creating ambassadors
Creating Ambassadors for Your Biz
Yesterday, I bought a new pair of shoes. That, in and of itself, is not much of a shocker. I don’t even bother to try to hide my shoe obsession. What I did, however, after buying the shoes, may interest you. I took a photo of them with my iPhone and posted it to my [...]
Why social media?
(the following is an excerpt from my e-book: Guide to Getting Started with Social Media for Artists and Arts Organizations) Marketing is creating relationships built on trust. The days of heavy‐handed, high‐pressure sales tactics are gone. The advent of Television, mass print, and the internet made it easy for advertisers to get their products under our noses. But after many years of being bombarded with literally thousands of ads per day, we have developed the ability to tune it out. I see us returning to the day of the door‐to‐door salesman. In the ‘50’s, housewives often bought wares from a familiar salesman that came around at regular intervals. There was a trust between the buyer and the seller that was built on personality, and getting to know each other (for the seller, getting to truly know his housewives’ needs). While I’m not advocating you start trying to sell your artwork door‐to‐door, I am encouraging you to jump into social media because it is a very powerful form of relationship marketing. Relationship marketing works because if you get someone on your side, they will bring others to you. Think about products that you use in your own life. If you really love something, and are finding that it makes your life easier, won’t you tell others about it? You become, in essence, an ambassador for that product. And if you tell a friend and convert them, and then they tell someone… well, you get the idea. Social media makes this process painless, easy, and, immediate. Any marketer worth their salt will tell you that word‐of‐mouth is always your number one form of advertising. And the joy of social networking is that you have the ability to reach new, and perhaps untapped, markets, all from the comfort of your own computer. I recently came [...]
