The “Faire” Way To Sell | Jannalyn Bailey

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Jannalyn Bailey | Episode 883

Curious Clay, established by Jannalyn Bailey, was born out of an rigorous appreciate of the handmade kind and the want to make attainable artwork objects. As a former painter, the existence of the artist’s hand in Jannalyn’s functions is pretty vital to her. Both of those the clay type and the glaze software retains the gesture from Jannalyn’s hand. Currently being to some degree self-taught, Jannalyn’s function is mostly slab-created with some aspect of hand forming/sculpting. Jannalyn hopes her performs can are living in new homes, and be a part of the slower times in the day, whether it’s your early morning cup of espresso or afternoon meditation. Jannalyn finds wonderful joy in building one particular of a variety pottery, and her hope is that that pleasure will come through.

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When you get involved with a faire, it’s an software process you really don’t just indication up and do it?

Yes. Like I explained, I used two or 3 occasions and I was denied all the times. The way that I truly got on there was that a shop in Georgia requested that I be there. So when a store requests that you as a brand be there you are an automated shoe in I guess.

For the getting aspect do they will need to go as a result of an application method also?

I never know. I think that they vet most people and make sure they are a brick and mortar and not a person who is trying to do low cost Christmas buying. And then if it is a keep that is on the net only that is a massive marker on their profile website page. You can also reject orders on there if I really do not want my stuff to be offered on a net only system I can say that this is not a superior match.

How are you really discovered by other people?

I think it’s just seeking close to scrolling through internet pages of pottery. There might be some tags but I am completely unfamiliar with the customers aspect. As I maker I are unable to seriously click on all around and see other maker’s offerings very simply.

So you can’t see how much other folks are marketing their wares for?

I imagine I can if I ended up to log out and go on to the Faire web site just as a browser, you know, any individual who is looking all-around on my individual, but I can’t navigate absent. Not that I know of.

Did you value your operate upwards to compensate for the value of executing business enterprise with Faire?

Yeah, and I have experienced to increase costs for a amount of good reasons. Partly since there are more folks working for me now. Partially simply because transport materials value an arm and a leg to even get to my door. The selling price of electrical energy, the price of clay, I did go absent from an area in Pennsylvania that experienced a ceramic offer store that offered a fairly significant value breaks at particular weights of clay and my present clay supplier is not in a position to do that.

Who pays for the delivery?

The retailer or if the retailer is a Faire insider, which I imagine is a every month payment of a hundred and a thing pounds then Faire handles the retailer shipping and delivery. So if a retailer does a ton of purchasing on Faire it seriously behooves them to be an insider. I never ever pay out for shipping. I pay back for transport materials and if you want to insert a packing charge to offset your expense of transport materials.

Does the delivery technique Faire utilizes permit you to use the no cost boxes from the US postal assistance? Precedence mail?

So when you punch in the excess weight and the proportions it populates UPS, FedEx, and USPS and it gives you 3 charges and recommends. What box you set in it doesn’t actually matter. I am under no circumstances delivery in anything at all lesser than a 13 inch dice. You have an option on Faire to make your possess label and then you have to upload the value of that label as properly as the monitoring amount and then they reimburse you.

What is the most pleasing issue of functioning with Faire?

It is just the arrive at. I indicate my function at this level has absent to Germany, England, it goes to Canada all the time. And the U.S, I necessarily mean I really do not want to say I am in all fifty states but I’m fairly darn near.