On Tuesday, I facilitated a workshop re. promoting an artisan business (on zero budget!) to four friends at the wonderful Amanda Byrne?s house just outside Gorey. Amanda (a milliner and feltmaker) and I became friends initially through facebook and met when she was one of the participants at Dawn?s first ?fantastic felt hat? workshop in April. Since then we have been in regular contact online as Amanda builds up her business Highbury Designs, we had a session earlier in the year discussing ideas for Amanda to promote her hats and felted accessories and I?m glad to say that the business is really expanding and Amanda?s customer base is building rapidly!
A selection of Amanda Byrne?s beautiful hats and felt accessories
There are all sorts of free and inexpensive ways to get your product in front of consumers, blogging, signature files, internet forums,? business cards and social media sites like facebook and Pinterest to name but a few. It?s really important too for people to realise that buying local and buying handmade really DOES make a difference to the maker, please consider this the next time you are looking for a present or gift voucher, you are really helping to keep an artist maker in business. The four friends who participated in the workshop on Tuesday are all experienced visual artists and craftspeople with interesting and beautiful work to share, making the work is the easy part but as we all know it?s vital to then let as many people as possible know what we are doing!!! Check out their new facebook pages and if you like what you see please hit their like buttons and share. In no particular order (the order everyone sat around the table in fact) I give you?Sharon, Julie, Paula and Naoimh.
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