Introduction
Signing Up for Your First Show | Spotting a Scam | 4 Types of Craft Fair | Tips for Beginners
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Ohio Shows 2023
Good sites
ohiofestivals.net/ohio-festivals/cincinnati-festivals/
365cincinnati.com/holiday-craft-shows-markets-cincinnati/
www.daytonlocal.com/events.asp
February
2/11 Valentine’s Day’s One Stop Pop-Up Shop
2/17 Miami County Home & Garden Show
March
3/18 Hometown EXPO That Spring Thing
Saturday, March 18, 2023
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
1675 S. Main St , Springboro, OH 45066
Free
In order to have a booth (be an exhibitor) at EXPO you must be a Springboro Chamber of Commerce member in good standing!
3/19 2023 CINCINNATI SPRING AVANT-GARDE ART & CRAFT SHOW
R.S.V.P Event Center
3/17 Greater Cincinnati Home Expo
April
4/8 Vandalia Easter Eggstravaganza
Saturday, April 8, 2023
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
4/15 Ohio One Stop Shop Hop
Wright State University
4/23 An Art Affair with A Fine Art Exhibition
April 22, 2023 | 10:00am–5:00pm
Tipp Center | 855 N 3rd Street | Tipp City, Ohio
4/22 Arts & Crafts Fair
11-2pm
502 Scott St, Covington, KY
May
5/13 Crafty SuperMarket
5/13 ARTISAN FAIR
5/20 Benton Farm Spring Fling &Craft Show
June
6/4-6/6 summer fair Coney Island
Friday, June 2 - 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 3 - 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday, June 4 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Summerfair Cincinnati, Inc.7850 Five Mile RoadCincinnati, OH 45230
Phone: 513-531-0050
E-mail: info@summerfair.org
Website: www.summerfair.org
Application Fee - $35
Booth Fee
$450 for single space (10' x 10')
$900 for a double space (10' x 20')
Booth Tent Rental Fee
$250 (10' x 10')
$590 (10' x 20')
Z application deadline 2/6 $35 app fee
6/17 Celtic fest
11am-10pm
10542 East State Route 73 Waynesville, OH 45068
celticfestohio.com/
6/17 TUSCULUM STREET FEST
ON JUNE 17, 2023 FROM 3-10 PM
Deadline for vendor commitment is May 19, 2023
$100 Non-Food Vendor
Includes:
10’ x 10’ Space
2 Tables
2 Chairs
Pricing available for tent and standard electric power
6/24 kids fest
June 24th Saturday Kids Fest: 1:00PM To 4:30PM/ Hanover Township Park
tel:5138969059
July
7/22 st James parish
Friday July 21st - 6:00PM till 11:00PM
Saturday July 22nd - 5:30 PM till 11:00PM
Sunday July 23rd - 4:00 PM till 10:00PM
3565 Hubble Road • Cincinnati, Ohio 45247
Web Site-www.stjameswhiteoak.com
E-mail: info@stjameswhiteoak.com
www.stjamesfestival.com/
Email sent
7/28 ST. JOHN'S PARISH FESTIVALJULY 28, 29 & 30, 2023
5361 Dry Ridge Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45252
stjohnsdr.org/2022-festival
Email sent
August
8/26 art fest on main
Aug 26, 2022, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
S. Main St., Springboro, OH 45066
www.artfestonmain.com
Email sent
September
9/10 * vandalia sister cities Oktoberfest
September 9th and 10th, 2022
at the Vandalia Sports Complex
1111 Stonequarry Road - Dayton 45414
Friday: 6pm - midnight
Saturday: noon - midnight
$5.00 Admission Each Day
10x10 $145
9/10 * Beavercreek Popcorn Festival
Saturday, September 9, 2023
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 10, 2023
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
$175 10x15
Deadlines:
March 31 for Returning Vendors who wish to have the same booth/area space will receive priority app and fees due.New Vendor payments due 30 days after invoice sent (expect in April/May 2023)
July 31 Insurance due
*Booth spaces are not guaranteed unless fees and insurance are received by the dates above. There are NO Refunds.
