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Marketing Your Creativity: Arts and Crafts Entrepreneurs Marketing Workshop

7 Winning Strategies to Market Your Art, Generate More Clients and Grow Your Business in Tough Economic Times

This is a dynamic two-hour workshop on arts and crafts marketing strategies and practical approaches to success marketing your arts and crafts creations. The workshop is a must for artists and crafts entrepreneurs who desire to maximize their marketing efforts and reap the returns. Creative entrepreneurs working in visual arts, crafts, and even performers can benefit from this valuable workshop.  If your creativity is expressed through needlework, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, fine woodworking, illustration and visual arts, printing, glasswork, or other arts and crafts this workshop is for you!

Workshop presenter Marga Fripp has extensive experience training and coaching thousands of foreign-born and American-born artists how to think outside the box and develop creative marketing strategies to sell their art, how to develop and market a winning portfolio, how to stand out from the competition, turn fans into buyers, and build a dedicated following. 

Workshop Registration Dates & Locations

The seminar will address topics and strategies such as how to:
•    Develop a winning artist portfolio
•    Stand out from your competition
•    Find your niche and build a following
•    Use your creativity and innovative ideas to market your art
•    Focus on your customers, reward and retain them
•    Explore additional sources of revenue from your art
•    Increase your confidence, build perseverance and win the game

Registration - When and Where:
Click on the link for the date and location of your choice for registration information.
*A minimum of 10 registrants is required to hold each workshop. So bring a friend!

 

Arts and Crafts Entrepreneurs Marketing Workshop Schedule

Dates Places Times
Tue., March 23 Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo 6:30 - 8:30 PM

 

Presenter
Marga Fripp, is an art marketing coach, journalist and social entrepreneur has over 13 years experience in marketing, art management, media relations, gender and entrepreneurial development. She is passionate about to helping artists to start, expand and market their art businesses and make a living from their art as entrepreneurs.

Marga is the President of Empowered Women International, an award-winning non-profit organization that promotes the arts and cultures of immigrant and refugee women in the Greater Washington DC area, and creates sustainable livelihoods through the arts. Marga and her work have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, WETA and have appeared on The Voice of America Television and WUSA 9News, among others.