11:00 – 11:50 AM SESSION
1: Ticketing Success in the Face of Adversity, Jeremy
Emerson, Saffire
As we'd like to showcase some eye-popping results both regionally and nationally for fairs combatting skeleton crews for ticketing/admissions and marketing.
GRANT
2:Finding Food Vendors and Representing your Diverse
Community,
Sunny Saunders, WSFA Service Member Director and TEI
Are you struggling to find food vendors? Do you have food that represents your community? Sunny, fair manager for over 8 years and festival event producer,will provide some insight and tools on bring more food and a diverse offering to your fair goers.
CORBIN
3: Off Season Events Using Grounds off Season,
Rebecca Martinez, WSFA Director and Grant County Fair
Jim McKiernan, Grant County Fair
You have this amazing facility that typically is only full during your Fair. What can you do to bolster revenue, increase staff and increase the amenities of your facility?
The first step is to figure out what you think you can do well and what you want the facility to be recognized for. The team from Grant County will discuss how they are shaping the facility, looking at their strengths measuring the competition and acquiring funding to keep their facility busy year-round.
FINCH