Yes, we are writing another blog post on price tags. If you are new around here and missed the previous posts from a couple of years back you can click on the links below. 

The Skinny on Price Tags (Feb 14, 2017)
6 Tips for Better Price Tags (Aus 15, 2017)

Price tags are pretty darn important. They are the deal breaker. When a customer checks an item for the price if the tag is missing you may lose the sale. If you have your item priced too high, you could lose the sale too. But having a pretty price tag can sometimes seal the deal. Maybe not for everyone, but personally am a sucker for tags. More times than I care to count, I have bought something because it was packaged pretty or had an attractive tag.

I know a lot of you don't bother with pretty tags because you are in malls that keep your tags. When talking to other dealers I hear this a lot. They figure why waste the time and money when the tag doesn't go home with the customer. I see your point. However, there is a way around this. You can use tags that are perforated. The mall/store can tear off the bottom half and leave the top half for the customer. This next photo is a sample of a tag that one of our readers submitted. She says the shop cuts off the bottom and the top goes home with the customer.

Tags come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. You can make them with crafts you have laying around the house or you can make them on the computer. You can also enlist the help of a graphic designer. Rubber stamps are one way to go. You can find them at any local hobby store. I knew one lady that used to save all her greeting cards. She would then use a die cut in different shapes to punch the paper out and then tie them with a pretty vintage ribbon.

I have seen everything from old playing cards, bingo card, flash cards to old photos and everything in between. When you have been in this business as long as I have you have seen a little bit of it all. So for those people that struggle with tags I wanted to share some inspiration.

This first picture is a business card that was printed through Vista Print. These look like 2.5" tags which I have always been fond of. I like this look better than the standard business card.
Christi says she prints 20 tags per page on brown kraft paper. There is something so elegant about kraft tags. These are generally my go-to tag as well.

Happy Monday friends. This is Dawn posting. Crystal had a procedure today So I'm taking over the blog. You haven't seen me around much lately. I have been super busy traveling with my job and when I do have spare time my very active grandbabies have most of my attention. I hope everyone is staying warm especially those of you in the frozen states.

Thanks to all of you that took the time to share your online store the other day. We know how hard it is to build a social media presence let alone get your name out there with an online shop. So I wanted to feature a few of the Etsy/Booth dealers. These folks are burning the candle at both ends, juggling both 'booth life and an online shop. My hat is off to you. How do you manage it all?

Go grab yourself a warm drink and enjoy some of the shops I am sharing.  The first three accounts are folks that shared their shop with us on Facebook.

Happy Sunday friends. Hope everyone is staying warm and safe out there especially in the upper states. It was rainy here yesterday and it has been very cold today so I stayed inside as much as possible. I think lots of us are getting cabin fever and itchy for Spring.

So for those of you that are cooped up, I thought I would share some printables with you. Maybe give you a little something fun to work on. We did a poll last Sunday asking if you would be interested in receiving printable price tags and the results are in. 140 of you voted. 129 said yes and while 11 of you said no. I am working on some fun printables right now. But in the meantime please enjoy these weathered looking price tags. You can find them at the bottom.

It was interesting to see the final results we did on the Farmhouse trend. I think I speak for most of you when I say true authentic farmhouse goods will always have a place. However the cheap massed produced, made in China, knockoff stuff is what I was referring to. I don't mean to include everyone in this statement, but I do think a lot of the millennials don't seem to care if it's a true vintage piece or not. They just want the look and they want it cheap.

So here are the results. 249 of you voted on this poll. 93 of you said it is starting to decline while 156 of you said it is still going strong.

We did a blog post on booth and craft show walls a couple of years ago. We didn't show very many examples so we thought it was time to do a new post and show some more ways to get creative. If you would like to visit the first post we did you can click to read it here.

Spring is right around the corner which means tons of junk shows, craft shows, festivals etc.  If you plan to participate in any shows now is the time to be thinking about those booth walls. We have been scouring the internet to find you some inspiration and here is what we have come up with. Some of these ideas would work for those of you that have an actual store booth, but no walls.

As usual, I'm late to the party on sharing this fun news. I'm sure all you Interior Designers and blog decor followers already know this. The Pantone Color Institute color for 2019 is Living Coral. Here is a little snippet from their website. 

PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral emits the desired, familiar, and energizing aspects of color found in nature. In its glorious, yet unfortunately more elusive, display beneath the sea, this vivifying and effervescent color mesmerizes the eye and mind. Lying at the center of our naturally vivid and chromatic ecosystem, PANTONE Living Coral is evocative of how coral reefs provide shelter to a diverse kaleidoscope of color.

You can click here to go to their page and read more about this color. So what are your thoughts on this choice? Do you like it, hate it? Will, you be implementing this use of color into your booth? What about all you furniture painters can you see yourself using this color? 

I have always liked Coral. It reminds me of Florida and the beach. This is a happy color my good friend, Jane of Jane Coslick Designs and Restorations uses in her work. She is an Interior Designer and Preservationist mainly at Tybee Island/Savannah, GA. Her work has been featured in countless magazines and books. If you need to see a little inspiration for this gorgeous color you can see more of her work on Facebook or Instagram 

I have been doing a little research and here is what I have come up with. 

Happy New Year everyone. This is our first blog post for 2019. We are going to try hard to be more active on social media this year. Speaking of social media ...long gone are the days of advertising in local papers and magazines. Let's face it social media is where it's at! Look at these staggering stats...

Social media statistics

• For context, as of January 2019, total worldwide population is 7.7 billion
• The internet has 4.2 billion users
• There are 3.397 billion active social media users
• On average, people have 5.54 social media accounts
• The average daily time spent on social is 116 minutes a day
• 91% of retail brands use 2 or more social media channels
• 81% of all small and medium businesses use some kind of social platform
• Internet users have an average of 7.6 social media accounts
• Social media users grew by 320 million between Sep 2017 and Oct 2018.
• That works out at a new social media user every 10 seconds.
• Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp handle 60 billion messages a day
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