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Market Day is an indie craft market: our vendors craft -- but they don't make your grandma's crafts.
Find Market Day at the Des Moines Social Club in the Kirkwood Building -- at 400 Walnut Street in downtown Des Moines, IA. Click here to get directions.
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Art Beacon Des Moines: Jolynn Reigeluth illustrates her Alter Egos at Ephemera →
Jolynn Reigeluth’s Alter Egos
Last Friday, I was introduced to a donkey who is always celebrating his birthday. Above you see him in his party hat, standing patiently, awaiting final judgment in Purgatory. He is one of many…
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Submit Your Work to ArtVend
Remember that cool project from Ames C.art we posted about a while back? ArtVend (aka, the vending machine where you can sell handmade items).
Right. Well, you can submit stuff! (As long as it can fit in a vending machine and handle the drop.) Just visit the ArtVend submission page and fill out a few questions. Ames C.art will let you know how to package and deliver your items.
From the ArtVend website:
[ArtVend] is a vending machine that has been transformed to display and sell the work of local artists and crafters (aka Makers). The machine will spread homemade morsels of Central Iowa where they might not normally reach, and local Makers will have a unique option to promote their work. The presence of the ArtVend will encourage the integration of creativity into everyday life.
[image via amescart.org]
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You Can Still Apply for Market Day!
There’s still time to get in on this year’s action! We’re starting Early Bird Registration today, but that doesn’t mean applications are closed. Just fill out this application form and we’ll notify you of your status as soon as possible.
If you’ve already applied and received notification that you’ve been accepted, you can now start registering for specific Market Day dates. Remember, this year we’ll be assigning booths, but the sooner you register and pay for a date, the more likely you are to get your preferred location.
Visit marketdayiowa.com for more information, and get in touch with us at vending@marketdayiowa.com if you have any questions.
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How to Make the Portfolio Website You Know You Need
You need to have a website so people (read: new customers) can find you in a Google search. So get one! It’s easy — all you need to post is your contact information and a few photos. Here are some tools to make your own portfolio website.
1: Carbonmade. Make a gorgeous photographic portfolio. It’s easy. It’s pretty. It’s free. Nuff said.
2: Flickr. So simple: Just upload your photos and fill out your profile.
3. Re.vu. This fun, interactive resume-making site a fun way to tell your story (and your vital stats).
4. Professional Nameplate Site. Here are a few more suggestions for “professional nameplate sites” via Lifehacker.
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How to Make the Portfolio Website You Know You Need
You need to have a website so people (read: new customers) can find you in a Google search. So get one! It’s easy — all you need to post is your contact information and a few photos. Here are some tools to make your own portfolio website.
1: Carbonmade. Make a gorgeous photographic portfolio. It’s easy. It’s pretty. It’s free. Nuff said.
2: Flickr. So simple: Just upload your photos and fill out your profile.
3. Re.vu. This fun, interactive resume-making site a fun way to tell your story (and your vital stats).
4. Professional Nameplate Site. Here are a few more suggestions for “professional nameplate sites” via Lifehacker.
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But where does the $50 booth fee GO??
We’ve had some questions about booth fees, and we’d like to address them. It’s true, Market Day booths in 2012 will be $50.00 per month. We’ve always strived to be transparent as possible about our policies, so we’d like to outline what you’re paying for when you hand over your dollars to vend at Market Day.1. We’re stepping up our game. We’ve been planning in a big way for our 2012 season. Starting in January, we’ve been organizing our little hearts out, structuring and fleshing out our event logistics and policies. In 2012, you can expect:- A better schedule. By moving to the first Saturday of each month, we’re positioning ourselves away from holidays and events that have traditionally interfered with our traffic. Our new schedule coincides with the always awesome first Saturday of the Des Moines Farmers’ Market. We’re moving off of June’s Des Moines Arts Festival, and onto the weekend of 80/35, whose large audience should push more shoppers downtown. Our new schedule pushes our fall dates earlier, taking advantage of the warmer weather, and leaves several weeks to garner buzz for our fourth annual Black Friday bash.
- More infrastructure. Our new application system is a great addition to last year’s process. Vendors receive instant confirmation of their applications. In addition, we’re mapping out our spaces in order to efficiently place as many vendors as possible into our events, and we’ll be assigning spaces this year, eliminating too-early mornings and standing in line to compete for placement.
- More ads. We’re planning a big media push in 2012. More ads = more traffic = more sales. We’re striving to bring as much attention as possible to our awesome vendors — our budget for ad buys has doubled!
- More social media. We’ll be blogging, tweeting, and facebooking our butts off to make sure the Market Day digital presence is as strong as ever.
2. We’re sticking to what works.
There’s a lot about Market Day that isn’t broken, and we’re certainly not fixing it. For your money, you receive:- A fantastic location. We love our new home at the Kirkwood Lounge and Des Moines Social Club. For the first time in Market Day history, two consecutive years will be held at the same venue, reinforcing Market Day’s continuing presence in Des Moines. Our second year has seen an increase in rent, but we believe that the benefits are well worth the costs.
- A crack team of devoted planners, at a reasonable price. Cat, Scott, and myself are insanely dedicated to Market Day. We work hours and hours, nights, weekends, whatever it takes to keep Market Day growing and thriving. The stipends we take are small, serve to help us from having to spend Market Day time on other jobs, and are not going up this year.
3. More of the stuff you already expect from Market Day. We’ll be posting MORE resources (on our rad new site), MORE information, MORE ideas (like on our Pinterest!), MORE connectedness for vendors, MORE.4. More value for the money. We like to think we are growing with our vendors. NOW. Some of you have been selling crafts full time since long before we came along. But many of our vendors started with Market Day and found themselves invested in a new business, with new knowledge, selling part- or full-time at other events in Iowa and across the country.In our third year, we could see that we needed to kick our game up another notch — lots of vendors had leveled up. We needed new training. So we’re working harder than ever on providing more help and information that will help you further your business — and that’s organized nicely.At the end of the day, we know we’re worth $50 a month. We can never guarantee any vendor will make their money back, but we do know that most do — especially those businesses which work their crafty fingers off, improving products, signage, displays, and customer interaction.
Most of all, we always want to improve Market Day — for the benefit of our vendors and for the city of Des Moines.
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Filed under: market day, vendors, iowa, crafts,.
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Official Market Day Iowa Website →
Hey guys! We’re moving on from Tumblr for the official festival website. We’ll still keep this guy around and post fun stuff to Tumblr about Market Day, but all of the official application business and that kind of thing will be on the full website at www.marketdayiowa.com.
And a reminder: applications open on Wednesday. THIS Wednesday. So yeah.
Filed under: official news, market day, market day iowa, iowa, des moines,.
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