The Mission Federal ArtWalk in San Diego does a terrific job of promotion and follows all the rules of solid social media outreach. They collect emails from visitors to their website and send out interesting emails through out the year. I love this p
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Hi, for the pros, I just want to know if its better to buy the insurance premium being reccommended by jazzfest ($140) for 3 days, or to seek my own insurance. It is a requirement for participation in the festival. Thanks
Harrison.
Read more…After applying to a show the organizer sent me an email saying "You will get set up info closer to the show". Right then I assumed I had been accepted but just yesterday morning she emailed me back asking if I had sent her the check because jewelry s
Read more…We have been Roam Data folks for several years, going thru First Data for processing. The best features are how secure and fast, turn around time to our checking account and great customer service ( for when you are so brain dead you can't remember y
Read more…How do shows establish their deadlines? I know at Arts, Beats & Eats we'd look at the Long's Park deadline and talk about being before or after it, but we really never acted on that, but trading emails today with someone (nameless) dropped this infor
Read more…I am sure many of you were aware of the big news story from last week when it was reported that the Susan G. Komen Foundation had stopped grants to Planned Parenthood. Social media went crazy as well as the rest of the media covering this story.
This
Read more…I've been using QuickBooks Pro 2007 since, well, 2007. Having a software background you would think that I would like QBP, but I hate it. And now, to compound my annoyance I cannot import files from my bank, they only support the 2010 and later fil
Read more…Hello,
This might be directed only at Canadians on this site, but I am hoping some Americans also know about this. What is needed by an artist crossing the border to do an art show? I am going to be driving to all of my shows in the US and will be co
Read more…I posted something similar to this earlier today ---behind a question about Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival and decided I needed to post this by itself. Hope I'm putting this in the right page. Thanks again and here goes another version of what I pos
Read more…I just received a letter from my bank, stating that my business checking account will go from free to a fee starting in April.
Has anyone else seeing this with their banks? Is there any bank out there that is still free?
Unfortunately we can't k
Read more…From time to time there is a discussion about PCI Compliance and many of you accept it as status quo, thinking that it is necessary and that it will protect you from fraudulent credit cards. I, on the other hand, have always railed against this fee
Read more…Got an email notification from Square that they have added an update that supports a wireless printer and a cash box that unlocks with completed transaction. I don't see a need for either and the peripherals seem a little pricey to me, but I know so
Read more…I know there are a few big art fairs around the country, as well as in sunny Florida. The ones on my radar: Ohio Designer Craftsmen's flagship Winterfair in Columbus, OH, Amy Amdur's brand new Inside Show in Highland Park, IL, as well as the blockbus
Read more…I'm relatively new to doing shows and am curious. How do all of you evaluate whether or not a show is a 'good' show for you? Some of the books I've looked at have said that you should get a minimum of 8-10 times the cost of the show. Is this a go
Read more…Has anyone used SalesVu? They are a mobile card reader service similar to Square and GoPayment, For me, they look like a better deal than Square. They have a flat 2.7% (2.89%Amex) swiped or keyed rate. No other fees.
GoPayment sounds promising a
Read more…So after researching several iPhone swipe providers, I settled on Intuit Go Payment a couple months ago. Big mistake. I went with them because I thought the rates were decent albeit higher than 1NP because I liked the simplicity of the application
Read more…Where are the shows this weekend? Where will you be? Tell us so we can find you. The biggie I know about is Bayou City Arts Festival in Houston, with over 300 artists at least a few from this community will be there and we are looking for the report
Read more…I've been resarching and comparing various inventory software packages and wonder if anyone has any they can recommend.
Here is what I'm finding - lots of options that if I enter our initial quantity of a finished product, track the sales, will give
Read more…Here is a cool promotional effort between Howard Alan Events and Sunny.org the official site of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau: 
Such a good idea -- does anyone know of any other art fairs that are teaming up with their CVB
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