Setting Up for a Festival

Thanks for the great info Perry. I have never worked a festival, and I am not sure I will get to this summer, but it is something I aspire to be able to do at some point and I find this very interesting.

How nice of you Perry, to take the time to share this info. You are terrific.

Thank you. Have a booth coming up in June and this was good to read. Do you have other pictures of your "boards"? I'm wondering how to do the quick design board.

Denise

Thank you PN..they look great, you did a great job. I've had a Vistaprint account for years for my side graphic arts business. I'm just starting to use it for myself.

Denise

Perry, I am curious, did it get expensive adding each of those pics on Vista print? I really like how they look but I was thinking they charged for every pic and thought it would be to high? Sorry to be so nosy!

I don't know how hard it is to become one now, but I have a reseller account for doing business cards and get lots of discounts and shipping deals. Things like free photo uploads are included.

D.

BRILLIANT information. Signs are gorgeous too. Is it in bad taste to ask how much you charge for (A) designs as opposed to (B) designs?

Thank you for sharing your information and for the comprehensive post regarding festival tips. I am doing my first festival next week (county fair, omg) and I am shaking in my boots!

One piece of good advice for festival work... if you have a line mangler (yes...mangler...my 7 year old does more mangling that managing at times) paint him/her up in a middle or high price paint design and give him/her the task of walking the festival grounds or sitting at the front of the tent. The parents will be leaning towards the low point design, but often opts for the more expensive design when he/she sees it on a living breathing model (it also helps when the child sees it and wants it, lol). My daughter had her full face tiger and her arms glitter tatted up... all she needed to do was run to get the food vendors or walk through the play area and I had a line outside my tent...

Perry Noia wrote:they are either $5 and $8 or $5 and $10 depending on how much I had to pay for the booth. There have been rare occasions where I have made it everything for $5 but only at events where I'm worried that I might not get anything at all that day and full faces are more impressive walking around.

How do you decide what to charge for what? At the farmers market I do $5 for pretty much anything, but I have simplified most designs to be half-face or less. For those "something small" people I do something like a kitty nose and whiskers, or a super fast one color eye design for $3.

Do you go by time it takes to do the design? how much of the face it takes? Just curious cause some (like the unicorn mask thing) seem the same size as some of the A designs but obviously would take longer.

Silly question, just trying to figure out people's though process on how they price their designs as I'm still trying to work that out

Trina