We opened up an Art & Antiques Gallery several months ago (first time business owners - new strip mall)...business has been slow...winter was off season for Florida - and season has not kicked in yet! We have advertised in local papers...but need something original to catch perspective buyers shoppers interests, and get them to come into our Gallery....Thank you.
2006-10-17 12:00:10 · 3 answers · asked by angelzwhim 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Other - Advertising & Marketing
Try having some type of appraisial show. Encourage locals to bring in items and have them professionally appraised for them and show them items of that similar time period. Or some type of way to get the crowd/customer involved in guessing on the time period of an item you have in the store.
Get tents and move outside in the parking lot with your items. Have picnic tables on a nice day, offer food and discounts. Hire someone to get into a suit of armor, dress like a king. Maybe you could hold an outdoor, life size chess match, get contestants in scissor lifts with a board drawn in the sidewalk, maybe do just checkers with the people dressed up. Dress artists as famous painters, offer art education to kids, face paint, have a class with adult artists. Encourage an art contest with different age groups in the community, encourage art trading and bartering through your store.
Have a spot the fake sale. Customers get a discount on any print or painting if they can tell which one is the fake. (requires a little work on your part).
Offer in home appraising, offer the pick up of certain items at residences for sale in store.
Good Luck.
2006-10-17 13:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by dml2410 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Give to the public and then stand back. Take your antiques around to local nursing homes and let the people tell you their stories about them. Then get the local paper to print one each week.
Get t-shirts: Front reads= Old is Gold back-store name
Get colonial white wigs and painter smocks for the staff to wear. Have one walk around the mall w/ sign on back each hour.
Line up the local school district calendars - black history mo. is Feb. What do you have that you could take and show...and a coloring paper w/ store name on bottom?
Work ebay while you are waiting.
Offer to take digital pictures of people's antiques if they bring them in. All information confidential and printed out.
Open your store to antique Q & A on night a week. I have no idea where to get 3 gold fillings evaluated. Tell me something/give me something and I'll remember.
Art is harder because it has become so international and personal taste. Try a "display" drawing once every 1/4. The person has right to display at their home for .....
Offer local business a rotating art display - 4 or 2 x a year.
2006-10-17 20:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sigining from national artists who will remark prints or lithos. cross promotion with sci fi or comic shows or movie theaters with art such as star wars.star trek etc.
you can email me at koalatcomics@hotmail.com if you have any questions about this or have further interest...note...im not selling anything or representing anyone...i promoted shows and know what im talking about.
2006-10-17 19:03:59 · answer #3 · answered by koalatcomics 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