Start Your Own Business Selling at Fairs, Shows and Events: Turn Your Passion into Profit!

Have you ever wanted to build your own business from your hobby or passion? The great news is that you already have the skills you need to succeed, you just need to polish them and learn how to take them to the marketplace. Use your hobby or passion as a springboard to a new and exciting money making business.

This book will help turn your dreams of starting your own business into a reality. Whether your passion is handmade, vintage, collectables or any other field that sells at fairs, shows and events, this comprehensive step by step guide will help you start your business today! Whether you want to do one-off events or set yourself up in business selling regularly on the circuit, this book will guide you step by step to turn your passion into a money making enterprise.

This book is written in easy to follow, measurable steps. Full of practical tips, it will help you get a foothold in the highly competitive fairs, shows and events circuit, and importantly, show you how to get invited back time and time again.

Written for the UK market, it easily translates worldwide. This book won’t tell you to give up your day job or make you rich overnight, but it will show you how to build a long term, sustainable business that will bring you a steady income in both the short and long term.

Over 9 Chapters, Annie covers:

• The Self Imposed Apprenticeship – Getting Your Bearings
Money Making? Networking, Marketing, Raise Your Profile, Homework

• Setting Yourself Up in Business – Planting the Seeds
Portfolio, Social Media, Investment, Branding, Insurance

• Finding an Events – Market Research
Where to look – online, locally, in person

• Choosing an Event – Dip Dip Dip, My Blue Ship…
Dedicated Event or Part of a Bigger Show, What to Pay and Why, Logistics – Inside or Out, Distance, Questions to Ask the Organiser

• Applications – Shine Bright
What Organisers are Looking for in Sellers, Making Connections in Person and Online, Pictures and Information, Extras, Value Added

• Getting Yourself & Your Stock Ready
Getting Ready – Longer Term – 4-6 Weeks – Stock, Pricing - Bread and butter range, Essentials Tick List – 1, Getting Ready – Short Term – 2 Weeks - Pricing Up, Dress Code, Display – layout and design dummy run, Essentials Tick List -2, Housekeeping – Ignore at Your Peril

• The Big Day – Time to Put Your Big Girl Pants On
Logistics - Arrival & Unloading, Parking, Finding your Table, Accept What you Can and Cannot Control, Setting Up, Display and Layout, Be Clear On What You are Selling, Camera – Action

• Open for Business –
Love Thy Neighbour, Take Notes, Talking to Customers, Dealing with Customers, What if I Sell Nothing, End of Day

• Appraisal
Follow Up, Notes, And Finally…

Annie Browne has helped hundreds of people to realise their dream of setting up a successful kitchen table businesses. She has spent the last 30 years working in both the vintage and handmade sectors. She is an experience event organiser as well as selling at fairs, shows, events as a trader. She is also part of a successful award winning enterprise, Blighty Bazaar, a huge shop in Leamington Spa that houses over 120 independent sellers of vintage and handmade. Blighty Bazaar supports kitchen table business traders, giving them a bricks and mortar presence on the high street, something that is accessible to very few small businesses in the current climate with prohibitive rent and rates charges. Alongside this she runs The Kitchen Table Business Academy, offering business advice and popular online e-courses and workshops.

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