipment in case they get damaged. During the craft fair, it’s also important to make sure that your insurance does cover event cancellation because then you won’t be out of pocket.
3. Head to Facebook. A great way to make sure that you are going to be visible at a craft fair is to get yourself on Facebook and let people know that you’re going to be there. People can only attend the craft fair if they know that it’s happening, so you need to get out there and start advertising you’re part of the craft fair. Doing this will enable people to see where you’re going to be and when you’re going to be there so that they can come down and buy your product. This way they can view your full product range in their own time.

Affairs are exciting and you can make your one a success if you follow the tips above.

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