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SueAnn Help Advisor, Banner SponsorJul 3, 2005

Hi, Ladies (and Gents) . . . I bought a wonderful book when I started participating in bear shows and it was invaluable for giving superb advice!  The title of it will tell you what I mean . . . Selling Your Dolls & Teddy Bears by Barb Lawrence Giguere and Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh.  The copyright date is 1997, the year I started out in bearmaking.  I highly recommend it to any of you who are beginning to do shows.  Just to tempt you, I'm going to list some of the topics that are discussed at length:

Researching your field
Making your dolls and bears the best they can be
Pricing your dolls and teddy bears
Marketing yourself along with your dolls and bears
Photographing your dolls and bears
Media publicity
Advertising
Sales booths
Selling at shows (There is even a "recipe" for building your own display shelves!)
Selling wholesale
How to keep 'em coming back

I checked at Amazon.com and they DO have the book . . . new and used priced from $0.99.  YES, that's 99 cents, folks.  Can't get a much better price than that unless they want to give it to you!!    Really, this book answers a lot of questions that I had when I first started out.  It may be a tad dated by now, but it still has valuable information.  Hugs,