Increase Show Sales with These Simple Tips
This is the year to pull out all the stops! The economy is improving, people continue to feather their nests and if you use the following marketing tips, they will be your feathers and not someone else’s. Plan ahead. Your best investment is investing in yourself.

• Be enthusiastic – when you are positive people want to be a part of your success.
• Stand up front and engage customers.
• Use great images.
• Install good lighting.
• Provide clear pricing information.
• Know your story and tell it.
• Listen.
• Give good valid reasons to buy your work.
• Invite everyone to sign your guest book - obtain addresses, both postal & electronic.
• Add life to your booth with flowers or plants
• Make sure your signage clearly shows who you are and what you do
• Follow-up, follow-up, follow-up.

Invest in Bruce Baker’s Motivational CDs
Learn more ideas about improving your sales from the master, Bruce Baker. Bruce sheds new light on how customers want to be treated and what makes them spontaneously buy products. His CDs are designed to be a motivational tool for craftspeople that deal directly with the public. Listen to them in your car on the way to the show so it is fresh in your mind – it just might make a phenomenal difference in your show sales. To learn more or to purchase the CDs go to www.dbakerinc.com.

Present Your Work to Architects & Designers
Our media partner, Rhode Island Monthly magazine will be presenting their annual design awards at the Providence show at 12 noon on Friday. The area’s best architects and designers will be on the show floor for this presentation so put your best face forward!

Display Your Work in Designer Room Vignettes
Professional designers will set up showcase rooms utilizing exhibitor work at both shows. If you get a call from one of the participating designers (Nancy Miller and Wendy Schaffer in MKE and Laureen McGarry & Lisa Good man in PVD), we hope you will take advantage of this unique opportunity to present your work in a home-like setting.

Get Your Free Museum Tickets
Show attendees may pick up FREE tickets for admission to the Racine Art Museum at their show booth.

Purchase Tiffany Postage Stamp
The United States Post Office will unveil the Louis Comfort Tiffany 41-cent commemorative stamp to the Milwaukee market prior to the show opening on Saturday morning. It will be on sale at the show throughout the weekend. The stamp features an image of a leaded Favrile-glass window designed by Tiffany. The stamp pays tribute to all of Tiffany’s artistry and is the seventh in the U.S. Postal Service American Treasures series that showcase beautiful works of American fine art and crafts.

Both Fine Furnishings Shows are officially Endorsed by: