I have been doing the Golden Fine Arts for over 10 years and always paid my sales tax at the end of the show. It was never a big deal and no city licensing was required. The only problem I ever encountered was one year I was told to go to the wrong p
Read more…I am currently looking a few months out and as always feeling cheap about booth fees. I have only been involved in shows full time for a couple of years and low cost local shows at least put needed dollars in the bank account.
When I eye a show a day
Read more…There seems to be a number of art fair artists getting phone calls allegedly from the IRS saying that they owe money and that they are going to be prosecuted. They seem to be getting our numbers from social media. You may have gotten one or several w
Read more…Hello! Full on newbie question! Doing my first show this weekend in a city. What do you do with your stuff at night? Take it all down? Thank you so much for your help!
Read more…Just got back from my first art show using the new square setup with the chip reader. Everything worked fine, and I want to thank everyone for discussing things here.
Every card that we took was with the chip reader.
How would I NOT use the chip read
Read more…After ten years doing shows my luck finally ran out..For the first time I lost a tent at the Amy Amdur show at the North Shore Festival near Chicago. Although I had plenty of weights it just couldn't withstand the 50 mph wind gust associated with the
Read more…Suzanne Ens,
I am not sure you are still participating here but I have a question about your review for the 3 Rivers show in Covington, LA. (The review was written 3 years ago and appears in the show review section.)
I am still a relative newcomer to
Read more…I did my first art fair last weekend and although I knew that the people there were not my target audience, it was local and I wanted to use it as a dry run and learning experience. I found some flaws in what I was doing and am now ready to apply to
Read more…Hi all, I just got accepted into the Spring One of A Kind Show Chicago coming up late April. It is a large step up financially from the fairs I have exhibited in previously and am wondering if any previous participants could share their experiences f
Read more…I don't know if anyone else has this problem of the website not loading on the computer. I have not been able to pull up the artfairInsiders website on my desktop during the last several days. Everything other website I go to loads as they normally d
Read more…It's been a long time since I had a sole proprietorship. I was a one-man S-Corp for 30 years.
What kind of business structure do most of you use and why? Do you need a business or merchant account for it? If you just have a sole proprietorship, do yo
Read more…Hi I'm looking for certificates of authenticity templates and or pre made cert forms that I can add some general info to. I have an Apple computer and it seems as though its harder to find programs that have these certs.
Any advice?
Read more…I did a show this weekend at a convention center in my city. I set up 2 nights before the show. The night before the show, one of the exhibit hall contractors ran into my booth with an electric cart, causing a wall to fall, and damaging over $1000
Read more…I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find it. There's always a lot of talk about how jury fees are out of hand, and that shows are making money hand over fist with the record number of artists who apply. But what does it RE
Read more…Hi I am a photographer. I am not going to actually get to my first fair until April of 2016. My question is how far back can I go in writing off expense, I bought a new camera and have been traveling taking photos since May to create my portfolio. Ca
Read more…Easy enough to discover this is a scam. Got it today. Just posting so it shows up in 'google' in case anyone else gets a similar email....
Hello,
My name is Joey Marcos. I'm in the process of moving to Italy to expand my business field. I just boug
Today I had a glitch with my square. I "rang up" a sale for $31.59 but when I checked my Square account the customer was charged $315.93. I do not see a way to get in touch with the customer to let them know I am contacting square with regard to this
Read more…I'm brand new to the world of art shows and curious if anyone has offered a deal involving free shipping and tax on orders placed at art shows. Around my area (metro Chicago) some retailers have begun offering "we pay the tax" sales. Now obviously w
Read more…We all know about the spreading out around the shows and how "outsider" groups and merchant groups can pull "our" customers into their spaces. (Who has a right to streets, actually?) But I just came across this: "Grove Garden and Arts Show in Coconut
Read more…Just a heads up on the law concerning credit cards and 1099 filing.
According to the IRS if you have $20,000 or more in transactions AND process more than 200 transactions, your merchant provider (Square, etc) will send a 1099 to the IRS and you shou
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