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Grumpy Artworks

9 Years Ago

Promotion Techniques

Hello lovely people, i am looking for some promotion techniques you guys use
please share your expierence with me.

I promote my artwork on facebook i have an artist page :
https://www.facebook.com/Rowanvdakker?fref=ts

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Jessica Jenney

9 Years Ago

Mike has responded. That's all the info you need. :)

 

David And Lynn Keller

9 Years Ago

You're right. Mike knows what he is doing.

 

Grumpy Artworks

9 Years Ago

I know that Mike
but there are more roads to rome
i would like to hear some other people.

 

Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

Some of us just let our computer do it.

 

Grumpy Artworks

9 Years Ago

that sounds like Magic Joseph, can u explain yourself?

 

Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

Rowan;

I'm being snarky referencing another thread on here. Mike offers the best advice, but I expect the best way to promote ourselves is one I haven't tried that much before -- off-line and in the real world. I'm a bit too snati-social for that.

 

Grumpy Artworks

9 Years Ago

I think you are 100% right Joseph takes real courage to offer people you're art wor

 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

Here you go, Rowan, my list of threads too ( guess I should put these all in one thread some day, as I share them so much )

Groups http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2048106

about.me http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2144651

LinkedIn http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2017595

Flickr http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1874455

Email Campaign http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1935582

Sorry they're all on Pixels, as I don't spend much time on FAA trying to make the transition.


 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

there must be a million ways, but many are secret, if you knew what to feed a goose to make it lay gold eggs, would you share that recipe? no. but for art its totally different. you can use all those methods and still fail, if you don't have work people care about.

you have to figure out who your audience is. how many people want drawings of chaotic lines? abstract is hard to sell. simply having a magic formula, will not make you sell. you have to find those people.

it starts with the art.

you have no descriptions in your work. - that's the first part of marketing, the stuff that happens without you having to do extra work. people are looking, and all they have is a loose random selection of words. without the description how are people supposed to find it? or know what it is, or if its for them or not.


next is the bio - that's how they find your main page. you have nothing written there.

then its how much work you have, and a having a selection.

if someone told you the secret is getting a 100,000 followers on twitter -would you go out and get that many? it won't work unless you can find a buyer. what i have listed should be fine if you do those things. anything else you'll have to find online, but they will say the same things.

you can market online, go door to door, visit cafe's, join a gallery, get a sky writer, tie scarves to ducks, tattoo it onto your forehead, make tshirt, have a bake sale, teach parrots in pet stores to announce your name dot com, replace fortune cookie fortunes with your name.... its endless, and insane. for now focus on making more work, and make things people may want to hang in a room, and that's it.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

If you just do what everyone else does, you won't stand out.

http://www.dogfordstudios.com/austin-kleon-show-your-work/

 

David King

9 Years Ago

Unfortunately selling art takes spending a lot of time doing a lot of things that hardly anybody really wants to do. I don't expect to sell much.

 

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