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Sip 'n' Dip Australia
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH SIP 'N' DIP
There are plenty of benifits to working with a trademarked brand, run by professional events coordinators, who have been around the block a few times. Let us give you a few reasons why contractors choose to work with Sip 'n' Dip:​
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Established venues
Work in venues which have worked with Sip 'n' Dip for over 4 years. Slide your offering into a reliable repeat customer base, with on-site physical marketing you can enjoy established and well-practised processes and procedures (and staff) trained to run a seamless event.
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Less Pressure for large classes, and fewer cancellations
We pad out creative evenings with 2 - 4 small events across different spaces inside the venue and stagger the start times. This means it is not all on you to produce viable numbers for classes to go ahead on class nights and provides opportunities for you to run large, medium or small classes depending on your preference. Additionally, the flexibility to run masterclasses at a higher cost also becomes viable. We also rotate the offering every month between contractors, allowing clients to attend all of the classes on offer over a series of rolling months.
Reach new audiences
Sip 'n' Dip is a well-established long-standing arts and crafts class supplier with a reputation for innovation. We have run over 3000 events since commencing trade and boast a marketing database of over 33,000 subscribed clients. Our target market is women 25-65 located in South East Queensland and our social media touchpoints prominently reflect this avatar. Our Facebook page sports 28,000+ followers with 90% falling into this category, and with a combined 7 Instagram pages, 5 public buy-sell groups, Pinterest, TikTok and YouTube, we have built the platform to promote your small business and events.
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Paid Marketing, Active Marketing & Promotions
Enjoy a share in continuous paid marketing run through our social touchpoints, opt into sales, get featured and back-linked on our blog. Sip 'n' Dip will actively promote you and your business on our pages, stories and touchpoints to help support ticket sales. Enjoy being a co-host on the events and flow through traffic to help you grow your own social following. Further, we run activations throughout the year designed to raise awareness for our classes at our venues which help promote event sales. Sip 'n' Dip also has access to promote directly onto the venue's social touch points which means we can make posts, create stories and run paid marketing across the venues Facebook and Instagram without waiting for someone to process our request. Finally, Sip 'n' Dip is partnered with the Tourism and Data warehouse meaning our events are populated across all of the major tourism websites and local government facebook pages as we list them.
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Less Risk, more reward
We collect the fee for your class through a 3rd party provider which pays out automatically on the Thursday after the event. This means you are not holding cash or paying tax before your classes roll round, and you can enjoy a longer lead time with no financial ramifications.
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More control over your time
We work with our venues on a 12-month roster, which means you know the dates on offer and have your classes listed well before the date arrives. This longer lead time allows two a two-fold strategy, you get the benefits of a slow drip marketing strategy in the lead-up, followed by a 4-week sales apex in the month preceding the event. Finally, as classes are up earlier, they sell out faster, which means demand is created through a sold out class pipeline creating more consistent sales throughout off-peak periods of the industry year.
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Less Administration
You don't waste hours loading events online, creating Facebook events, publishing data to filter through tourism websites, setting up targeted ads/boosts, training venues, creating policies and procedures, working through administration, sending venue guest lists, and corresponding with clients. You focus on preparing for and delivering your class, and we will take care of the rest.
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Transparency
Leave your ego at the door when you work with Sip 'n' Dip, because we all rise together here. We provide clear and affordable pricing for our services, concise contractor agreements, retain high safety standards and apply a no-fuss approach to how we do business. We believe in the 'you get what you see' approach, and we retain contractors year on after year that are cut from the same cloth.
COSTS TO CONTRACT WITH SIP 'N' DIP
We believe in transparent and simple pricing and so all events listed through Sip 'n' Dip are listed at a rate of $15pp, added to the price of your ticket, and payable after the event as part of the payout process.
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All the costs and risks associated with your class are your own, this includes but is not limited to your supplies, materials, teaching costs, damaged caused to the venue by your class or clients and insurance.
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Included in your $15 payment are all of the benefits listed in the section above, and also includes your payment gateway fees, payout and listing fees and booking fees. Your fee does not guarantee a sold-out class, but it provides you with a platform and support you need to market your event.
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The booking platform where we hold your payments will not refund their booking fees for a cancelled class, therefore we have no minimum, which means that if only one ticket is sold you are still required to attend to the class provided the venue is proceeding with the other events on that date. If you need to cancel a class you are required to cover the booking fees and refund these directly to the client, if Sip 'n' Dip or the venue cancels we will refund those fees to the client.
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Contractors are still required to promote their event, we can provide you with tips and tricks on how to market your events.
WHAT KINDS OF CLASSES SUIT SIP 'N' DIP
Our customers love to attend affordable classes where they can try and experience new things each month, having new and interesting offerings will attract a variety of return business. More "affordable" classes result in more customers booking into your event. More expensive options, result in fewer clients.
Our classes include dinner and a glass of wine for $25 and is a price negotiated and offered consistently across all of the venues. We market this fee as part of the total fee and charge it in two parts. Customers pay for your class fee as the "deposit" and the dinner/wine deal on arrival direct to the venue as the "final payment".
Considerations when designing and pricing a class vary but include:
- Time needed to complete the project
- How your customers will travel home with their project
- The size of the project
- Costs of products
- Products needed and ventilation (all venues have an outside space)
A typical evening at one of our venues will see you onsite for approximately 4 hours, Classes are on Saturday nights 5:00pm - 8:00pm and an example of your timing would look as follows:
4:30PM - Teacher arrives to set up
5:00PM - Customers arrive and are seated by the venue/meal orders taken & delivered
5:45PM - Transition from meal session to class session/hand out class materials
6:00PM - Class Officially commences
8:00PM - Class pack up commences
8:30PM - Teacher exits the venue
You are not able to leave anything onsite at our classes, everything including the project must be taken with you or your customers when they leave. Your clients will have approximately the space they might have seated to eat dinner with their elbows out in which to work.
APPLY TO BE A CONTRACTOR
Sip 'n' Dip likes contractors to have 3 classes ready to go and launch at the same time. We will list 3 dates for you if your application is approved as a probationary agreement, and if your offering proves popular, and your class feedback is great we will offer you up to a 12-month agreement with dates.
Ready to take the leap and start creating and sharing art classes? We would love to meet you and see what you can bring to the table! below is a list of requirements, please collate this information and email a cover letter to hello@sipndip.com.au
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- a copy of your current certificate of currency for Public Liability Insurance (20 Million).
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- a copy of your blue card if your classes are designed for children.
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- For each event you want to list, include 5 high-quality marketing photos that cover a class in session, the finished product, the product in progress, and people engaging with your product to allow us to market your event.​
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- A high resolution photo of yourself accompanied with a resume, linked-in link or bio so that we can include information about you and promote you and your business as part of our event listing, blog posts or social media marketing.
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- Links to all your business social media platforms so we can mention you and your business in the comments.
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- For each event you want to list, include a copy of your risk assessment for your chosen class (download the form here).
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- Anything else you feel might be useful for us to know and make a decision
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It takes about 3 days to get your application assessed, once we have reviewed your application you will be emailed the following to review, complete and return:
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- The contractor agreement signed and witnessed.
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- The intellectual property agreement signed and witnessed.
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- The cancellations and events policy agreement signed and witnessed.
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- Venue damage and customer safety agreement signed and witnessed.
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You will know if you have been approved within 24 hours of these agreements being returned. It will take approx 2 weeks from approval to list and prepare the promotions and go live before tickets are on sale. You need a 6-8 weeks of lead time to your first class date.
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