If you can't get into the shows you can't earn a living, the bottom line. For those of you looking for even 
more details visit Carolyn Edlund's Arts Business Institute blog where she explores in depth many of the business aspects of the fine art and fine craft business.
I'm liking this blog post there especially: http://www.artsbusinessinstitute.org/blog/how-to-get-juried-in-retail-and-wholesale-shows/ because she explores ideas for positioning your work for the wholesale business and appealing to galleries as well professionally as how to fill out that application so the shows want you.
Carolyn's been in the business for a long time and I interviewed her last Spring on ArtFairRadio.com where we talked about buy/sell and what show organizers can do about it.
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Some advertised art shows have been publishing false information. They are new and try to lure artists by claiming to have thousands of visitors and a hundred booths like Liberty Arts Squared has done. It's is a painful reality to have paid several hundred dollars plus a jury fee to be included in an art fest that has only 22 booths and a minimum of visitors as I have just experienced in the Zona Rosa show applied through ZAPP. I made not one sale.