Art Gallery Marketing Strategies
The right art gallery marketing plan is critical for finding new art collectors and maximizing sales opportunities. It can be challenging to keep track of the rapid changes in marketing techniques and how they affect your gallery business. Here, you will find information about marketing strategies tailored for running an art gallery business. Topics include email marketing, SEO, digital marketing, gallery event marketing, and more. Need personalized help?
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Engaging Art Buyers with Experiential Marketing
In this article, we explore how art galleries can leverage experiential marketing and digital innovation to engage buyers and increase sales. We discuss the “phygital” approach, which combines immersive experiences with digital technology, such as virtual exhibitions and augmented reality, to captivate a global audience.
Learn the importance of “storyliving” in providing a more experiential approach to your gallery’s marketing to help strengthen your program’s relevance and success in the evolving art market.
LinkedIn Strategies for Art Galleries to Attract Collectors
Art galleries are always looking to for new strategies to attract collectors and showcase their artists. LinkedIn is a compelling social platform for getting your gallery’s name out there, meeting buyers and collaborators, and conducting competitive research. In this article, we’ll explore how art galleries can use LinkedIn to spotlight their artists and attract new […]
How to Create an Integrated Online-Offline Experience for Art Buyers
COVID-19’s unprecedented impact on how you do business has further highlighted what was already an underlying problem with today’s typical art gallery business model. Art galleries need to strategically develop their online sales strategies to integrate with the face-to-face experience art collectors would have in the brick and mortar gallery.
Building Meaningful Connections: Tips to Increase Engagement with Your Gallery
Engaging with your gallery goes well beyond mere interaction; it is about creating a meaningful dialogue that allows you to truly understand the needs and aspirations of your clients.
Here let’s explore ideas for actions your art gallery business could take right now to encourage engagement and begin to create a journey for your collectors and prospects.
SEO Fundamentals for Art Galleries: Drive Traffic and Sales
By focusing on SEO, your gallery can attract more art lovers to your site. Increased website traffic can increase sales, especially if you establish a straightforward buyer’s journey.
Let’s talk about the SEO fundamentals that art galleries should know and what Google, Bing, and other engines look for to determine your gallery’s rank.
Enhancing the Art Buying Experience: Gallery Communication Skills
The art gallery market is evolving quickly, and success depends on continuous skill improvement and staff training. Emphasizing writing quality, tailored user experiences, innovative content marketing, and powerful communication will establish your gallery as a top contender in your market and beyond.
This article outlines essential marketing skills for galleries to boost business growth and employee retention.
Reinventing Your Gallery Business: Lessons from the Past, Technologies of the Future
Let’s look at a few things you could be doing as you embrace the lessons of the past, along with new technology to reinvent your art galley’s sales force, how you create value for art buyers, and structure your marketing strategy.
Reaching Gen X Art Collectors: Leveraging the Personal Touch of Direct Mail
Marketing through the mail may capture attention. Direct mail is still very relevant in the marketing mix for your art gallery business and it may be worth resuscitating as part of your marketing plan.
Learn how this marketing masterpiece might help your gallery find more collectors for your artists.
Generosity as a Brand Strategy: Standing Out in the Art Gallery Industry
Today’s art collectors will be more likely to support the gallery and your artists if you are actively generous. It just feels good. Learn how to apply generosity to your art gallery’s brand strategy and connect it to your business values. The results increase awareness of your gallery and help motivate sales.
Synchronizing Branding and Marketing: Strategies for Art Galleries
Knowing the difference between branding and marketing can significantly impact your art gallery’s success. Sometimes, an art gallery’s brand can become lost in marketing efforts and not be as effective as you need it to be.
In this article, let’s define the difference between marketing and branding and look at how your gallery can ensure each is incorporated into your growth strategy.
Checklist: Presenting your Gallery Artist Roster Online Best for Buying Decisions
This checklist provides simple ways to increase the value of your gallery’s artist roster, portfolio, and biography pages for potential collectors who are browsing your website.
While there are gallery-specific software programs available that can help you meet many of these requirements, there are crucial elements that you need to personally ensure are present on your website.
