May 18, 2013

Crowdfunding a Trade Show Booth

Trade Show Booth

Kickstarter has tutorials on how to create a solid fundraising campaign. Rowan suggests researching other people’s projects for good ideas so that you can create your own appealing campaign.

Artist Profile: Erika Rosenbaum

Hexagon earrings in sterling with apatite and amethyst

As a former Gallery Director, I was active in marketing, merchandising, coordinating with artists, and launching gallery exhibitions. This helps me tremendously in understanding the business challenges from the retailer’s perspective, and being able to sell your product to their specific customer base.

Artist Profile: Houston Llew

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When you read a Spiritile, its story will connect with a certain part of life.

Pinterest Tips for Artists

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This social media platform lets you grow your network like branches on a tree, and isn’t “linear” like Facebook or Twitter.

Why Cause Marketing Really Works

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Creatives can add value to their work through words, sharing their stories, smart presentation and packaging – and also through connecting themselves with causes that they care about, and that their prospective customers care about also.

Press Kits with the “Wow Factor”

Trade Show Press Kits

When you attend a trade show, are you preparing press kits? If you are like 90% of artists, craftspeople and creative entrepreneurs who exhibit, you are not bothering to do so.

Artists – Get Press Savvy and Get Publicity

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Would you like to reach out to publications that cater to your target customer for inclusion in an article or to be interviewed?

Marketing for Artists & Craftspeople

Marketing for Artists and Craftspeople

The Arts Business Institute Guide to Marketing for Artists & Craftspeople” is a 133-page comprehensive, interactive business course that provides information on promoting and selling your work, specifically written for artists.

What Makes Wholesale Buyers Tick

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Although wholesale buyers might be a mystery to many artists and craftspeople, they actually have many of the same concerns you do.

Artist Profile: Pamela Whitlock

Whitlock Studio

My designs are complex weave structures called shadow weave that look very difficult to make but after weaving for over forty years are actually pretty simple to do.