9/10 * port Middletown arts and music
9/17 waynesville street fair
Start: Sep 17, 2022 10:00 AMEnd: Sep 17, 2022 4:00 PM
9/24 Country Applefest
The festival is located at:
Warren County Fairgrounds
665 N BroadwayLebanon, Oh 45036
Festival Hours
Saturday 09/23/2023 10am-7pm
Sunday 09/24/2023 10am-6p
10x10 event center $195
10x10 outside $160
9/24 feast and fally
9/24 pyramid art fair
October
10/1 fall fest and car show Trenton
10/1 * spring valley potato festival
10/2 fall festival in centreville
10/7 Lebanon Oktoberfest
10/8 sauerkraut festival
10/8 * yellow springs street fair
10/8 Kiwanis Oktoberfest
10/15 great pumpkin roll
10/29 * fall at the fairgrounds craft show Clark county
10/13-10/14 Ohio One Stop Shop Hop
November
11/19
2023 CINCINNATI FALL AVANT-GARDE ART & CRAFT SHOW
R.S.V.P Event Center
453 Wards Corner Rd.
Loveland, OH 45140Sunday, November 19, 202310:00am-4:00pm
Crafty Supermarket Saturday, November 25, 2023 at Music Hall Ballroom from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
11/4-11/6 chriskindal mark Germaine’s
11/4-11/6 colerian hs booster
11/5-11/6 * cincy holiday expo sharonville
11/6 Deerfield handmade market
11/11-11/13 * greater cincy holiday duke energy
11/12 st Vincent ferrer
11/19 little Miami arts and craft show
11/25-11/27 * winter fair northern KY center
11/26 holly jolly vendor fair
December
12/17 pop-up esoteric brewing
12/18 daylight holiday market
Content
Hi, my name is Samantha and welcome to today's video today, we're going to be talking about signing up for new shows, let's get into it.
If you haven't already watched my video about how to avoid scams online when signing up for shows, go ahead and check out that video I'll have it linked down below that being said, I got a lot of questions on that video and I've gotten a lot of questions since that video about how do you sign up for shows? How do you find shows, and how do you avoid scams so being that I'm in a new area, I'm going to walk you through how I'm going about the process of finding new shows? So the first thing that I did to help make sure that I'm, one gonna sign up for a good show and two not going to give my money to some scammer online.
Is that I found a couple websites that had a lot of different shows on them so that it was more likely that they were legit shows I'll, have them linked down below uh, so they were lists of different shows.
What I did is I took that list and then I either um, just by reading the name or by clicking on the description and reading a little bit more about the event.
If it explicitly said that it was an art or if they had arts and crafts um or if I thought that it's something similar to something I've done in the past, then I added it's my list and so I just made like a rough list here, I wrote down the months and I wrote down the days and I just wrote down.
Some shows these ones down here that I highlighted Bulls specifically said arts and crafts or, for example, these three in November are at um convention centers nearby.
So that's something else that I did is I went and I looked up.
The convention convention Centers near me, or Expo Centers near me, and I tried looking on their websites for their events.
Now the convention centers around me their websites weren't that great so I wasn't able to navigate them very easily.
Um that didn't work out very well for me, but I have had success in the past.
That way.
For example, in Virginia, if you're on near the Dulles Expo Center, you can go on the Dulles Expo Center's website and you can look at their events on their event.
Calendar um.
This doesn't didn't work as well for me here, but that's one way you could do it so then, once I made this rough list, then I entered it into my um into my phone so that I could copy and paste and then I started building the list from there.
So, for example, um I typed in the keywords that I had written down in the date and I pulled up the event in a best say best case scenario, you would find the 2023 event like the current event.
However, in quite a few cases, I only found the 2022 event, which I would then send an email to the um email on file uh in in most cases, for example, um this one uh summer, fair at Coney Island.
So the email should be summerfair, Coney, island.com or summerfair Coney, Island gmail.com, something like that.
It shouldn't be bobsmith, gmail.com, don't email that person now if it is like a smaller event like it's a church event or something like that, you might be emailing a specific person, but in most cases it should be a professional email and it should match the event.
