Craft fair booth decorating ideas

Fall of 2012 marked our first experience as an art vendor, at Cooper Young Festival in Memphis, TN. Over the years, we’ve padded our resume with quite a few more shows and experimented with a LOT of trial and error on our vendor booth layout and setup. We’ve learned a lot, both from our own experiences and from looking to other vendors for inspiration. Today, we’re going to share with you our top 16 ideas for selling at art festivals, craft fairs and indie markets. These tips can be summed…

Illustrations of 6 common craft booth designs and layouts to help you plan an effective art fair display.

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Don't waste time like I did. Based on my 10 years of craft fair experience, these are my top 5 craft show MUST HAVES. (Plus lots of free tips & tricks!)

Article that details three different ways to figure out how much inventory to take to a craft show.

Vendor Based Businesses (vendor booth businesses) are the perfect solution for small business owners who don’t have the ability - or possibly desire - to manage a brick-and-mortar storefront. Danielle Kaminski Made By Danielle

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This is one thing that can boost sales after a craft show is over. But most vendors ignore it.

As soon as I start talking about craft fair setups, people want to talk about pricing, signage, and how to arrange your tables. But the part of your table doing the most good (or the most damage), is often the biggest thing on your table: Your tablecloth. The tablecloth is probably the last thing the vendor thinks about, but it is the first thing the customer sees. It is the background for your whole display.