Vendor Question #1: What Can a Vendor Expect from this year's Fling?

Remember first and foremost that our goal in this event is EDUCATION. We want families to see the many options available to them as parents, from where to get their baby's first haircut to where to buy healthy food, even to where to shop for life insurance. We are not forcing any particular lifestyle on anyone, we merely want people to see the many wonderful options available to them.

Having said that, we feel that businesses and groups that are friendly to more natural parenting methods will suit this event best. We are strong advocates of breastfeeding anywhere a baby is hungry so know you will see nursing mothers and we expect at the very least kindness and respect shown to them (and if you want to cheer them on, we'd really love that!).

We have selected a great day for our Fling in order to maximize the number of people who attend. In the morning we will be hosting "The Great Cloth Diaper Change" event. Parents from around the world are all planning to meet at the same time and change their baby's cloth diaper at the same time in an attempt to set a world record. This will be happening first thing in the morning and we will have local news coverage and a large group of parents participating so we will start the Fling with a bang!

Later in the day around 12:30 we will be hosting an Easter Egg hunt (it is the day before Easter you know!). We have planned this hunt at a time when all the other community Easter Egg Hunts have ended so we expect a large crowd. We are asking every vendor to contribute at least one bag of candy (it is up to you if you want to put them in eggs or not, but we will NOT be providing the eggs) and if you want to contribute some prizes for kids to pick up directly from your booth (and GREAT way to get more foot traffic), we fully support that idea. We will talk more about the egg hunt on another blog post.

We will also have an earth day event. We are still working on the details, but it will be fun, free and another reason for people to get to our event, check our vendors out and have a great time!

With all these events, we know we will have a huge crowd. But... while we can get the people to come, we can't make them buy anything. That is your job. As it is the day before Easter, a lot of people will be interested in last minute goodies for family and friends so bear that in mind. With a little creativity and a lot of fun we know every vendor will have a great time, get a lot of exposure and make this Fling a huge success!