How Art Galleries can Leverage Digital PR Strategies
In this article, let’s explore digital PR and how your art gallery can leverage strategies to create a buzz around your artists and events. Digital PR has redefined how art galleries can create awareness about their artists and exhibitions. By incorporating these strategies, you can expand your reach, attract a global audience, and foster deeper engagement with qualified buyers.
The Mindset of Gen X Art Collectors and How to Attract Them
Does your gallery to speak to what’s important to a Gen X mindset. Let’s examine Generation X art collectors and learn if your art gallery business should make marketing adjustments to attract and do business them.
Surviving the Storm: A Guide to Running an Art Gallery in a Recession
In this article, let’s discuss creating a gallery marketing action plan to mitigate economic challenges. Whether it’s a recession triggered by a financial market crash, war, a global pandemic, or the forces of nature, having a plan is crucial. This plan should be implemented swiftly and encompass proactive adjustments to your business model, enhancing your resilience in times of crisis.
In this article learn how to create a gallery marketing action plan so you can attenuate the potential financial consequences of a recession.
The Role of Website Audits in Growing Your Art Gallery’s Online Presence
An effective website can be a great asset to your gallery business. It is the “go to” place for prospective buyers and journalists. It is a good idea to do regular audits to make sure the site is functioning to its maximum potential.
Here you will learn about easy things you can do to make your art gallery’s website an art buyer magnet.
Boosting Newsletter Open Rates: Strategies and Best Practices for Art Galleries
Let’s delve into the strategies and best practices that will captivate your subscribers and drive engagement. Learn how to optimize your email content, timing, and design, and unlock the power of data-driven decision-making to Fuel your email marketing success.
Unknown to Unforgettable: Harnessing the Artist’s Personal Brand
Here we will explore the importance of artist personal brands and how they can help put your gallery in the spotlight while also pushing their career forward. Personal brands are important because they enable a deeper connection with prospective art collectors and encourage them to engage, follow and share an artist’s accomplishments with others.
Modern Public Relations Strategies for Art Galleries
In today’s rapidly changing landscape of society, business operations, and communication technology, it is essential to adapt your approach to public relations accordingly.
This article explores how art galleries can harness the power of press releases and digital PR strategies to enhance visibility, engage art collectors, and cultivate a strong gallery brand in the competitive art world.
From Words to Sales: Crafting a Compelling Exhibition Story to Connect with Art Buyers
Art dealers are uniquely positioned to tell amazing stories because their artists are already enlightening the world with the visual stories they tell through their work.
Telling a good story is an opportunity for your gallery to think outside the box, present art in new way, and share your passion.
Workbook: Content Marketing Annual Planner
Your art gallery content marketing is essential for increasing awareness about your artists. I put this planner together as a simple tool to help you plan your marketing messages and content month-by-month each year.
The planner is a fillable PDF, so you can print it to handwrite your content plan or type directly into the document.
From Subscribers to Collectors: Building Relationships from Email Addresses
It’s all about relationships in the gallery business. Learn how can you build a better relationship by implementing an email nurture sequence for your art gallery’s mailing list subscribers.
Let me show you why it is important and how to do it.
Crafting a Compelling Value Proposition for Art Collectors: A Roadmap to Distinction
Your art gallery’s value proposition is the foundation for the sales, marketing, and client experience you deliver. So, as the art world evolves, take a step back and reimagine your value proposition
Learn how to craft your gallery’s value proposition and how to put it to work to attract new buyers for your artists.
Optimize your Art Gallery’s Instagram Marketing
Your art gallery’s Instagram profile is like a visual sales tool. Learn how to strengthen your art gallery’s Instagram marketing capabilities from defining your strategy, optimizing your profile and growing a following.
How to Optimize your Art Gallery’s SEO with Google Business Profile
Your art gallery’s Google Business Profile plays a big part in your SEO strategy, especially if you are an online-only art gallery. In this article, I will tell you what you need to know to optimize your profile and increase gallery foot traffic and website visitors.
How to Create an Art Gallery Marketing Plan
Creating and implementing an art gallery marketing plan is critical to the growth of your gallery business and the success of your artists. Here let’s look at how to get organized to create your gallery marketing plan and what you should include to make it a valuable tool throughout the coming year.
