#gnccf

[lutin-de-foret]

Petit esprit de la forêt 🌳. Il sera bientôt disponible sur notre site. Il adore se promener dans la forêt pour observer les nouvelles plantes 🌱. Quel nom on pourra le donner? Little spirit of the forest. It will soon be available on our site. He loves to walk in the forest to observe the new plants 🌱. What name can we give it? #gncfonline #gnccf #craftsayssomething #fantasticcreature #cute #stuffies #textil #lutindeforet #ecofriendlytoy #forestcreatures https://www.instagram.com/p/CQwTSCvn1UL/?utm_medium=tumblr

[beajarenojewellery-blog]

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Just a few of our rings..... check these and more at our online shop www.beajarenojewellery.com. Enjoy! Grateful for you @great_northern_events #beajareno #beajarenojewellery #beajarenojewelleryonlineshop #gnccfonline #gnccf 💕. . . . . #rings #goldvermeil #gold #goldsmith #silversmith #jeweller #jewellery #comtemporaryjewellery #indiansummercollection #plethoracollection #digitalcraftfestival #contemporarycrafts #crafts #design #madelondon #london #craftssayssomething (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDLgGjjBJad/?igshid=885owiy772z5

[arratextiles]

Bringing all the shades of blue down to Manchester next week! . . . #makersgonnamake #simplethings #weaversofinstagram #weaving #handmade #choosewool #gnccf #manchester #madeinscotland #interiors #contemporarycraft #zerowaste #arratextiles (at Campfield Market Hall)

[victoriajarman]

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair 2020

Discounts and free earrings from Victoria Jarman Jewellery as part of GNCCF Online 2020!

I’m delighted to be taking part in the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair 2020! I loved exhibiting at GNCCF in Sheffield last year, it was such a brilliant event. This year will be a little different as the Fair will be an online, meaning you can shop from the comfort of your own sofa in your PJ’s with a glass of something nice! Of course, it’s not quite the same as going to an event, talking…

[tsceramicdesigns]

Been looking forward to seeing this. Many thanks to Patricia at @thedesigntrust #dreamplando #forwardplanning #bringon2018 #thebigpicture #Ceramics #AppliedArts #Handmade #ModernCeramics #HandmadeinWales #EmergingArtist #EmergingPotter #WelshCeramics #ContemporaryCeramics #ContemporaryInteriors #RethinkCeramics #Craftsayssomething #GNCCF

[zoelloyd]

Stop watching telly and get down the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair today and tomorrow #gnccf #ceramics #illustration #cats #plates (at Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair)

[tobysturrockmcmooreard504]

Marketing and Social Media

Marketing is the way that you get an audience that will buy your work, attend your exhibitions and request commissions. 

Finding a Market

People interested in the messages that you are communicating. This can be an emotional response to your work as well as several other possibilities such as:

Educational, used for their own studies and serves as inspiration 

Connection to creativity, people that lack that creative spark and enjoy having a link to something creative

Fashionable, your work may be in fashion and so people may be drawn to it

Social

Potential Customers

Private clients, galleries, shops, educational projects, funding bodies, sponsors, corporate clients, exhibition visitors.

Knowledge about your customer and their viewing/buying/commissioning habits will affect the promotional activity you use to reach them, eg private views, website, postcards, printed material, advertising, space at market-led shows (New Designers, GNCCF, London Illustration Fair, Photo London, Comic Con’s etc), direct mail, telephone and email contact.Your marketing activity – its language, needs to be and to be directly targeted at your customers.

Marketing Tools

Business cards

Letter headed paper

Leaflets

Press coverage

Mailing lists

Post cards

Websites/blogs/SNS

Photographs

Reputation

Customer Loyalty

Networking

Online Presence

Having a good online presence and selling online are crucial if you want to get more overall sales.It is expected that any serious professional will have an up-to-date and professional looking website.Collectors, commissioners, retailers and journalists all expect you to have a website.

Creating your own Website and Selling Online

It has become a lot easier and cheaper to create your own website due to the introduction of e-commerce software, often created specifically for creative products such as :Supadupa, Big Cartel, Shopify, Squarespace, Storenevy and WP Shop plugins/

Online portfolio sites are especially useful eg AXIS, ArtsThread, Behance.

Online membership sites can be particularly useful as these are places where your audience might be looking to buy or commission work egCrafts Council Makers Directory, Design Nation, Select a Maker, Designers Makers, Design Gap, Saatchi online, etc.

Online market places where you are charged for your own online shop e.g. Etsy, Folksy, Creative Market, Graphic River, Spoonflower, RedBubble, etcCurated online shop (and PR tools):madebyhandonline, DegreeArt, Patternbank, Art Web, This is a Limited Edition, INPRNT.

Online shops, Beware of fees – particularly hidden onesRead the small printCan you sell though other sites or are you ‘locked in’?

Social Networking

Social media helps you make connections and stay up-to-date with your craft.

It helps you get a job

Blog, and focus on other platform and get good at it

Think about how you present yourself on the internet

Keep personal social media accounts private!

Consider different platforms and discover what one does better than the other

Don’t just broadcast, converse with your audience, but keep it clean!

Domain name asap, get a .com or .co.uk

www.yourname.com

www.firstnameandsurname.com

www.wholenameanddescription.com (artist/illustrator)

Design website, think about function, make it easy to navigate. Does it work on mobile? Don’t use flash! Consider apple products, lots of people own them. Page Speed tools - use them! 

[jewellerycompare]

GNCCF moves online

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[hazeljenkins72]

Win a weekend in Manchester with craft fair tickets, delicious dining and unique hand-crafted work

Five lucky runners up will each receive a pair of tickets to the GNCCF

from All articles http://www.cheshirelife.co.uk/manchester-gnccf-competition-1-5714989

[beajarenojewellery-blog]

We are back at the studios!!! Thank you to Anne-Marie and Angela for a fantastic fair! 💕 so grateful to be part of the Great Contemporary Craft Fair Sheffield. Fantastic makers with beautiful work and great vibes 😍 @great_northern_events . . . . . #beajareno #beajarenojewellery #beajarenojewelleryshow #back #london #studiotime #studiojewellery #jewellery #contemporaryjewellery #grateful #gnccf #sheffieldtolondon #sheffield #crafts #craftfair #fair #design #craftsayssomething #craftstalent #talentedmakers #makers #craftsmanshipmatters #love (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0A5bQjAnoX/?igshid=1bwlcs66cdq4s

[victoriajarman]

The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair Online Christmas Fair

The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair Online Christmas Fair

The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair Online Christmas Event 21-22 November 2020 I’m over the moon to be taking part in the GNCCF again – this weekend! Tomorrow in fact! Scroll through the makers on the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair website, find something you love for the people you love this Christmas. Not only will you be buying work of an exceptional standard, but you will also be…

[beajarenojewellery-blog]

We are loving the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair!! Open today 10am till 5pm at the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield 💕 @great_northern_events . . . . . #beajareno #beajarenojewellery #beajarenojewelleryshow #gnccf #sheffield #crafts #craftsayssomething #jewellery #contemporaryjewellery #design #handcrafted #quality #textiles #furniture #ceramics #leather #love #lovehandmade #stylemepretty (at Sheffield) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz2I1W8A3zT/?igshid=qvc0lv58d9vd