Promote! Promote! Promote!

Here are a few ideas to help promote the show.  We've found that each artist promoting his/her own appearance at the show works fantastically to reach the widest audience.  Let your family, friends and fans know that you will be at Craftstravaganzaa and invite them to visit for their holiday shopping. Ask them to invite their friends and family. 


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We have available banners and graphics for you to post on your marketing media (mailing lists, website, blogs, etsy, facebook, myspace, twitter etc) to let your fans and customers know you will be participating in Craftstravaganzaa. The banners are available on the PROMO page of our website. 
http://athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com
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We also have fliers that can be downloaded from our website (PROMO page), please print and paste a few around your work/gym/store etc. 
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Our Twitter hashtag is #AthensCraft
Please tweet often and share our new location - 670 West Broad Street, Athens, GA. 
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Visit our event page on Facebook  
http://www.facebook.com/events/322784694403299/
and invite all your friends.   Ask them to do the same.  This is one of the quickest and easiest way to get our event in front of a lot of people.
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I'll be sharing marketing tips on the blog over the next few weeks, subscribe so you do not miss a post.  There's some neat suprises up  my sleeve. 
http://athenscraft.blogspot.com/

Vendor Listings for the Craftstravaganzaa web site.

I am adding vendor info, photos and links to the Craftravaganzaa website as they are sent in to me. 
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If you are a vendor in the Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa Holiday Market, please take a moment to write a short paragraph about yourself and/or your craft.  When you are finished, email it back to me.   Please attach the logo/photo you want to use for your listing.  Please also give me a url for your website, blog or etsy etc if you want us to link to it. 


If you were with us in the spring (or any previous show) and you’d like to just leave your blurb and photo as it was then just let me know. 


(viewable at http://athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com/vendors.htm) 

Hey, want to have fun and meet new people?

 Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa Holiday Market is seeking volunteers to help our event run smoothly. 

Thank you for your interest in helping us to put on this event. We’re asking

everyone who is interested to sign up for at least a two hour block of time, if

possible. All are welcome to help out.

Load In: Set up is from 8am until 10am, when the show starts. We will need

several people to greet our vendors and help them find their spaces if necessary.

We will send the vendors a map of the show layout beforehand; most will

already know where they belong. Some vendors might need help setting up

tents, or lugging their stuff to the lot.

Greeters: We need friendly, outgoing people to welcome our guests to the

show, answer questions, hand out programs, etc. Greeters will also be available

to give our vendors a break if they need it, check on them and make sure they

are doing ok or do not need anything. Just use your best judgement, some

people will not want/need help. The main thing is that they know we’re there to

provide assistance if needed.

Load Out: Volunteers help vendors break down their displays and load out.

Load Out volunteers also will stick around until everyone is gone, to look over the

lot and make sure everything is tidied up properly.

Contact: athensindiecraftstravaganzaa@gmail.com

Please include your e-mail address (or phone number) on the sign-up sheet!

We will be sending out reminders the day before the event.

If there are any questions (or if for some reason you will be unable to

volunteer), please contact us.

THANKS AGAIN for helping to make Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa bigger

and better! We want all participants to have a great experience, and we

couldn’t do it without YOU!!!

Volunteer FAQ at  http://athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com/schedule.htm#vols  or email athensindiecraftstravaganzaa@gmail.com

Only a couple weeks until the Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa 2011 Holiday Market! We are really excited about some changes this time around, and are glad all of you want to participate in this year's expanded market.

As most of you know, we have a new location, on the corner of Broad and Pope streets in the Ben's Bikes lot. While we will miss our old space, our new digs open up so many possibilities, with more room to include a diversity of activities and vendors. We will have food carts, live demos, art cars, and a photography booth for patrons to get their picture taken at our event. Best of all, the owners of Ben's Bikes are psyched to be hosting our event and can't wait to welcome all of you. We appreciate their positive and friendly attitude and we know that will spread to everyone involved. 

We are really happy about all the quality applications this time around, and hope you will help us in spreading the word to your mailing lists and via twitter, facebook, and whatever other networking tools you use. There are also posters and handbills that can be downloaded and printed from our website, so anyone who wants to help promote regionally, please do so!

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Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa 
      Athens Largest Handmade Market.™
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    http://athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com/

Deadline Extended to Nov. 1

The application deadline has been been extended to Nov. 1. However, the application has shut off, as it was scheduled to on Oct. 24.

When I get home from work today, I will turn it back on, it will be back online tonight by 8pm eastern. I am so sorry for the hassle, totally my fault, I forgot that I had scheduled the app to close on OCt. 24.

Looking to Share a Booth?

Interested in sharing a booth for #Craftstravaganzaa?? Check our facebook page for others who want to double up.

Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa New Location!

Hi All!
We are pleased to announce that the Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa Holiday Market will take place in a new space this year! After 5 great years at the corner of Clayton and Pulaski Streets, it is time for a change, and we are very excited to announce that Ben's Bikes will be hosting our show on December 3rd. For those of you who aren't familiar with Ben's Bikes, they are a very community-oriented bike repair and retail shop that is graciously welcoming our show into their space. Located at the corner of Broad and Pope Streets, this lot is less than a mile from campus, with tons of drive by traffic on the main artery into downtown, plus lots more room which means more vendors and more activities. We will be hosting food carts and hands-on demos from a few local artists, and we look forward to the expansion.

Of course, since this is a new location for us we will be working extra hard to get the word out and we hope you will, too! And if you have any ideas for more fun we can add, please send us an email to let us know--we believe this will definitely be our biggest, most diverse show yet.  We look forward to getting your applications and seeing what you'll contribute to Athens' largest handmade market--our deadline will be extended through Nov 1st.




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Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa 
      Athens Largest Handmade Market.™
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    http://athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com/