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Creating Events For Increasing Fair Attendance
How do you increase attendance? Attract new patrons correct? And to attract new patrons, fair management needs to do some research and make some decisions. First, what demographic are you trying to reach? How do you determine which group to focus on? We have...
Emergency Planning Resources and Tips
Are you and your team ready to face an emergency evacuation of your Fairgrounds during Fair? And what if something happened during a non-Fairtime event? Have you reviewed your emergency evacuation plan lately? Is it fairtime specific or can it also be used at any...
One Idea For An Agriculture Education Display
What a clever way to visually present beef by-products to your fairgoers.
12 Simple Easy Low Cost Ideas For Creating Interactive Agriculture Exhibits and Activities
This book contains 12 examples of how to create low cost, simple, and easy interactive displays. From simple photo ops to using hashtags to promote your fair on social media, each of these ideas is very easy to create without a large expense. This book can be used as...
6 Tips for Running A Productive Meeting
Meetings are a necessary evil of any business, but they can easily suck away everyone’s valuable time. With a few careful choices in meeting planning, a savvy leader can ensure everyone gets the information they need, without wasting the day. #1: Schedule only what...
4 Reasons You Should Attend A Fair Industry Convention
Convention season has arrived! Whether it is a Regional, State, National or International convention – it is a great opportunity to meet and network with other professionals in the Fair Industry. Many times the decision to attend a convention or conference is based...
6 Financial Reports You Need To Review Monthly And Why
There are 6 reports every Fair CEO should be reviewing monthly. These reports are: Income and Expense Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Report for the current period Cash Flow Projection for next 6 months and past 6 months actual cash flow Accounts Receiveables...
What Makes County Fair’s Unique?
County Fair Definitions: According to Webster: a fair usually held annually at a set location in a county especially to exhibit local agricultural products and livestock. Wikipedia's definition of Fairs: A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a...
SketchUp for Layouts, Floorplans and More
Have you heard of Sketchup.com? It's a free software you can use for creating floor plans, layouts, exhibits, etc. If you don't have the budget for a CAD (computer aided design) software program, this is a great alternative with many bells and whistles. You can create...
3 Ways To Use Grants To Offset Costs
There are hundreds of thousands of grants available to Fairs. Unfortunately many Fairs don't have the staff available to do the work required to find, apply, and monitor the grants. In those instances, Fairs, of any size, could do three things: 1. Find a local...
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