[TheForge] Advertising your craft

Wed Mar 5 19:37:01 2003

Randy;

My experience with creating a web site has been most positive and it is how
I get 90% of my work.  Blacksmithing is just a hobby for me though, so
without further promotion locally, my web site work would not support me
full time.  The work does in fact pay for all my materials and a few goodies
besides.
Most of my clients are American ( I live in Canada) and a definate plus is
all the nice folk that I have met.  By the time all is decided, you have
usually exchanged quite a few emails and by the time they get the job
delivered, they feel like part of the family.

Harry Foster
Rusty Dog Forge, in Pontiac Quebec
http://pages.infinit.net/rustydog/home.htm

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Advertising your craft

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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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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