Seattle Craft Fair

Seattle WA

Description

We'll get to the brass tacks soon enough, but I've realized that I should have a brief introduction... Please respond with a cover letter & resume. Tell us a little bit about yourself! Why are you interested in the job? What is your experience in sales? Etc, etc. We just want to get a better idea of who you are :) We are a small woodshop that makes and sells wooden kitchenware, primarily cutting boards and countertops. I started my business over ten years ago now from the humble beginnings of what was basically a dank and dirty cave, but since then I have grown my business into a full-time operation and I need your help as I head into my busiest time of the year! Also, I don't want to promise too much, but I'd love to have some contacts in Seattle for future shows, sales, and projects. JOB/EVENT This outdoor event will be held at Magnuson Park on 12/10-12/11 from 11am to 5pm. Set up will likely take a couple hours since you will have to unload from the road and carry our items to the booth, so with set up it would be more reasonable to assume that the day will run 9am to 5pm on Saturday and 11am to 6pm on Sunday. This event will also require accepting a freight shipment at your home address, loading in on the day of the event, packing up after the event, and awaiting for freight pickup at your home address on the Monday after the event. PAY $500 for the weekend TASKS You’ll need to accept shipments at your home address, take these items as well as items we’ve rented from the event manager (chairs, tables, etc) and set up our booth, pitch our products to customers and process orders for two days, and then close up the booth, pack up our products and prepare them for shipment. It is important that you read the Shipping Commitment at the bottom of this listing. It’s not too difficult, and we can guide you, but it is very important. You’ll need to familiarize yourself with our products, their descriptions, our business’ history, and of course the prices of our products. We will provide this information separately, but you should also bring your own copies for backup. You are… • Personable • Conversational (but to the point!) – you have to draw people in to make a sale, but if it’s clear they won’t or if they already have, you need to politely and naturally guide them to the end of a conversation. • A person who has some endurance and fortitude – you’ll be standing for a while, and it’s tiring • A gig, self-employed or work-at-home worker! If you’re working the following Monday, it’s going to make shipping our product difficult. Time flexibility helps. • Able to use your phone as a HotSpot device • Able to problem solve and • Use a little bit of creativity when setting up our booth • Energetic! You’ll be in front of a lot of people for a few hours. • Able to get access to a car (not necessarily applicable for NYC shows) EXPECTATIONS / What you will provide You’ll need to accept the delivery containing our product, store it, load up the night before so you can arrive a couple hours before the event begins. Since the event starts at 10am on the first day, it’s wise to arrive at 8am. If any of our product appears to be damaged or something, that should be set aside and not displayed for sale as it negatively impacts the image of our brand. As the event approaches its end, this can be reconsidered. You will also need to accept Payments using a card swiper that connects to our Tablet. We may need to rely on your phone for WiFi to make this work. This doesn’t require much though so it shouldn’t be wearing away data on your data plan. Keep in mind that not all spaces have WiFi though, so if you’re using phone a lot, that will. Each day has its periods of high volume, when the number of potential customers seems to increase. This usually happens sometime between noon and closing. Naturally, we want you to take breaks, sit down and rest but when attendance seems to be higher it is important to stand up, greet people with a simple “hi” or “hello” as they walk by – just try to engage them. This also means you should use your mornings to conserve your energy. Speaking of energy – remember to bring your meals, snacks and beverages to the booth! Get a lay of the land and locate the bathroom before the doors open; asking someone at a nearby booth to just keep an eye on our stuff while you’re gone for a minute has worked fine in the past. PLANS that remain tentative We are working out if we want to incentivize customers to buy products at the booth or to place online orders with you which we will ship. We will ultimately offer both, but there might be a special discount for those placing online orders at our booth. The second idea we’re playing with is keeping Zoom call running during the event so that I can help assist you with customers, their questions and potential sales. The Wifi location of each event will be different, and you may be asked to use your device for a few things like these, for which we’re happy to reimburse you for. WHAT WE WILL PROVIDE We are providing the product, as well as tables, covers, tents for outdoor events & chair (these have either been rented from the event organizers or we’ve purchased and shipped the items.). We are also providing a card swiper for our android Tablet. We will also be available to answer any questions you might have the day of the event via text. As mentioned before, items like food & beverage will not be provided and you are expected to handle that yourself. Food and beverage will likely be at the event, but expect prices to be more on the luxury end than at the discount end. SHIPPING COMMITMENT (doesn’t apply for NYC) The product will need to be shipped to your home address, and then after the event you will need to ship the product. It is very likely that we will have to ship our product Freight. This means that a semi-truck will have to stop in front of your house, be in contact with an actual person at the residence during business hours and get a signature when picking up and delivering. Freight shippers also work on specific schedules, ie – nearly always Monday through Friday, 8am to 1pm or 1pm to 5pm. I’ll be blunt now : this process isn’t fun and it’s a lot of waiting around. Freight shippers can’t give specific times, and they are often later than they expect. It’s recommended that you have something else to do while you wait so that you’re not waiting. When the package arrives, please take note of how everything is packed so you can pack it up in the same way when preparing it for pickup. Consider taking photos for a reminder. Normally, we wouldn't get into these details for a job description but this is an often overlooked part of the process that is quite important.