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Try Multiple craft shows to expand your business

If you are ready, to take your arts and crafts business to the next level... try multiple craft shows!

If you have found that perfect craft, or an assortment that sells, and you feel you are ready to go big or go home!.. then try multiple craft shows..

This is where you employ enough people to create your QUALITY crafts (don't lose the quality while trying to get big).. and then sign up for a couple or maybe more craft shows in different areas at the same time. You could try craft shows a couple of towns apart?.. You need a good team, of people willing to setup and take down your booth at craft shows, and promote and sell your product.

You will need to work out a deal with them, where they either get a hourly paid rate, or a percentage of what they sell. Its when you get to this point, that you need to know your profit margins and your expenses, to make sure you are making enough, but if you are, then you could be selling in different towns on the same weekend, therefore liquidating a lot more of your product for cash... making crafts for cash!

You will also double or more the amount of people you will be giving your business flyers and cards out to, and possibly signing up for your newsletter!

This is also a good and fast way to find out which shows are worth applying for the next year.. go ahead and try multiple craft shows!