So I went through and I gathered all the correct dates.
The times the addresses I verified because I don't know this area.
I can't tell by just reading the address.
I'd verify that they're all within a reasonable distance, um and then I wrote down.
You know how much the booth fee was.
If it was listed, I wrote down um if there was an application fee deadline.
So now I can like start going through and applying for Stuff.
Quite a few.
They didn't have the application listed.
So, like I said, I just had to send an email once I sent that first email I was then just clicking.
The forward include attachments and updating the email to reflect the person that I was sending it to so I was just reusing.
The same email, just updating the information each time and I included my website as well as my name I personally, do not include my phone number I.
Don't want people to have my phone number I.
Do not want you to call me.
Don't call me I'm not going to answer the phone so I personally like to communicate via email.
Now, if you are a phone person, you could include your phone member, but I, don't like doing that um and then, as I'm, going through there's certain things like, for example, there's a show that I found in May that it says that um, like it's a non-refundable it's rain or shine.
So that's good to know, and then um there's another one that I saw uh.
Where was it uh? So there was um.
For example, I had written down uh three of actually Four events here on the same date, for example September 10th, so the first event when I pulled it up.
I did not find the information for this year, so I sent an email.
The second event, I did find the information for this year and the deadline is March, 31st and uh.
You have to submit your insurance as well, and it says that there's no refunds and then the next event, I found I, could only find the Facebook page from last year.
So again, I had to send an email and then the fourth event I couldn't find it at all, so that one I ended up just deleting and that's gonna happen.
That's why I wrote down multiple events.
I don't expect to do multiple events in one day, however, you don't want to limit yourself right from the start, because what happens if I email, one of these people I, have three events written down for that day, if I email, one of those people- and they say- oh my event's- already full okay- who cares go to the next one? So don't limit yourself right at the start.
Oh I already have one rent down.
Who cares just write it down plus, if you need it for next year, you already have that information.
So, like I, said I just continued going through the list.
I haven't gone through the list all the way, because there's a lot more shows: September October November, but um I got to September.
I was working on September, um and I'll.
Have the information linked down below that I found there's an event that I found for June? That today is the application deadline, so I'm glad I'm going through and doing this because quite a few of these events, the deadlines are sometime in February or March.
So you do have to apply early.
You have to know if you're doing these shows or not.
Now that being said, like I said, I, don't know how November and December are going to go down for me, so I'm going to just apply for the shows that I think I can do that.
Have a reasonable fee that if I do have to drop out, then I just lose that cost, but I do want to pile on more shows earlier in the year, so I might be doing like two shows a month.
Up to that point, instead of like last year, I did every every single weekend in November.
December I had a show so I'm, not certain, we'll see how it goes and I have been getting responses from the emails that I've been sending out.
I just got one just now: uh and I wrote I, also um included like the website and then, like I, said the booth fee if there was booth fees for these events, let me know if there's any other questions that come to mind, that I can help you with in the comments down below uh.
That's how I go about uh.
Finding shows I, don't use.
Facebook Facebook is the biggest place that you can get scammed, so I try to not do that.
I want to go on the person's official website.
Most shows have an actual website.
It should be.
You know, summerfair Coney island.com.
It should be the website of the name of the event and that's how you know it's one, a legit event and then two like it's worth your time like.
If it's such a small event, it might not even be worth your time.
That being said, it's not like that these shows are my complete show list for the year.
I.
Just definitely want to get some some shows on the calendar so that I can start preparing for them.
I can make sure that I have things scheduled, but the best best way to hear about shows is word of mouth because then you can hear from somebody else, hopefully with a similar product or similar price point, as you find out.
If that show is worth it and if you should sign up for it, if the event organizer is worth it or not, do they communicate? Well, you know, there's a lot of things that you can't tell from online online is not a great way to find, shows I, don't trust very much online.
It's very it's it's! It's I, just I, don't trust people and I, don't trust uh! You know finding shows online, but this is the best way that I've found doing it.
If you have any tips or suggestions, please leave them in the comments down below.
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