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Being a Good Neighbor
Site Newsletter - Release Date: 8/25 08

Promoter Add On:	Please add EventLister.com to your Mailing List. We will scan your application documents and confirmation packet materials in color and add them to your event listing. . Instructions: You SHOULD write our Assigned Event Number near the top, as E######## or as http://www.CraftLister.com/E####### and send to: 111 Sebring Rd, Dickson City, PA 18519 If we do not already have the event listed, we will NOT create an event listing for you. We will only scan applications for EXISTING, free, event listings. Promoters, please mention EventLister.com on you application and on your website. We will upgrade your event if you do and let us know. You must contact us and tell us, as scanning is done in an automated way. Using the online customer service interface, the 'contact' link, is the preferred method to notify us. If you go so far as to mention us in advertisements, especially if you do not have your own website and advertise your CraftLister.com or EventLister.com personal page one, we will even FEATURE your event listing for free!
Vendor Add On:	Each Application sent will earn you membership time. Any application received will earn you 5 days and each application that we do not already have scanned and that has a deadline at least 2 months away will earn you 15 days each. Send them BLANK of your info, but you SHOULD write our Event Number near the top, as E######## or written out at http://www.EventLister.com/E###### Send to: 111 Sebring Rd Dickson City, PA 18519 Many events are struggling to find sufficient quality applicants and are letting in lower quality than they desire to. Please address a large envelope to EventLister.com immediately and help the whole industry!
P or V Add On:	How can an event improve the quality of their exhibitors? Online Discussion at: http://www.craftlister.com/message_board.php?PageType=ShowPost&PostID=5653 http://www.eventlister.com/message_board.php?PageType=ShowPost&PostID=5653 Many events are not reaching their target audience of exhibitors. There are artists with open dates, yet they do not know of a show. How can we put the two together and help everyone involved? ------------ Being a Good Neighbor Online Discussion at: http://www.craftlister.com/message_board.php?PageType=ShowPost&PostID=6112 http://www.eventlister.com/message_board.php?PageType=ShowPost&PostID=6112 There are many aspects to being a good neighbor at an event as an exhibitor. First concerns should be to not disturb or hinder the vending of others, but ought to also include helping them out not only at this event but to even include passing on knowledge that will help them for years to come and enable them to become more successful. Booth Setup Layouts – Your display should be arranged such that it does not direct crowds of customers to block neighboring booths. You should book as many spaces as you will require, and if you have special crowd concerns because of your product, the promoter should be notified when you apply so that you may be placed appropriately. One popular layout, an outside U, where the tent has table along the front and both sides and the merchant is in the middle, can cause headaches for neighbors if you setup up-to your borders and so expect customers to browse from a neighbors space or from a shared walkway. Spot Encroachment – The extreme case of neighbor transgressions. Encroachment on your spot may blatant and extreme with a neighbor's rack out in the isle and moved over in front of your display or their table a few feet into your spot. It may also be less direct, and may be that a neighbor's products are still in their own booth, but THEIR customers seem to be ending up using YOUR booth as access to their products, or worse as a standing location from which to window shop. Spacing and Walkways between Booth Spots – Some shows bump spaces that are EXACTLY 10x10 right up to one another; this puts unnecessary strain on many exhibitors. Better are 11x10 or even 12x12 spots. At minimum, there should be a 2 foot wide walkway every 2 booths enabling vendors themselves to get in and out without sacrificing possible display space. If there are such walkways, they should not be blocked by either exhibitor unless both agree to close it off. Often this is needed if customers start piling through a tiny gap between your fragile works. Hanging material on the outer walls of your booth (aka on your neighbors side) – This can be appropriate or not, but really one should ask a neighbors permission if displaying in such a manner. The possible pain for the neighbor is that sometimes such a setup causes customers to browse one stand from within another, thereby blocking their customers. Often though, this effect is slight. Worse though, is when they hang products on racks on your side of their wall and up over your table. Neatness Counts! You've got to Hide your Stock Away. Keep all boxes out of view with floor length table cloths. YOU YOURSELF SHOULD BE DRESSED WELL... Keep your display arranged and neat. One unkempt house ruins the whole neighborhood! Move your Vehicle Immediately after unloading and do not get it until you are Packed Up! Also remember, exhibitors parking in customer parking steals from all exhibitors. Setup within the Time Guidelines – Setting up while customers are on the event floor makes the whole event look bad and is very unprofessional. Likewise, Do Not Pack-Up Early. If everyone seems to have decided to do so, then by all means. To say where the line is drawn is impossible. For one sole vendor to leave at noon and disrupt the whole show with customers in the isles would almost universally be seen as wrong. Though, would anyone judge the last remaining exhibitor for himself starting to pack early, even if long after so many others had been already doing so?. You should Warn Promoters of ANY Special Needs: Smoke, long lines, crowded booth, activities for kids, music, generator, Misc Breaking of big bills ( Change ). If you see or hear a neighbor having insufficient change to break big bills and you do, then offer change.. Relief Breaks. If your neighbor is alone, offer to watch their stand should they need a relief break. Sharing shows. Find out where they are from, then offer up good shows in their area. They may, almost certainly, return the gesture. Setup and or display or even product ideas. Particularly if they are new to exhibiting, and you have been through the ringer time and time again, offer them any suggestions you can on their setup, display, or product that you can see they could use. -------- Exhibitors: MAIL US BLANK COPPIES OF ALL APPS YOU RECEIVE! 111 Sebring Rd, Dickson City, PA 18519
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