Regional Artisans invited to a Workshop “How to Establish and Maintain Wholesale Accounts” at The Wild Center on Saturday, January 16
The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) is hosting an annual workshop for both experienced and new artisans and craftspeople who wish to sell to regional gift shops. All are invited to register for the workshop, “How to Establish and Maintain Wholesale Accounts.” Artisans developing product for the new year will benefit from each others’ experiences, ideas and insights during the product review session. This year’s workshop, hosted at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, is on Saturday, January 16 from 10am to 2:30pm.
Nadia Korths, Craft Programs Coordinator for ANCA since 1997, facilitates the lively and informal hands-on workshop. Korths has presented this workshop, and others about marketing, to almost a thousand businesses since 2000. Josh Pratt, The Wild Center gift shop manager since 2007, will be copresenting. The $35 fee includes the 45 page How to Establish and Maintain Wholesale Accounts Packet. For more information or questions, contact Korths at 518.891.1632 or at nkorths@adirondack.org.
The workshop is also recommended for first time exhibitors attending ANCA’s annual gift trade show, Buyer Days, Wednesday, March 31 and Thursday, April l, 2010 at the City Center in Saratoga Springs. Shop owners will be writing orders and buying product directly from show exhibitors as they have every year since 1987. Applications to both the workshop and the show can be downloaded from ANCA’s craft website, AdkNCcrafts.com or received by mail with a call to ANCA at 518.891.6200.
The Adirondack North Country Association is a non-profit private corporation that strengthens the economy and quality of life in the 14 counties of northern New York through informed, open debate and advocacy on economic issues critical to the region and through region wide action on projects in agriculture, crafts, business and community development, forestry, human services, the arts and tourism.
One of the top destinations in New York, The Wild Center is where the wild world of the Adirondacks opens before your eyes. The Wild Center strives to ignite an enduring passion for the Adirondacks where people and nature can thrive together and set an example for the world.