What we do
- Recruit the kids. We email every school, church, homeschool group, scout troop and youth league within about 20 miles of your market, plus the parent Facebook groups, and we run the signup page and payments.
- Sell the sponsors. We email every local business within about 15 miles with three sponsor tiers.
- Handle the paperwork. Stripe signup, parent waiver, vendor packet with your rules quoted word for word, family reminders, sponsor invoices.
- Supply the kit. Kids section sign file, sponsor signage files, trophies, cash prizes, printed certificates for every kid, a judging app and score sheets for your judges, a run sheet for your staff, and a recap page after the event.
What you do
- Give the kids section 15 to 30 spaces at your standard footprint, grouped together, with a spot on your map and your event page.
- Post it once on your Facebook and Instagram when signups open, and once the week of.
- Run the day the way you already do: placement, load-in, your vendor and food rules, your insurance.
- Judge the booths and hand out the awards. Sponsors judge alongside your staff. Awards take about ten minutes at a time you set.
Money
| Kid booth fee | $25 per space, paid to us at signup |
| Booth fees | Pay for the awards first (cash prizes, trophies, certificates). Everything left is split 50/50. |
| Sponsor cash | 70% to you, 30% to us |
| Who collects | We invoice and collect everything |
| When you get paid | Within 7 days after the event, with a one-page statement |
Awards scale with signups
| Paid kids | Awards | Awards budget |
|---|
| 15 to 19 | 1 per age group (6 to 10, 11 to 14) plus People's Choice. 3 awards. | $260 |
| 20 to 29 | 2 per age group plus People's Choice. 5 awards. | $425 |
| 30 or more | 3 per age group plus People's Choice. 7 awards, the Lancaster setup. | $600 |
Every award is $50 cash and a trophy, and every kid gets a certificate. The budget is the cash plus the trophies and certificates, and it always comes out of booth fees.
Worked examples
| 15 kids, $500 sponsors | 25 kids, $1,500 sponsors | Lancaster (39 kids, $3,500) |
|---|
| Booth fees | $375 | $625 | $975 |
| Awards budget | $260 | $425 | $600 |
| Booth fees left, split 50/50 | $115 | $200 | $375 |
| Sponsor cash, your 70% | $350 | $1,050 | $2,450 |
| You get | $408 | $1,150 | $2,638 |
| We get | $208 | $550 | $1,238 |
Sponsor tiers we sell
- Presenting, $1,000. "Kidpreneur Day at [Market], presented by X." Top logo on the section sign, the event page and every post, a table, a judge seat, hands out the awards.
- Award, $500. Named on one award, presents it, logo on sign and page, judge seat.
- Supporting, $250. Logo on sign and page, judge seat if open.
Want exclusivity in your area? Contact for pricing.
The rules we both agree to
- Your existing sponsors. Send us the list before we start. We do not contact them unless you tell us to.
- Minimum. If fewer than 15 kids have paid 14 days before the market, either side can cancel, we refund the families, and nobody owes anyone anything.
- Weather and cancellation. Your rain policy applies to the kids section. If you cancel with no rain date, we refund the families and refund or roll over the sponsors.
- Insurance. The kids section is covered by your event policy like any other vendor row. Every kid sells under a parent's signed waiver that releases both of us.
- First option. For 12 months we get the first option to run the kids section at your other markets within 50 miles of this one.
- Promotion. We can use the market name and photos from the day in our own promotion and recap. You can use ours.
Timeline
| Week | What happens |
|---|
| 0 | Agreement signed, your rules and sponsor list in hand, signup page live within 48 hours |
| 1 to 6 | Kid recruiting and sponsor sales run every weekday |
| 6 | Vendor packet to families, sponsors confirmed as judges |
| 7 | Certificates, trophies, run sheet, signage files and vendor list to you |
| Day of | Your staff runs it from the run sheet. We are on site for the first event. |
| Plus 7 days | Sponsors collected, you are paid, recap posted, next date booked |
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