GCU Forum - Advice

Brian_137785 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 36	Advice Sep 23^rd, 2009, 9:44pm Hello Could you kind people advise me. How to I get more click, traffic, to my store and images. I average roughly three click a day on my store and about three click a day on my images,over seven days.That is on some 230 illustrations. Any advice would be appreciated Regards Brian
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Tanya_135475

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Reply #1 - Sep 23^rd, 2009, 10:04pm

Morning Brian

I find the things Corie said are pretty spot on ::: Link pending Wink

http://www.squidoo.com/makemoresalesatgcu

http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1246989400

Your cards are lovely I like them lots, I also every month or two add my store to the free search engines, auto twitter, facebook

always good there, blogs, I do have my own website but not quite finished it yet, it will be mainly advertising I think, www.avalonbears.com.

Join if you can the GCU twitter and GCU Facebook as well keep you updated n all that stuff

Hope it helps a bit

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Moonie

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Tom_133317 Gold Member artist Posts: 2169	Re: Advice Reply #2 - Sep 23^rd, 2009, 11:02pm Read the 3 dos and donts thread in Artist Chatter. Some good ideas there. Still, things seem very slow the last few weeks!!! I'm still getting good traffic but sales are thin.
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Jeff_135713

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Reply #3 - Sep 23^rd, 2009, 11:38pm

It seems to be a very, very slow time, but holidays are coming soon.

You should see an upturn in the near future and as people see your great cards I think you will do well.

You can help by bringing people to your store, there are lots of great threads of ways people are doing that both on the web and in real life. Tom had some great suggestions about marketing yourself using 4x6 photos as mini posters.

Wander through the Artist Chatter threads from the past, there is a lot of gold in them.

-Whisper-

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Doreen_137017

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Reply #4 - Sep 24^th, 2009, 8:30am

Hi Brian,

Tom, Moonie and Whisper have given you great advice. Lots of great info in previous postings.

You have great cards! I did want to mention something after just visiting your store. Many of your cards have important elements too close to the edges.

Here is an example of wording that may be clipped:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/shopping/zoom.asp?pid=485691&w=1&ref =details_large_view
Here is an example of design elements that might be clipped
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/shopping/zoom.asp?pid=485684&w=1&ref =details_large_view

I just wanted to mention it because your cards are really beautiful, but GCU does not print full-bleed, so before the holiday sales come, I thought you might want to fix many of your card images by giving a 1/4-in border around the edges that is clear of text or important elements. There is a template you can download if you like, you'll find it where the images you've uploaded are.

Good luck to you!! Great sales ahead!

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Brian_137785 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 36	Re: Advice Reply #5 - Sep 24^th, 2009, 10:51pm Thank you all for the great advice. Kind regards Brian
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