Chloe Winstanley
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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to maybe discern what is actually handmade and what is not.
I know people really love to support small businesses and I'm one of them.
And I've been in that position where I've bought something thinking that I was supporting a small business, but it turns out that was just something that was imported and mass produced.
So it's just really tricky.
I've been rambling a little bit, but I think that's one of the things.
If you're looking at a craft fair, try and go along in person if you can ahead of time to a different one, just to see what kind of vendors they have, the quality of their vendors.
I would personally avoid craft fairs who...
are allowing people who are multi-level marketing and that sort of stuff, where Tupperware or Avon or anything like that, any craft fairs that don't align with your beliefs or whatever in terms of what a craft fair is meant to be and what it's not meant to be.
And I think most kind of small craft fairs are probably going to be prioritizing handmade, high quality, small businesses.
It's just when you get to the really big ones, maybe that I would be a bit more skeptical about and that I would want to check out firsthand.
I think doing your research on the craft fair, you can ask them questions.
You can ask, out of my fee, is my fee going to be going towards advertising, advertising the fair so that there's going to be good foot traffic, just things like that.
It makes me so sad when I see comments on social media about people who have had negative experiences at craft fairs because I just know that it's a thing.
It's really hard to keep a small business afloat, but there are ways to do it.
There's always strategies that you can take
to set yourself up for success and that's just why I love talking about this because it's so complex there are so many layers to it and it just gets into like how society functions and all that kind of big picture stuff about consumerism and capitalism and all that kind of stuff I mean we don't need to get into all of that right now but I just think there's always going to be a way to be successful and it's just about doing research and being prepared ahead of time
knowing what you're getting yourself into.
If it's a really high fee, if you're looking at $500 and above, just be really scrutinizing because some organizations are going to have different priorities depending on their personal ethos.
And I think that if you're someone who has a small business, is looking to retire early,
obviously profit is going to be important so just doing taking the steps that you can to maybe create multiple streams of income as well if it's if hosting workshops is something that you're able to do then explore that as well just because depending on on where you are and what your skills are it could be a really lucrative a lucrative direction to take to not necessarily replace craft fairs if you really do love craft fairs
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