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(not sure if this would be the best place for this post but had a look through the page directory and to me this seemed the best spot if not MODS please let me know where would be a better spot for it)
I am looking for effective marketing ideas. I made myself a website and have had it re-worked by a friend of mine who is a commercial web designer. I have a facebook page for my knives and also a personal one and I link to my website via status updates a few times a week. I had a bunch of basic B&W buisness cards made up and hand them out whenever an opening is presented (I dont want to seem pushy) There is a local metal art show and sale coming up at the end of september that I have been invited to attend (not sure if I can swing it) I have no issues selling my work to local floks who are able to stop by and see and touch my knives. but I want to expand my customer base before I totaly saturate my local market then have to think about it. I am fully aware that making knives will never make me rich and famous but for it to be self funding or perhaps someday to pay the bills doing it would be more than I could hope.
At first my website was getting between 20-50 hits a week with a few emails, but no sales.
I would notice an influx of page hits on my site when I posted about the site in FB but now not nearly as many, still no sales.
I have had success with my buissnes cards generating quite a bit of intrest in the form of emails and a few orders.
Word of mouth has been my best resource toward generating site hits, emails and orders.
How do you guys market, not just your product, but your sites and yourselves?
I am looking for effective marketing ideas. I made myself a website and have had it re-worked by a friend of mine who is a commercial web designer. I have a facebook page for my knives and also a personal one and I link to my website via status updates a few times a week. I had a bunch of basic B&W buisness cards made up and hand them out whenever an opening is presented (I dont want to seem pushy) There is a local metal art show and sale coming up at the end of september that I have been invited to attend (not sure if I can swing it) I have no issues selling my work to local floks who are able to stop by and see and touch my knives. but I want to expand my customer base before I totaly saturate my local market then have to think about it. I am fully aware that making knives will never make me rich and famous but for it to be self funding or perhaps someday to pay the bills doing it would be more than I could hope.
At first my website was getting between 20-50 hits a week with a few emails, but no sales.
I would notice an influx of page hits on my site when I posted about the site in FB but now not nearly as many, still no sales.
I have had success with my buissnes cards generating quite a bit of intrest in the form of emails and a few orders.
Word of mouth has been my best resource toward generating site hits, emails and orders.
How do you guys market, not just your product, but your sites and yourselves?