Poll: What's The Best Method Of Promoting Fine Art Sales?

The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll for September looks at the best means of promoting sales of your art.  It looks at the diverse ways inward which you lot promote your fine art to instruct people to await at it - which together with then converts to a sale.  It likewise provides you lot amongst an opportunity to percentage what industrial plant for you.

So it is:

• NOT almost where you sell your fine art - run across terminal month's poll 2012 Poll Results: What's the best house to sell art? (Part 1).  This poll is almost how you lot instruct people to the place(s) where you lot sell your art.
• NOT almost where you lot interact most amongst people - if none of that interaction results inward sales

What this poll is almost is OUTCOMES ie sales of your art.  It's trying to position what method of communication genuinely generates sales (ie non what you lot exercise simply it doesn't work). 

For example, having a weblog which never leads to traffic to the site where you lot sell - together with and then converts to a sale - could hateful either your fine art is non proving attractive to buyers or you're non blogging every bit effectively every bit you lot could do.  But this poll wants to know almost is what does generate traffic which converts to sales.

In fact, inward traditional marketing mix terms, it's about:

• the advertisement purpose of the Seven Ps
• the communication purpose of the 4Cs

Communications tin compass the sack include advertising, populace relations, personal selling, viral advertising, together with whatsoever cast of communication betwixt the job solid together with the consumer.

Quote almost advertising attributed to John Wanamaker

So, for example, if you're going to live on selling fine art inward an exhibition or an fine art fair, how exercise you lot nation people that there's an chance to run across your fine art together with how exercise you lot encourage them to become together with look.

Or mayhap you lot entirely sell your fine art online - how exercise you lot perish on people interested inward the novel industrial plant you lot are producing together with how exercise you lot instruct them to become to the house where they tin compass the sack purchase your art?

I'm going to focus on the ways I know people promote their fine art together with perish on it fairly simple.

Here's a listing of ways people communicate almost their fine art amongst a stance to promoting sales

• word of oral cavity (family/friends)
• word of oral cavity (collectors)
• business cards
• postcards
• christmas cards
• flyers / physical adverts
• online adverts
• email
• newsletters
• discount coupons
• portfolio publication / catalogue
• Twitter
• Facebook personal account
• Facebook Page
• own blog
• group blog
• own website
• art agent

The poll allows for multiple responses - therefore exercise delight banking corporation stand upwards for all the ones that you lot use.

The poll tin compass the sack live on establish inward the correct paw column - nether "Bloggers who Follow this Blog".  It closes at the terminate of 30th September 2012.  The results volition live on reported inside a twain of days.

Please travel out comments below indicating:

• what you lot notice are the methods which industrial plant good amongst by collectors
• what does non operate well.
• what of import method I forgot to include!

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