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Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Maker Business

Maker markets are in flux, retail stores are just now grinding back into motion, and the future of live, human-to-human commerce opportunities for handmade, local goods is uncertain. This moment presents a huge opportunity for you to do a strategy pivot, test new digital marketing tactics, and experiment how you’re getting your good goods out there in front of the world. Use this time to up your entrepreneurial ante and you may just find yourself better off than you ever could have imagined.

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Top Tips for Successful Selling at Craft Markets and Festivals

Kate Thurman and Alaina Smith have lots of experience selling from booths at craft fairs and markets. Alaina, who runs Cold Gold, has participated in 20+ craft fairs, and Kate of Smarty Pants Paper Co. has exhibited at craft fairs and trade shows and has created counter and floor displays for a product-based business. Both women have won awards for their craft fair booths. (Yeah, they’re awesome.)

And they’ve shared some of their top tips for a successful day of selling at craft fairs.

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