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Food and Crafts for Profit

Monroe and Pike Counties continued to provide a Food and Craft for Profit workshop this year. The focus of this year’s session was on sales options and displays. In addition to the workshop portion of the day, three tours were arranged at local food and craft businesses so that participants could visit and see first hand what makes these businesses successful. Thirteen people attended the workshop and identified the following:

  • Sixty two percent felt the information they received on sales options was very helpful. Four people identified a new sales option and an additional 4 decided that a certain sales option was not for them.

  • The four most important display principles that were identified were: lighting, setting out samples, grouping like things together, and changing displays frequently.

  • The comments made most about what was learned from this workshop were:

    1. Do your research! Learn about the area, people and the product you plan to market.

    2. Learned new ideas on how to get started.

    3. It is a lot of work to own your own business.

Speakers at Food & Craft for Profit Workshop included
(L to R) Sandy Fisher, Cherry Valley Apiary; Terri Lisa, Paradise Craft Bizarre;
Jeff Warner, Pottery Crafter; and Janet Briggs, Janet & John's Homemade Pies.



Mickey Miller, of Theo B. Price,
Mountainhome, talks to the group on
Designing Creative Displays
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