Urban Craft Uprising

As vendors this is always the very best show we do each year! The team that organizes the show does an amazing job promoting the event, taking care of it's vendors and doing extra special stuff. Last holiday show they did a raffle for vendors - one vendor got their booth fee back as a prize! The customers are also great - they realy want to support handmade and are super supportive! Lastly we love talking and trading with the other vendors. It is a really nice mix of people who support each other!

Alexa wrote a great blog post about all the craft shows she participated in during the 2010 winter season. This quote is about the Urban Craft Uprising show:

130+ Vendors, 10,000 Attendees, 139 Transactions, $28 Median Sale Amount, Most common price tag $15-$35

This show was by far my most successful of 2010 in terms of gross sales not to mention the lowest in expenses being the hometown fair. It is well organized, carefully juried and Seattle's largest craft fair now in its seventh year. They offer a casual Friday set-up relieving the stress of prepping in a 2-3 hour window of time before doors open and a network of fantastic volunteers whose main job is to aid vendors.

UCU has a growing following with attendance increasing year-over-year and the covetable Swag Bags for the first 100 people each day have shoppers lined-up for hours before the event. I had record-crushing sales at this fair selling nearly 200% of sales of UCU 2009.

Only downside? The time FLIES! The whirlwind show hours are 11-5, the briefest of these four events.

Read the whole blog post and see how Alexa fared at the other shows in the 2010 holiday season.