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| Did I Just Solve All Your Art Marketing Woes? By Clint Watson |
| As we all adjust to the new normal after having been sequestered in our homes, we're all finding alternate ways to make the most of our time.So let's ask ourselves: How can we use this time to get better? How can we be of service and use?
I know, without a doubt that great art is being created around the world at this very moment. Perhaps by you! Our entire team is focused 100% on whatever we can do to help you market and sell more art.
With that in mind, we're focusing FineArtViews on sales and marketing ideas more than ever before. The following article was selected from our archives as it seems quite timely in the current situation and provides ideas we think you can use to improve your own art marketing.
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| If you read advice about improving your online marketing, you'll inevitably come across the advice to "spend time crafting the best possible headline". The common wisdom states that the headline is the most important attention-grabbing part of a post [1].
You're here readingthispost because the title"Did I Just Solve Your Art Marketing Woes?" grabbed your attention, did it not?
Unfortunately, the answer to the question posed in the title is "no", this blog post isnotthe answer to all your art marketing woes. Sorry.
I used a cheap, old tabloid trick: Take an outrageous - even counter-intuitive - claim and turn it around into a question that can simply be answered "no". Since it was simply a question, I haven't printed any falsehoods by posing it [2].
But I used the cheap trick to teach a lesson. While I'm not suggesting that you start writing headlines like"Will buying my art make you more attractive to the opposite sex?", Iam suggesting that you spend a bit of time crafting compelling, enticing titles for your email subject lines and blog posts. While a subject line of "check out my new art" might interest me if Ialready knowwho you are, try making it more interesting please. How about "Exclusive Preview of Art in My Next Show" or "Be the first to see the new breakthrough I've made with my Art".
Put on your thinking cap, I'm sure you can think of something more interesting than "check out my art". Your bottom line will thank you for it.
Remember,Sharing Art Enriches Life.
Until next time, please remember that Fortune Favors the Bold Brush. |
| Sincerely,
Clint Watson BoldBrush/FASO Founder & Art Fanatic
PS - UPDATE - I've since learned that this type of headline is known as Betteridge's law of headlines which states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines]
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[1] I'm not saying the headline is the most important thing overall. The rest of your article is obviously more important in other ways. But the headline is critical for the specific purpose ofgrabbing attention and getting people to read your newsletter, visit your blog or whatever. It's up to the rest of your post to keep that attention.
[2] I wouldn't recommend you use the cheap tabloid headline trick very often though, unless youwant to sound like a tabloid. There are other ways to be compelling without resorting to the type of trick I use for this post. By the way, the tech blog,Techcrunch is a master of this format headline. Here's their formula, which I copied for this post: "Did [Company Name] Just [Some Outrageous Claim]?" Examples "Did Apple Just Ban Sexual Content from the App Store?", "Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple in the Face?", "Did Twitter just Kill Tweetup....?" (look at the URL on the last one, they clearly un-hyped the headline after they got their traffic surge, but the URL gives away the original headline).
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| Clint Watson is a former art gallery owner and founder of BoldBrush, known for FASO Artist Websites, the leading provider of professional artist websites, the $38,000 BoldBrush Painting Competition and the free daily art marketing newsletter, FineArtViews. As a self-proclaimed "art fanatic", Clint delights that BoldBrush's downtown San Antonio, Texas office is full of original art, as is his home office. You can connect with Clint on Twitter, Facebook or his personal blog at clintavo.com. |
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