Double Your Earnings: Promo Ideas
This morning we’ll be launching a double your earnings promo, giving you the chance to earn twice your mark up for the next three days. For those who’d like to take the opportunity to get stuck into some promotion, we’ve come up with some suggestions to help get your brains into gear:
Hold your own promotion. Reduce your mark up or run a competition where someone can win an original work or offer something extra to those who purchase over the next few days. Make sure you tell people about it too – Email, Facebook and Twitter are a great way to do that.
Take some fresh photos. Have you purchased art from RB or given someone a gift? Dust them off and take some fresh photos. If it’s your own product, pop the images in your description, if not, share some love and drop the artist a bubblemail with a link to the photo (you might even win yourself a $30USD voucher if you catch Mr Baxter’s eye)
Turn your workplace into a mini gallery. Take a card, calendar or artwork into your workplace. Place it on your desk or somewhere in your office where people can see it. If you have a public bulletin board or a classifieds section on your work intranet, create an ad and post it for your colleagues to see.
Revisit one of your works and add a more detailed description. Tell us the story behind how it was created or share comments from someone who has bought your work and left feedback. Post a link on Facebook, Twitter or your own blog and tell people what you’ve updated.
Offer to customise a work. Let your friends and family know you can make up a calendar, design a t-shirt or create personalised cards.
If you’re planning any of your own promo activities over the next few days, we’d love to hear your ideas. Let us know in the comments below!
Karen Scrimes
Hi Nat,
I take your advice!! My most successful sales have been at work. I take in samples of my calendars and cards and some matted prints and then send an office-wide email to colleagues. The response is generally GREAT!! I now customise calendars and the like for colleagues and have even received work in family portraiture and next year a wedding!
It’s all good. Thanks for the info, it really helps!
cheers
Karen
Janis Zroback
Most of these ideas I have already implemented over the past two weeks..
I have offered a special gift to those who buy my cards, but I have to tweet the info now…
I have redone works and tweeted them…my work place is my painting studio so none sees it but I…however it_is_ coverd with my work…
I am currently designing stickers to go on the backs of Christmas cards that will link to RB…
o0OdemocrazyO0o
nice work…
now if only my work mates had money… (in New Zealand we get paid in stones and nick nacks… i once got a button!)
Wish us luck :D
waitin' for rain
Twitting of course – :My twitter”:http://twitter.com/stran9ee
Promotion on my FaceBook Fan Page – Victor Bezrukov Photography
Lynnette Shelley
I am offering a chance for a free signed and matted print (from my own online store at lynnetteshelley.com) to anybody who buys two or more items (with the exception of cards) at my RB store for the month of November. Anybody who purchases two or more will be entered into a drawing in early December.
Imber
Great! I just started my Pre Christmas Sale :)
AnitaInverarity
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice ONE- Thank you so much RB xx
AngelArtiste
I don;t know if anyone would want to advise me or not, but how on earth do you Tweet about a sale? Twitter is not for advertising, is it???
selling replied
Hey AngelArtiste – Try this journal we wrote a while back. Cheers!
Tom Godfrey
Cheers for the advice guys
madworld
One sale would be good let alone doubling it heh :P
Beth Clark
What a bunch of great ideas!! Thanks for sharing them and making it easier to do what we love!
luanda
TNX RedBubble! I LOVE YOU ALL! And TNX to ya,Nat, of course! ;-) Luv
Josh Hakman
I’m currently exhibiting four photographs at Red Door Creative gallery’s Spring Has Sprung exhibition. As a promo I sent them a greeting card of each image for their front desk. Below is an example”
AlienVisitor
Thanks for the tips!
“May you always create well and prosper”
AV
robpixaday
I lost my job (aaack!!) so I can’t advertise there, but I’ve TWEETED, journaled, blogged, made phone calls, and emailed AND gone door-to-door in my neighborhood. I’m promoting my little heart out!
So far no sales for me, but maybe people are looking around on RedBubble once I point them there.
in case anyone wants to be a walking billboard. I hope we’re allowed to do that.
And I just made this:
thank you for all the tips!!!!
Philip Johnson
I am testing diffeent ways of selling calendars
1. Offering buyers the ability of choosing their own images to include in a calendar
2. Offering the Ability to add a recipients name to the front page of a calendar
3. Reducing the price of a calendar if bought in large quantities
4. Dropped my calendars for a period by 30%
nexus7
They all sound like ideas worth trying out…...
cobbybrook
Good advice. Strangely enough I have sold the most original work through my Facebook page…
Jan Timmons
Good ideas, worth trying. Here’s one of my ads:
Diana-Lee Saville
I posted on my Facebook Fanpage Fleachange have sold two cards in the past 24 hours!!! My most popular selling work…
alkukitz
Go to your local library and offer xmas cards to sell. Negotiate a price where you split the proceeds, you get your name and product out; they get money. It’s a win-win situation.
K Bock
thank you for this fantastic bulletin!
filled with great ideas ~ and great ideas from artists in the comments, too!
Sharon Perrett
Tried all that to no avail, anymore suggestions please…......