Making a "Fan Page" - it helps sales!

A fun way to improve your sales and also get more feedback from your customers is to have a “Fan Page” on Facebook.

If you are not already a member of Facebook I recomend that you join. You don’t have to release personal information if you don’t want to, you can choose a format that keeps you private but just markets your work – the “Fan Page”. You could even cajole a friend who is already on there to make one for you!

Before I go any further explaining, take a look at my Bloomin’ Arty Fan Page
Click the “Become a Fan” button, if you are a Facebook member, and you will be able to follow the updates and various other tools I use to market my commercial work. (You can also then be eligible for Thankyou Gifts when I give them away! ;) )

A surprisingly successful thing that we did was launch our new Fan Page on Facebook with an actual “cyber party”. Matt Mawson and I invited friends by making an event and on the dot at 9pm we sat at our computers and had a virtual party. I was alone in my studio, with real bubbley and crackers, and other people were where-ever (USA, UK, etc). It went for 2 and a half hours! I was rushed off my keyboard replying to comments and chatting in the numerous open chat windows. It was amazing fun and completely unexpected as to the actual participation. We even made a sale! :)

You can follow some of the event at the site if you scroll down to the bottom of the wall

I would recommend some changes to how I worded and organised the event, in order to improve it, but the party went well anyway. :)

I would also recommend that all RB’s have a Facebook Fan Page, and that we all support each other to build up our Fan Bases.

Have a good day!
luv from RT xxx

That is very nice of you to promote other RB artists. You are very generous. I promote Matt Mawson. I have made an arrangement with him that he can have a bubblesite uner the Bloomin’ Arty name. He makes all the sales and profist from it ofcourse. But he also gets the extra marketing exposure too.

I have become your fan. :)

Good to see others are working on facebook pages. I’ve had one for a bit but only got serious promoting it recently. I’ll go ahead and share mine, too. I checked out everyone on the thread so far’s facebook pages and fanned you. :-)

Mark Tisdale Photography on facebook

I was wondering if the ads actually do work. Had considered doing one.
I did become a fan of your page, Robyn, and will do the same with others that post on this thread. It really does end up benefitting everyone involved by getting each person’s page more out there to be seen.

My promoting other artists is partly being nice :-) I like to help promote artists whose work I admire. It’s also a good way to keep people interested. They get to see a variety of art, hear about performers who are friends of mine that may interest them and it helps to keep my page filled with fresh content. I’m hoping it also helps draw people to RB and makes RB more of a presence on FB.
Working cooperatively with a community fo artists can only help all involved.

@Dan Perez. Good for you Dan. Did you know that there is an RB group called “Promote Each Other”. It is invite only, but they are looking for fresh faces if you want to ask the host to join. Ask Adriana, she let me join :)

And, good news on the FB advertising, I have now 100 fans! I started with 65. The cost has gone down actually. I think it is well worth it, they are already intereacting with my page.

@Dan, yes if you want to join the “Promote Each Other” group, just ask Adriana or me for an invite. Anyone actively promoting RBers outside RB is welcome!

I have found FB ads to be so fascinating, I keep on looking at my Admanager, collecting stats etc. I have been pretty happy with it. It has still cost around $1 per fan. The potential of keywords is awesome. I found keywords such as “buying online” “shopping” giving gifts" “surfing the net”. All indicators that the people who see the ad may actually be interested in buying online products. My CTR is .11. I would lov eto know your stats if you have some. !!

I have joined Facebook a couple of weeks ago to promote my art and photography as well (although there is never enough hours to do everything that needs doing! I Would really appreciate some return fans so I can get that magical 100 fan short url;)
South West Photography on Facebook

@ Robyn: Well, is there a difference between a commercial page and a non-commercial page? I mean do I have to pay if I have a commercial site? I think not or do I err?

I want to create a fanpage to promote my art and to link to my “shop” here on redbubble. Sorry for the dumb questions but I´m a very “careful” person or I try to be at least.

@Mark: You have heaps of fans Mark so whatever you are doing is spot on. I have just scheduled another ad, this time I have changed it a little and put in some of the keywords you suggested. I am running it over this weekend, I think you said that helps. I will be interested to see if this slightly different ad gets a better CTR or not.

Thanks Lacerda, I have spotted you on my page!! You happened to join up just when there was a frenzy of fans going nuts about Teddy Bears! Looks like I am gonna have to take some more Teddy Bear photos …. one fan apparently has 2000!!!!!

@Lacerda!! I get it …. you have a different name …. still the same bathing beauty! :D

I’ve had a facebook page for about a year but it didn’t do much. I only had 36 fans until this thread started and I decided to re-run the same Facebook Ad I ran for a week with little response when I first created the page.

I’ve now more than doubled my fan base in two days and they are all presumably people who are interested in painting rather than friends I said to “If you don’t become a fan, I won’t be your friend anymore.”

Oh and two people have already enquired about commissioning an oil portrait painting.

…and I became a fan of South West Photography