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I posted this blog post today on the Handmade Market Blog but thought I would share it in my own space too!
What makes an appealing stall-holder application:
- Supply quality photos of your products
- If you are relying on your blog, make sure these are quality photos & big enough to enlarge – don’t just use thumbnails
- Dark photos of your products detract
- Name your photos and other documents with your business name
- Sometimes less is more – stick to your genre and do it well, instead of trying to cover all bases or categories
- Use an email address that reflects your business name
- Be polite
- Make sure you read terms and conditions and the application CAREFULLY, you might find this answers a lot of your questions and saves contacting market organizers over and over again!!
- When you send a link to showcase your work make sure it is a direct link so it doesn’t have to be searched for! This is time consuming and when there are hundreds of applications to go through - yours may get overlooked.
- Be prepared for rejection
- There is a difference between persistence and stalking :-)
- Be polite in your response
- Shooting yourself in the foot is unprofessional and unwise - burning bridges never helps future applications :-)
- Try not to take it personally
- Different markets target certain demographics
- There may be limits to how many stalls the market accepts, or how many stalls in the one category, get accepted
- The market may just not be looking for the type of product you offer
