Vendors, we will NOT give you a people count as we honestly don't know if it will be 5, 50 or 150 people. These are NEW markets we can NOT & will NOT give you any specifics on them.
*DO YOUR OWN ADVERTISING*
There are quite a few ways to advertise for FREE, make your own fliers & pass them out around the neighborhood where the Market is located, AzCentral.com has a great classified pages on their websites that you can post adds on, Phoenix17.com, BackPage.com (where you can put small paid adds in the New Times for only $15.00 for 4 weeks) and any local yahoo groups, or any other type of local online group you may belong to, including Merchant Circle place your ad on Merchant Circle and include a special coupon to join you at the market & your local LinkedIn Group We look forward to finding your ads on Phoenix17.com, & Backpage.com too.
It is your business not mine, so make your ads about YOU!
We are simply giving you a place to showcase your wares.
As far as advertising goes we pass out fliers and put ads out in a few of our local papers along with ads on Craigslist.org, BackPage.com, and a few other places online.
We also tell our Vendors (if in the party plan business) to let their past hostesses know that if they would like to host another party but do not have the time to do one at home then they could have their party there at the event itself and invite guests to it just as if they would if they were holding a home show. Same benefits less work.
*We can pay to advertise until we are blue in the face that does not mean we will have people walk in the door especially if it is an unknown event and something totally brand new that NO ONE has heard of, we could put 100 signs out front but that still does not guarantee a body walking in the door if you want us to put out a full page add in the paper then we will gladly charge you for it, but that still does not guarantee you that we will get bodies in the door, and we also do not want to have to charge you more than $40.00 per market.
We also highly recommend VistaPrint.com Postcard Marketing they quite often have their postcards on their FREE list where you can get 100 postcards printed up for FREE if you use their designs if you use your own logo the cost will be $4.99 or less. New, vendors can donate any non perishable food items during their first paid for market and they will get the month of December for FREE. You can then purchase a mailing list from VistaPrint.com for only $7.00 and have them address and mail out the postcards for you all for just about $50.00 when you get them on the FREE Sale days. You can have your business postcards mailed out to the either locations zip codes which is 85029 for the North Phoenix, Bent Cover Market & 85301 for the the Mighty Cup Market in Glendale telling 100 different families that you will be at the market on such and such dates, you can also quite often order banners & signage from them for FREE!
*Setup 1 hour before and break down 1 hour after.
Market is outside, you will need to bring your own tables, canopies, etc. Paula has chairs we can use, there is no electricity or internet available.
If you want customers
*DO YOUR OWN ADVERTISING*
See 2011 Market page for pre-made ads
you can copy and paste ANY of those ads into the online order form, or read them directly to Mike over the phone if you wish to call instead.
Glendale Star
http://www.glendalestar.com/
Classified Advertising Rates
1 week 25 words in the Glendale Star and Peoria Times.
$10.22
2 weeks 25 words in the Glendale Star and Peoria Times.
$20.44.
Mike Kenny
623.847.4606
Deadline: Mondays by 3:00 p.m. MST
Your ad will be published in both papers
Circulation 20,000 weekly
Yes we expect you to place your own ad in a local paper, it is your business not ours.
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After unloading vendors MUST move their vehicles to the back of the parking lot.
BRING YOUR OWN SIGNAGE & BANNERS!!! Banners can be drapped accross the front, back & side windows of your car and parked facing the street, this is particularly helpfull when it is 110 degrees outside.
Understand THIS, Taco Bell does NOT advertise for Home Depot, Sears does NOT advertise for McDonalds, and Avon, Tupperware and Wal-Mart did NOT get to where they are today because they sat on their asses and expected someone else to do THEIR job & promote their dream.
How many times a day do you see a Huggies, Tide or Coke commercial on TV?
Was there only 1 Budweiser commercial aired during the Super Bowl?
Why do they bother advertising if you already know who they are?
And when was the last time you saw Maytag ask Kenmore if they would run their next Maytag washing machine special in their Kenmore Refridgerator ad?
If you want customers YOU have to work for them.
*DO YOUR OWN ADVERTISING* and that does not mean facebook or your e-mail list, that means slam craigslist, and backpage.com and put an ad in the Glendale Star the information is up above, in the part that you skipped when you did not read the rules.
Think of this as a big yard sale just a lot more fun!!! You put signs out on the street when you have a yard sale don't you? Do you also place an ad in the paper and on Craigslist. This is no different.
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