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Selecting the Correct Entertainment For Your Fair
What is the Correct Entertainment To Provide For Your Fair? First of all, there are many definitions for the term “entertainment”. Google Definition: What is the meaning of entertainment? 1a : amusement or diversion provided especially by performers ie...
5 Best Security Practices For County and State Fairs
As many fairgrounds return to holding large scale events, including their annual fair, it’s time to re-evaluate your organizations fairtime security processes and policy(s). Another reason to do this - the high turnover of Fair Management and Staff due to Covid 19....
5 Ways For Increasing Ticket Sales During Holidays
It’s the holiday season and that means the public is looking forward to discounts. Fairs and Fairgrounds should be taking advantage of that concept as well. There are two reasons to offer Black Friday deals - first of all you’re continuing to keep the Fair event at...
Connecting With our Competitive Exhibitors During Shelter At Home Scenarios
We are in very uncharted and challenging times. Many of our fairgoers and competitive entry exhibitors have been mandated by their local government and/or health department to stay home. Some County/State Fairs, Livestock Shows and Rodeos have been cancelled for the...
Pandemic Preparation for Your Organization or Business
The Covid 19 Coronavirus has officially been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. With that declaration countries around the world are mobilizing to secure their borders, contain the virus, protect their people and prepare for the worst case...
Final Update On Creating New Events To Increase Attendance
It’s now 90 days after our Fair! I wasn’t able to post before we opened - so many new things going on and I just lost track of time! So here is the final update from our cultural events we created. We had a great Fair! I’ll start out with that. The weather cooperated...
Update on Creating New Events to Increase Attendance
Part 3 Creating Events To Increase Attendance We are 2 months away from opening day. Where have the days gone????? We have finalized the entertainment for the hispanic event, and we continue to work on the Asian Pacific American and the Indian American events. We are...
Three Steps Every New Fair Manager Needs To Do
So, you’ve been hired to be a Fair CEO! What does that mean exactly? Were you hired to “change things”, “bring agriculture back to the Fair”, “make the Fair more community focused”, or my all time favorite, “make the Fair better”? Do you really know what that means?...
Meeting with Media Partners for Fair Advertising and Promotion Planning
Part 2 - Creating Events for Increasing Fair Attendance One of the Fair's most valuable partners is the media who will help you spread the message about your fair, entertainment, contests, and everything else going on during the Fair. Regardless of the number of media...
Using Technology for Tracking Projects
I LOVE technology! From personal use to professional use .... there are so many options ... how do decide which one to use? First figure out what you need to track and who needs access to that information? If you have any team members that work off-site - you need a...
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