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Find Event Vendors And Planners

by Amarendra Singh
Organize Your Festival If you are in charge of organizing your local festival, fair, or flea market then you know how important it is to find good event vendors, it can help you to draw crowds to your festival.You may also want to consider hiring a professional event planner who can take care of the details of your festival and help make sure things go smoothly. Hiring a pro can let you focus on the big picture, while you let someone else handle the details. If you are just starting out with festival organization this is a great idea.

Finding Event VendorsFinding a performer for your festival can be tricky, because you want to make sure that your event vendor will fit in with the demographic of your festival and hopefully draw a crowd. Make sure you are in touch with the interests of the festival patrons when you look for the right event vendor. You can use a variety of tools to find the best event vendor for your art and craft festival. • Consulate other festival organizers. You can consulate art and craft festival planners who run big events in our around your area to find out who they use to coordinate their event vendors. They may also have a list of potential street vendors who are usually up for performing. Keeping good relations with other festival organizers can help you with useful tips and information. • Go online. There are tons of event performer advertising online. You can narrow it down to your area or if you are putting on a big art and craft show, then perhaps you can bring some out from out of state in for the fall festival. Going online gives you many ways to search for a particular genre of performers that you are interested in asking to perform for you. • Keep your ears open. Go to several festivals or events and see if there is anyone you like and simply approach them and ask them to perform at your festival. You can ask around to see where the local talent is, perhaps a coffee shop or bar. Staying in touch with community events can give you a good basis for finding the right event vendors. You can find people you like and then get them to perform at your festival.

Hiring An Event Planner If you are arranging a large festival, hiring an event planner is a really wise choice. Event planners can help you with the basic details of your event or they can arrange everything for you. You need to decide what you want out of your event planner first and then hire the best one. Here are some tips on hiring an event planner for your festival.

• First decide what kind of role you need your event plannerto play in your festival’s organization. Do you want someone who will be totally hands on or do you just need someone to handle specific duties. If you are new to festival organization perhaps someone hands on would be best or if you have a lot of experience hire someone to handle the details that you are too busy for. • Find someone who has done this type of event before. Check their references. You want to make sure you hire someone good. If they are good they will listen to you attentively and ask relevant questions about the event. • Take the time to interview and get quotes from several different event planners.

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