Investing Wisely: How to Allocate Your Art Gallery’s Marketing Budget
You know marketing is an investment in your art gallery’s future. How much should your gallery be spending on marketing, and how do you decide where the budget should be spent? That’s is what we are going to look at in this article.
How to Create an Art Buyer’s Journey to Increase Sales and Loyalty
Collectors have more choices than ever for how and where they acquire art. Often their decisions are driven by the buying experience they prefer.
Your art gallery’s client buying experience and the sales journey you provide are closely linked.
This article discusses how to create both to increase sales and loyalty.
Five Priorities for Marketing a New Art Gallery
I want to share the five marketing initiatives I recommend you prioritize in this article. Some even before you open. You will have many moving parts to coordinate as you build your artist roster, try to find a location, develop your gallery program and potentially hire staff.
Focusing on these marketing priorities as a new gallery business will set a solid foundation to build upon as your scale and grow in the future.
Building Your Art Gallery’s Digital Marketing Foundation
This guide is for those marketing an art gallery and a roster of artists. It focuses on the five most impactful elements of digital marketing for an art gallery business to attract art buyers with strong marketing messaging and generate more gallery sales.
Storyboard Template and Checklist: Video Planning Guide for Art Galleries
This tool to help you get an idea of how the finished product will look before you invest time and money into it. Use the storyboard to help outline the goals of your gallery’s video marketing, and the key messages you want to communicate to viewers. Also included is a checklist for both pre and post-production of your videos
How to Craft Stories to Attract New Art Buyers
Stories are essential sales and marketing tools your art gallery can use to attract new art buyers. Learn tips for crafting an art gallery story for artists, exhibitions and brand.
Telling a good story is an opportunity for a fine-art gallery to think outside the box, generate real excitement, share your passion and stand out from competition.
Creating an Art Gallery Video Marketing Strategy
Videos are changing the marketing landscape in a big way. This article will provide you with information to fuel your art gallery’s video marketing strategy, SEO and pre and post-production process.
Run this Email Campaign to Find New Gallery Art Buyers
It’s a constant challenge finding new collectors for your gallery’s artists. Look to your existing mailing list to rekindle interest in collecting pieces from your gallery.
In this article, we will explore some email marketing ideas appropriate for an art gallery to try in a re-engagement strategy.
The Content Calendar and your Art Gallery’s Marketing Plan
One of the essential elements of an art gallery marketing plan is the content calendar. Here let’s talk about why it is so vital and how to create a content marketing calendar for your art gallery.
Perfecting your Art Gallery’s Email Marketing Strategy
Email marketing is a great way for art galleries to attract new customers and keep them coming back. To make sure your emails are effective, there are five important things to focus on: clean design with minimal text, personalization through segmentation, email automation, content and writing style, and calls to action.
Learn how to use these things to make your newsletters more impactful.
Clear, Informative, and Entertaining: Key Elements of Art Gallery Digital Marketing
Here we will look at some of the more impactful elements in digital marketing today and what your gallery might consider prioritizing in your marketing efforts.
We will discuss influencer marketing, content curation, social media, and website user experiences so you can create a powerful strategy to accomplish your gallery’s marketing goals.
How to Design an Art Gallery Referral Program
In this article, let’s look at ways you might create a systemized approach to increase referrals to your gallery. Gallery referrals are so valuable. A single one could be worth more than all your other marketing efforts combined.
Solving Common Problems with Your Art Gallery Newsletter
Art gallery email newsletters have been an important part of the marketing mix for a long time now. However, so many are sent to prospects that are not as effective as they could be to produce real results.
Here we will explore some of the three most common problems with gallery email newsletters and how to fix them.
Building Connections: Upgrading Your Art Gallery’s Online Capabilities
This article explores areas to prioritize art gallery online sales and marketing strategies for your gallery business throughout the year.
Art Gallery Marketing Checklist for the Holidays
This checklist will help keep you focused and perhaps inspire you to try new things.
QR Codes: Back in Art Gallery Digital Marketing
QR codes are an art gallery marketing tool that should be in your toolkit. They can help create engagement by integrating the online/offline experience your clients and prospects have with your gallery. Learn how to use them to attract new art buyers.
Find New Art Collectors for your Gallery’s Artists with an Active Blog
A blog is an economical marketing tool for finding new art buyers.
