Step Three: MARKETING A GO-GO

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SHARE YOUR ARTISTS WITH THE WORLD. Learn these 4 strategies to supercharge & automate your marketing.

1. SELECT YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM TO MARKET YOUR STORE.

WE RECOMMEND YOU CHOOSE THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM YOU LOVE TO WORK WITH:

Personal/Business Facebook Page

Instagram Page

Pinterest

Polyvore

Have you thought about using Polyvore, but don't know where to get started? It's a great platform! Read this.

2. AUTOMATE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA

What does automating your social media posts mean?

Did we mention we love to streamline? Time is gold.

Which ever social media accounts you choose, what is most important is consistency in your posts and interactions. Streamlining/automating your social media posts means you schedule ALL your weekly posts on Sunday evening to be published automatically at set-times during the week. Cool, no really, it's awesome and will save you tons of time!

Recommended Applications:

AUTOMATION: HootSuite (free) - Automation is everything! When you are ready to schedule the content that is saved in Pocket, Hootsuite offers the ability to post and schedule posts to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others at the same time for future posts! (Hootsuite is free for three social platforms (takes 5 minutes to set-up)

Pinterest Automation: Tailwind is a powerful application to automate your postings on Pinterest. You would download this application AND the bookmarklet within Hootsuite's App Directory. Pinterest automation is the only platform that requires you to dig around to find the right application for you to schedule posts. Tailwind is currently $15/month. (Here's a $15.00 discount)

Polish your Social Media Page!

Write a description in your social media page that describes your store's style on your social platforms and use Bitly.co to shorten the URL. You can also use Bitly to track the clicks through your links, this is good to know where your customers are coming from.

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3. SHARE CREATIVE CONTENT AND SEND USERS TO YOUR STORE.

This one is for the innovative marketers out there and is a technique widely used in the internet marketing space. Here's what to do:

A. (You just must!) Find content on Art Urbane's blog or really any content you love and want to share to attract customers.

B. (Recommended) Download Pocket and throughout the week, save stories to Pocket to schedule in your automations platform later.

C. (You just must!) Go to Sniply. (We LOVE Sniply.) You can sign up for a free version or pay to receive the supreme service.

How it works:

Sniply allows you to share content you love from anywhere online, and place an advertisement at the bottom of the content that directs users to your very own store! Here's a video to watch how this works!

Here's a live example of how we use this marketing tool (see our ad at the bottom of the page?): http://snip.ly/daby9

4. DUST OFF YOUR CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS.

Join our creative writing program, and write about an artwork or design, and you'll receive 5% profit of the first 20 sales, not to exceed $2,000.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM

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