Comments on: 20 Things I’ve learned After 20 Years Of Doing Art Fairs http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs Art, Animals, and the Creative Experience Sun, 20 May 2012 10:21:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs#comment-17792 MonaMajorowicz Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:29:02 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs#comment-17792 Howdy Pat! I think that's a somewhat accurate assessment. You need to be easily available. And yes I think you can project a certain emotion when you feel poorly. People are attracted to bright things, including personalities. It hard to be charming when you're sick. A person gives off subtle cues which people subconsciously pick up on and avoid. Howdy Pat!

I think that’s a somewhat accurate assessment. You need to be easily available. And yes I think you can project a certain emotion when you feel poorly. People are attracted to bright things, including personalities. It hard to be charming when you’re sick. A person gives off subtle cues which people subconsciously pick up on and avoid.

]]> By: pat wilson http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs#comment-17696 pat wilson Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:59:15 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs#comment-17696 Hi, Mona Am reading all your lens notes..... It seems to me selling is a lot about connecting with people, and if they think they are contributing to your discomfort, they pull back. Which is the opposite of what you need when you don't feel well....at least, you want the sales part to keep going forward. I hope your friends' back is better.....hard to work under that kind of pain.... Hi, Mona
Am reading all your lens notes…..
It seems to me selling is a lot about connecting with people, and if they think they are contributing to your discomfort, they pull back. Which is the opposite of what you need when you don’t feel well….at least, you want the sales part to keep going forward. I hope your friends’ back is better…..hard to work under that kind of pain….

]]> By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs#comment-7442 MonaMajorowicz Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:24:24 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs#comment-7442 I can't imagine trying to sell artwork at those kind of venues with physical issues. It's incredibly hard on me and I'm healthy, relatively speaking. So why do you suppose your sales went down? I can’t imagine trying to sell artwork at those kind of venues with physical issues. It’s incredibly hard on me and I’m healthy, relatively speaking.

So why do you suppose your sales went down?

]]> By: Robert Sloan http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs#comment-7422 Robert Sloan Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:08:28 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/20-things-ive-learned-after-20-years-of-doing-art-fairs#comment-7422 Excellent points, all of them. Of course the physicality of all that standing and moving around is beyond me, something I didn't realize at the time I was doing it. That affected how I did at any kind of fair -- at first before I'd blown my back I'd be getting a lot of interest and sales, but as soon as I got tired or sick no one wanted anything. Same with the street art. I would have done better going home anytime I felt bad than staying out and trying to push it. Excellent points, all of them.

Of course the physicality of all that standing and moving around is beyond me, something I didn’t realize at the time I was doing it. That affected how I did at any kind of fair — at first before I’d blown my back I’d be getting a lot of interest and sales, but as soon as I got tired or sick no one wanted anything. Same with the street art. I would have done better going home anytime I felt bad than staying out and trying to push it.

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