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Marketing Monday: a 21st Century strategy for artists

2009 by Bill

His­tor­i­cally, the process of sell­ing goods and ser­vices fell gen­er­ally into what came to be called the Sales Fun­nel Model. In this model busi­nesses offered their goods and ser­vices through adver­tis­ing cam­paigns that were largely aimed at the con­stant stream of poten­tial buyers…this was a mass sales approach. Busi­nesses would “catch” poten­tial buy­ers as they stum­bled into the wide mouth of their sales funnel…

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What 2009 will bring and how artists can lead the way.

2009 by Bill

Over the last few days I spent time scour­ing the web for fore­cast­ing trends related to small busi­nesses that could then be trans­lated to the world of artists espe­cially those rely­ing on art fairs as a major source of sales. What I found was a lot of hope (you read that right!) the catch is that hope will not be real­ized with­out a change in the way you do business.

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