[TheForge] Advertising your craft

Wed Mar 5 09:49:01 2003

i have various web pages. Two of which
will show up on s search. The rest are
pictures that I direct customers too. i
use it to answer the "Can you do this?"
questions.

The two that are accessible with a
search bring in a job or two a year. The
other help close deals. The whole
operation is less than mailings or
handout literature.

Web space is an easy inexpensive display
area that may generate some work. I
would not use it as a main
advertisement. It is also MUCH easier to
keep neat and presentable than my shop.

Mike Graf

"R.C.Mundt" wrote:
> 
> My whole deal started w/ an ad in a local advertising paper, I ran an ad
> pretty much continually for 3-4 years.  It's pretty hard to keep paying for
> an ad when you only get a ocasional call and only a small percent of them
> actually buy any thing. I read somewhere that the average person will read
> an ad 7 times before responding to it. I rented a booth at our local hom and
> garden show 2 years in a row , first was good , second  year was a waste of
> time.   The local newspaper did a story on me  about 3 years ago, got a few
> calls no work, atleast not imediatly.  I ran an ad in a paper in a
> neighboring city for several wks. w/ no response so stopped the ad. a yr.
> latter I got a job from that ad. Right now I'm in the yellow pages and thats
> all  its an easy way for people to find me.  People  who want iron seem to
> know I'm around now just wish more people wanted iron.  I dont have a web
> page, the business's I know w/ web pages don't seem to think they get any
> business from them.  I think it would be a good plkace to send customers to
> view your wares once they found you some place else.
> What do you guys w/ web pages think , do they bring in any work?
> Randy Mundt
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> From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:05 AM
> Subject: [TheForge] Advertising your craft
> 
> > Just wondering how most of the professional smiths here advertise their
> > wares and abilities? Im in the yellow pages of course with a link to my
> > website but am now looking at promoting a showroom Ive just completed via
> > local media. My goal is to get people to visit my real world "gallery" and
> > see the sort of stuff I can do. Ive got a quarter page coming up in a
> > national "lifestyle" magazine, that cost a heap, but am interested in how
> > anyone else does it.
> >
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