Scaling Your Market From 20 to 200+ Vendors Without Losing Your Mind
So your market’s taking off. What started as a cozy weekend gathering with 20 vendors has evolved into something bigger, maybe 50, 100, or even 200+ vendors wanting in. Congratulations! That’s amazing. Also, terrifying. Because what worked when you knew every vendor by name absolutely will not work at scale. Here’s how to grow without […]
How to Choose the Best Software to Run Your Farmers Market
You’ve reached that point. The spreadsheets are multiplying, vendor emails are buried across three inboxes, and you’re pretty sure you just approved the same application twice. If managing your farmers market feels like drowning in admin work instead of building community, it’s time to consider market management software. But not all software is created equal. […]
Your Q1 Market Planning Checklist: For The Organized Market Manager
New year, new markets, new you! (Okay, maybe the same you, but with better organization this time.) Q1 is the perfect opportunity to set your markets up for success before the spring rush hits. Here’s your no-nonsense checklist to start the year organized, efficient, and dare we say it, slightly less stressed. Review Last Season’s […]
5 Reasons Market Managers Are Switching to Hivey
Managing farmers markets, craft fairs, and pop-up events requires software that keeps pace with your workload, not software that adds to it. If you’ve been researching market management software, there are a handful that have been around for quite some time. But here’s what many organizers discover after testing other platforms and then discovering Hivey: […]
Marketspread vs. Hivey: Why Hivey is the Smarter Choice for Market Management Software
Whether you’re an event organizer or a market manager, searching for tools to streamline vendor applications, payment processing, booth assignment, and overall vendor communication, you’ve likely come across Marketspread. In fact, many event planners who discover Hivey tell us they’re either currently using Marketspread or are strongly considering it. But once they try Hivey, the […]