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TRAMPOLINE Market6-7th July 2013 - Ranelagh Arts Centre, 26 Ranelagh Main Street, Dublin 6, Dublin.

Trampoline Market is a two days arts and crafts event taking place in beautiful Ranelagh Arts Centre over the Summer.

In a dreamy and friendly atmosphere, 12 designers will have a unique opportunity to expose and sell their work while getting together with other talented creatives and having fun.

This is the first edition of an art and craft event that is going to travel the world and we will do our best to make it a memorable, inspiring and positive experience for everybody involved. Join us in the journey!

Whether you are an emerging or more established designer and you are interested in taking part, send us some photographs of your work and a little description of your art practice at: trampolinemarket@gmail.com

Stalls are 40 euro for one day or 70 euro for the whole weekend.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!!

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Great Up Coming Events

June 1st - Car Boot and Saturday Market
June 2nd - Craft & Trade Fair 
June 9th Carboot and Saturday Market
June 16th - Baby and Child Fair
June 22nd Car Boot and Saturday Market 
June 30th - Home Exhibition 
July 7th - Craft & Trade Fair

To book your space at any of our events simply
call us on 087 395 5555

Entry fee from €15

Gates opens for setup from 8am.
Gate closes at 8.45am sharp
Open to Public from 9am

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If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The BJDEvents.ie Team.

BJD Events

Gleneagle Business Park,
Oldcastle Road,
Ballyjamesduff
County Cavan
Tel: 087-  395 5555
Web: www.bjdevents.com

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Twitter: BJDEvents

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My computer was out of action recently and my codes to access this site, photo uploads went with it, apologies for lack of posts and I’ll keep trawling my spam for what I have missed!

Karen

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The event organiser is there to keep stand holders happy and provide a good show for your customers.  It is a job where you must be able to juggle creative personalities, good organisational skills, be ‘out there’ advertising, keeping a good reputation and doing it all professionally and staying calm!!

Setting up a fair should be easy once you follow a few simple guidelines.

 Step 1. Vet all applicants, asking a person to send 3 images of their product and price range will help you to have good variety at your event with realistic prices. This helps you to know what products are coming to your event and what you have to offer your customers.

Step 2.  Think about value and interest for your customers.  If everything is expensive or too cheap you will miss out on pleasing a large percentage of your customers. Variety in price will cater for more people, not everyone is searching for a bargain, also have products available for impulse buys, the money people are carrying around in their pockets.

Step 3.  Variety…this means that although it would be easy to cram in the first few people applying for spaces, you must remember that your customer will look for variety in the stands.  Having too many stands of the same type of product will make for a boring fair and also the stand holders will not sell well if there are too many of the same type of products in the same venue.

Step 4.  Be visible…your stand holders will appreciate you being around for queries and support.  You are the face of your business so being available for your customers (the stand holders) is a must.

Step 5.  Advertise. Advertise. Advertise.  Internet, flyers, shops signs, websites, CCOI website, www.irishcraftupdate.com, facebook, road signs, balloons, blimp….get it known out there that you are having an event and then saturate everywhere to get customers in the door.  If you have an empty event you will not get people to display with you again.

Step 6.  Start with a good reputation and keep it!     ……. You need to build a good reputation from the very first fair you run.  If there are customers in the door it is up to the stand holders to sell their products.      A chef’s reputation is only as good as his last meal!

Step 7.  If you are going to do it, do it right the first time!   There is no second chance to make a first impression.   You may not make much on your first few events, but building a good reputation by looking after your stand holders, advertising well and putting in the time to make things right will pay off in time!

Step 8.  Give a little back to your customers….feel good factor works!   Have a coffee area, seating space,  have face painting, balloons or music, a little extra can help the customers relax and not feel that it is all about spending!

Step 9.  Charity…if you run a charity raffle or donate some proceeds to charity, you can benefit from free advertising with their website, maybe local newspaper, radio and road signs (check your local county council in relation to this).  PLUS you help a charity.

Step 10.  Ask for help…you cannot do it all alone, bring people in with their expertise to spread the workload.  One person cannot be great at everything, use the right people for parts of the business that you lack knowledge or experience in.

Experience is everything, every fair you run you will learn from and bring forward new ideas to improve the next one!

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Photo as promised!

