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Finding new clients
Posted: June 17, 2008, 10:13 AM
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| I am looking for marketing suggestions. Have a 3-month old HQ-16 w/Pro stitcher and I cannot seem to get new clients. I've done about 10 quilts from my wifes collection of tops and have gotten really good with the Pro Stitcher. Does anybody have any ideas? I have left business cards and a few flyers at fabric/quilt shops and sent some to quilting guilds. How aggressive does a guy need to be? I'm completely new at this and have been putting out word that I specialize in computerized pantos for the "everyday" quilt, since I don't yet have the skills to work on "show" or "heirloom" quilts. Any thoughts, PLEASE? |
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Finding new clients
Posted: June 17, 2008, 12:43 PM
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| If you have quilt shops in your area that don't have longarm capability inside the shop you could offer to quilt store samples in exchange for advertising. They could put a small sign on the quilt with your information. That way people find out about you and see a sample of your work even if they don't take the quilt shop's class |
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Finding new clients
Posted: June 17, 2008, 7:47 PM
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| If you have some local radio stations you might see how much is their ads. Also, take out an ad in the local newspaper in the Classifieds and see if you can get it listed under SERVICES and maybe MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. But you do need to get some sample work out there. That will help alot. If you decide to clean out the quilt room and get rid of some of the "surplus" fabrics and sewing notions, have a garage sale, hang up some samples of your work at the sale and make sure all the customers, especially the ones that look over or purchase the sewing stuff, get a flyer and business card. You might even put a magnet on the back of your card, that way the people will save it and put it on the fridge! |
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Finding new clients
Posted: June 19, 2008, 10:54 AM
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Could you get your local papers to write a feature article about you? Also, you could ask your local shops if they would hang a sample of one of your quilts in their shop with a card on it about your quilting service. Another thought is to see if any of the local quilt groups would like you to come and do a talk on, for example, how you got started, how you choose a suitable pattenr, etc. It's all about just getting your name out there. Good luck Sue in the UK |
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Finding new clients
Posted: June 21, 2008, 7:39 AM
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| Join you local quilt guild, take some of your quilts for show n tell. We have men in our guild and even tho they are few we welcome them. |
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