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Today, Friday March 26, is the last date to nominate your store for Home Accents Today's 50 Retail Stars list. CLICK HERE for more information.
The deadline for saving on booth prices for both
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MEMBERSHIP NEWS
CRAFT is now accepting American Express for membership dues. This option has been added to the website, or you can contact Laurie Wickham at 305-664-3650 if you would like to join or renew by phone.
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Have you read a blog or an online article that you found interesting or helpful? If it was helpful to you, it will probably be helpful to other gallery owners and artists.
Send it to me at rani@randomactsart.com to be included in our weekly newsletter.
We need photographs for the American Craft Week web site and brochures. From artists, we need photographs of you, your work and you at work. From galleries, we need photographs of your galleries and displays.
Any photographs used on the web site will be a hotlink to the artist or gallery web site.
Please send high resolution images to
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by Michelle Keegan, Constant Contact Email Marketing Expert
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"I think over time we'll see small businesses adopting e-mail marketing because it has the inherent advantages of being 'faster, cheaper and easier' to execute. Coupled with the potential to target more precisely than today's solo or shared mailers, there's a real win for the small business owner." Source: Neal Polachek, senior vice president of The Kelsey Group.
Remember
As a CRAFT member, you receive an additional 10% discount when you pre-pay for 6 or 12 months of Constant Contact. To see how those cost work out, based on the size of your mailing list, check out the charts on this page. If you click on the Non-Profit Prepay tab, you will see the prices you pay as a CRAFT members.
Sign up for a 60 Day Trial by visiting 
If you are already a Constant Contact user, all you need to do is send your username to info@craftonline.org and CRAFT will take care of the rest.
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 American Craft Week Update
As more excitement grows about American Craft Week, here's a glimpse at what's ahead. First, the American Craft Week web-site is getting a transformation. The present site was entirely the volunteer effort of New Mexico artist and CRAFT board member, Robert Rickard, who we cannot thank enough.
However, as Craft Week grows, so does the site. On the second site version, there will be a PARTICIPANT area, which will be password protected. When this is active, everyone involved in American Craft Week can log on and download logos, banners, ideas, the essay contest, media releases and so much more. And there will be a place where you can list your events and link to them as well. We'll be sure to let you know when this ready!
As part of their sponsorship package with American Craft Week, American Style magazine is working on advertising opportunities for all participants. The details will be available soon and sent to all participants. This is good news for two reasons: first, your event can be publicized to a huge audience. And second, American Style is donating the profits from these ads back to American Craft Week.
What You Can Do Now
- If you haven't already, sign up for American Craft Week. To do so, e-mail info@americancraftweek.com and give your business name, address, phone, web-site, contact person and e-mail.
- Mention American Craft Week to everyone, especially fellow artists, gallery owners and arts organizations. Direct them to the web-site as well. We are working on a snowball here - so please, get rolling!
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