If you would like to support Today FM’s shave or Dye, raising money for Irish Cancer Society, our direct charity page is here:
http://www.mycharity.ie/fundPageTemplateX.php?urlRef=annelouise

Every 1 euro is appreciated!  Thank you and stop looking at us funny!

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Hope you don’t mind me posting this …….

Not exactly craft related but just thought I’d share that my 2 sisters and myself are getting involved with Today FM radio’s ‘Shave or Dye’

We have a dad and brother that both survived cancer and know how shocking and desperate you can feel once cancer sneaks into a healthy family.

We were very thankful for the free Irish Cancer Society- family information leaflet, that we received and all read from page to page…they cost 2 euro each to print, a small amount but vital for a panicking family, especially when they need to know answers, to get through the roller coaster that happens in a family with a cancer patient.

If you  feel inclined,  we would love to reach our little goal of 300 euro towards the Irish Cancer Society, in fact we would love to make well over that small sum!

We are following the theme ‘Monks or Punks’ and all getting Mohawks next week, on the 8th …… and then dying them!  In for a penny and all that…..gulp!

If you would like to help in any way, a tiny donation would be really appreciated, our my charity link is:

http://www.mycharity.ie/fundPageTemplateX.php?urlRef=annelouise

Thanks so much

Karen Harper

(photos to follow! )

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When you make a new product, it doesn’t become your best piece, it is just new…..to you!

I have met many artists and crafts people that dismiss their stock to show off a new piece they have just made/designed/painted etc.

Remind yourself, it is new to you only….customers don’t know what is your latest design and what is old stock.   We have all carried around a piece that we are sick of looking at, hoping it will get lost or sold at a cheap price so we don’t have to lug it around with us anymore….your customers know nothing about the old boring stock or new exciting (to you) stock you have.

Its best not to put down your old stock or belittle it!

People (customers) only care about themselves…….. in the nicest way possible.

They look at some product or service and wonder how it will benefit them, if you put down your work because it is old stock then a customer will have less value for it.

Remind yourself, a good wine, an early edition book  or expensive painting gets better with time!

Use positive words with all your pieces ….early work, original design, last of a limited edition……

Your customers want to feel special, whether spend a few euro or a few thousand……everyone wants to feel good, let them enjoy buying your work and feeling like they are getting something worthwhile…at one stage it was your best/newest piece!

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• Keep going anyway!
• Look at the price, is it right for this climate
• target a different market
• re-brand it
• do a survey to see why not (be aware, constructive criticism can help, family usually want to keep you happy)
• make more of it, it will sell eventually!!!
• restructure the size/shape/colour/price..all of the above
• STOP…look back…what did work before!

We all know that creative people will keep creating as it is in their blood, not getting paid for your time, designs and value of the product is all part of being a crafts person (unfortunately).

The people that do get paid for all of these have a reputation to go with the product and that is what people are buying too.  e.g.  a Chanel handbag, is just another bag without the Chanel attached.

If you have been selling for a while you will know your ‘bread and butter pieces’, the pieces that are an easy sell and are guaranteed to bring in the regular return of income.  Keep making them, even if you get bored of them, your customers don’t!   Regular income helps you to continue to stay in business!

What advise do you have for other creative people… experience is the best form of learning!   Share it!

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Not craft related but very worthwhile……

Warm Simon!

When you are thinking about which boots, shoes, outfit, accessories you are going to wear for Christmas, wouldn’t it be nice to know you have helped someone wear some warm clothes for christmas!

We are holding a sock, glove, scarf, coat, sock collection for the Simon Community…
Will be going on all week and we are having a Christmassy Coffee Morning on Wednesday

Email  me for more details if you would like to come along….or better still donate something to SVP or Simon to help people on our doorsteps this Christmas.  We all have a few too many scarves, out of season gloves, last years coat that could be put to good use.

Karen and AnneLouise

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25% Discount Day

We are delighted to inform you that we will be having a 25% Discount Day on Thursday December the 6th, we will be open from 9am-7pm. All Fine Art materials will be discounted 25% off the marked price (Special offers/Portfolios/Paper per sheet/Clays are excluded).

The discount will be for one day and available in-store only.

If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us.

K&M Evans
5 Meetinghouse lane
Off Marys Abbey
Dublin 7
Tel: 01 8726855
Email: info@kmevans.com
www.evansartsupplies.ie

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