Posted in Framing Advice, Marketing on Apr 25th, 2011
A friend of mine suggested I become a friend of Michael Corbin, the Artbook Guy, on facebook. I did and he asked me if he could do an interview about framing. He does many interviews with artists and said fine art framing mystified him. I said I would do my best to try to explain our business. We [...]
Posted in Artist Resources, Marketing on Oct 30th, 2010
After reading a post from the MNArtists.org, on Facebook, I bought a $300.00 share in the Community Support Arts program. Our family had purchased shares in Red Cardinal Farm’s CSA programs in the early 1990’s. I still have fond memories of picking up our box of food. We never ate better than [...]
Posted in Marketing on Oct 17th, 2010
I am about to finish a social media class. In addition to our facebook page, we have just added a twitter account – metroframes. We will be starting a youtube channel with videos on how to do framing with an emphasis on archival products and techniques. Our goal is to start a dialogue with our [...]
Posted in Artist Resources, Marketing on Oct 1st, 2010
We have many customers who sell their work at art fairs. If you aren’t aware there is an excellent online source to make navigating the art fair scene easier and much more profitable for the artists. The site is artfairinsiders.com. The site is extensive and covers virtually any area of interest that an artist who is [...]
Posted in Artist Resources, Marketing on Sep 26th, 2010
We are always interested in how our customers can market their work successfully. I just received Paul Klein’s ArtLetter and want to share it with you. He is about to launch Klein Artist Works. The following is an excerpt from the ArtLetter. “It’s time your art takes care of you. This program identifies the obstacles [...]
Posted in Artist Resources, Featured Artists, Marketing on Aug 19th, 2010
I recently discovered that Carol Marine had a link to our site. I visited her site and was very impressed with her work. Being appreciative, I called to thank her. She is a great example of how an artist is making a good living doing what she loves to do. She has [...]
Posted in Marketing on Jul 28th, 2010
We now have a Metropolitan Facebook page. We will be sharing information about new products, framing conservation tips, customer exhibitions, etc. We have just added an album on the page for our customer’s exhibition information in July and August. We will also be adding a featured customer profile to the page. And because our customers [...]
