Where to market yourself??

Great great advice!! I have now gotten 2 bookings from a fb friend's husband who works for Mitsubishi, as well as a birthday party later this month. Yesterday I signed up on Gig Salad and Kijiji, and have gotten 3 leads already, one of which has booked!!!! The emails I had sent out were looking up local festivals and art show type things and emailing through the website, maybe because they festivals are too close they aren't interested in adding more booths, but still found it odd that a few had no reply at all. I'm keeping a file of the inquiries I recieve so that I can follow up and also send out future contact with reminders, deals, etc as things roll along. Given that I started this past June, I think the issue was that I just needed a little more patience and faith in letting the seed take root. Appreciate all the helpful hints here, quite valuable!!

After reading all of this, I went and listed my business in kijiji and another local free classified service. Thanks for all the good advice, everyone.

Something simple I have found if you have young children is to paint them and just go out in the community. If I am going to the mall, or grocery shopping, I paint my kid up real cute and people almost always stop and ask where she got painted I did this yesterday and the cashier asked me if I do birthday parties. The time before, I had a scout leader take my number for a scout event...have business cards ready and voila...free marketing. (and practice)

This is super helpful. I'm awful at marketing. Next FABIAC I won't miss out on the marketing panel >_<