Here let’s talk about how blogging is important for your gallery to generate new sales leads for your artist’s work and why having an active blog should be in your art gallery marketing mix.
Digital Marketing and Sales Trends that Matter to an Art Gallery Business
Here we will look at a few sales and marketing trends that an art gallery business should consider during business planning. Here we examine the top trends for digital marketing, social media and sales that your gallery business should know about to attract collectors and suggest ways to incorporate these trends with your gallery efforts.
The Power of Persuasive Writing: Attracting New Art Collectors Online
Persuasive writing on the web is essential to your gallery business. Here we will explore writing techniques to make your gallery website a powerful marketing and sales tool. Compelling and web-friendly copy or text makes a notable difference in persuading someone to contact the gallery, purchase art or attend a show.
How to Market your Gallery Event with Purpose and Value
What is the purpose of going to a gallery event? Are you communicating the purpose in a way that is attendee-oriented? While the subject of an exhibition or the artist’s perspective on the work is an enormous part of most gallery events, marketing messages should not be one-sided.
Here let’s talk about gallery event marketing and look at how focusing on purpose, and attendee value boost attendance and add more meaning to the experience.
Checklist: Art Gallery Website Audit for Optimal SEO
Covered in the checklist are specific actions your art gallery business can take to audit your website to ensure it keeps up with search engine algorithms and helps improve your gallery’s index rankings.
Digital Marketing Trends Your Art Gallery Should Not Ignore
Marketing your art gallery online must attract new art buyers, begin to establish trust and nurture existing client relationships, and of course, lead to sales.
Let’s look at some of the top things that matter most to an art gallery business today for your digital marketing strategy.
A Step by Step Guide: How to Establish Gallery Value in the Minds of Art Collectors
This step-by-step guide to help you evaluate and communicate the value your gallery offers to collectors, artists and the community you serve.
An art gallery’s usage of a value proposition is particularly important and often overlooked or underutilized in today’s digital age.
Checklist and Worksheet: Gallery Email Nurture Sequence
This checklist was designed to help walk you through the steps of creating an email nurture sequence for your art gallery email subscribers. It covers the planning, creating and tracking stages of implementing this marketing strategy.
Common Missed Opportunities of Art Gallery Websites
A gallery website should be given great care and effort because it is often the first place a potential art collector will learn about your gallery and the artists you represent. Here are the top 5 problems I see too often on art gallery websites.
Your Gallery’s Brand Position: Friend or Foe
As a fine-art dealer, consider how your current brand helps your gallery stand out from the competition in the minds of art collectors. Brand positioning, when done well, can be a true friend instead of your business’s greatest foe. Typically, the first things that come to mind about branding are the visual elements, such as the logo, color, and style. But where brand positioning can be most helpful is in the intangible elements, like service, reputation, public perception, and emotion. These are the elements often neglected by art galleries when developing and reinforcing their brand position.
Learn how to evaluate your art gallery’s brand positioning and how to develop it into a distinctive brand allowing your gallery to differentiate itself from competitors.
Gallery Publicity: Big Bang, Small Bucks
The practice of public relations is one of the most misunderstood elements of marketing; yet, it can be one of the most influential to the overall success of your gallery and the artists you represent. Public relations, if executed consistently and strategically, can help an unknown gallery transform into a trusted art resource. Is your fine-art gallery gaining all the benefits it could from public relations?
Marketing Plan and Infrastructure
I can help you evaluate your sales, marketing, and operational strategies and develop a working, realistic plan that enables you to accomplish your business goals. I can also help you stay accountable for achieving your goals. Visit the Advisory Services page to learn more and schedule an exploratory call. Here is what you will receive when we work together to create an art gallery marketing plan for your business.
- Analyze your current marketing assets
- Assess and strengthen your marketing infrastructure
- Provide feedback on how to optimize your current marketing workflow
- Implement a marketing content calendar
- Create a simple, yet comprehensive written marketing plan
- Daily, weekly, monthly marketing processes
- Have a written gallery marketing plan
- Prioritize projects and future investments
- Tools and resources to help Fuel your marketing efforts
- Bi-Weekly Zoom sessions and ongoing support between sessions