Comments for Magic Woodworks http://www.magicwoodworks.com A resource for artists to learn and share creative marketing tecniques and anecdotes. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:21:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Bottle stoppers and a Video! by Steve http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/12/bottle-stoppers-and-a-video/#comment-346 Steve Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:53:36 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=388#comment-346 Great video! Where do you get your supplies? Do you have a favorite wood to turn? I would love to hear from you. Thanks Great video! Where do you get your supplies? Do you have a favorite wood to turn? I would love to hear from you. Thanks

]]> Comment on Win the Bowl! by Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/12/win-the-bowl/#comment-345 Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:14:18 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=423#comment-345 I'm in! I'm in! Came here from Kevin Kelley's "1000 True Fans" comment. My experience with contests and giveaways: these take work too. There seems to be a lower threshold under which people will NOT take action. For example, I've had trouble giving away money. $7.13 is not enough money to inspire someone to fill out a contact form and press "Submit." Crazy! But it's true. $15 isn't for a gift certificate. I did give one away, but I think the person that won it... won it by accident (being the 1000th comment on my blog). Subscribed. (And Merry Christmas!) I’m in! I’m in!

Came here from Kevin Kelley’s “1000 True Fans” comment.

My experience with contests and giveaways: these take work too.

There seems to be a lower threshold under which people will NOT take action. For example, I’ve had trouble giving away money. $7.13 is not enough money to inspire someone to fill out a contact form and press “Submit.” Crazy! But it’s true. $15 isn’t for a gift certificate. I did give one away, but I think the person that won it… won it by accident (being the 1000th comment on my blog).

Subscribed.

(And Merry Christmas!)

]]> Comment on Photo Documentary of “7 Rings Bowl” by Works in progress – artists & social media http://www.magicwoodworks.com/photo-documentary-of-7-rings-bowl/#comment-344 Works in progress – artists & social media Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:03:44 +0000 http://magicwoodworks.com/blog/?page_id=24#comment-344 [...] Keith Burtis agrees. He has a section of his Magic Woodturning site called Photo Documentary. [...] [...] Keith Burtis agrees. He has a section of his Magic Woodturning site called Photo Documentary. [...]

]]> Comment on Nostepinnes - Live Woodturning at 12:30 EST by Scientific Ink » My very own Nostepinde! (gratitude #51) - not particularly objective musings on odds and ends - Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/11/nostepinnes-live-woodturning-at-1230-est/#comment-342 Scientific Ink » My very own Nostepinde! (gratitude #51) - not particularly objective musings on odds and ends - Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:14:48 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=342#comment-342 [...] Magic Woodworks made them. He was willing to try, and he turned the one in the bottom photo for me. Keith broadcast the woodturning live, and I was able to watch him make it. [...] [...] Magic Woodworks made them. He was willing to try, and he turned the one in the bottom photo for me. Keith broadcast the woodturning live, and I was able to watch him make it. [...]

]]> Comment on Win the Bowl! by Keith Burtis http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/12/win-the-bowl/#comment-340 Keith Burtis Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:24:28 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=423#comment-340 The hing is this. The contacts are made. I am opened up to 200 people I would not otherwise know, and I think it's important to be open minded. We talked about seeing if this project "worked".... I know it will. More people will be aware of my work because of it and on top of that I know that I will gain contacts. I always do! The reason i always do is because i engage with my community. Keith So far it's been a huge success. The hing is this. The contacts are made. I am opened up to 200 people I would not otherwise know, and I think it’s important to be open minded. We talked about seeing if this project “worked”…. I know it will. More people will be aware of my work because of it and on top of that I know that I will gain contacts. I always do! The reason i always do is because i engage with my community.

Keith

So far it’s been a huge success.

]]> Comment on Win the Bowl! by Jennah http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/12/win-the-bowl/#comment-339 Jennah Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:12:05 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=423#comment-339 Sean Cier. oops! Sean Cier. oops!

]]> Comment on Win the Bowl! by Jennah http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/12/win-the-bowl/#comment-338 Jennah Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:11:32 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=423#comment-338 Yes Sean Crier, but if you do reach 1 in 50 people with a free tshirt, that's a few people you wouldn't have reached otherwise! Sometimes it's the best way to get attention - you know everyone won't stick, but the ones that do will remember you fondly. People love free stuff! It must be a fact of nature. Yes Sean Crier, but if you do reach 1 in 50 people with a free tshirt, that’s a few people you wouldn’t have reached otherwise! Sometimes it’s the best way to get attention - you know everyone won’t stick, but the ones that do will remember you fondly.

People love free stuff! It must be a fact of nature.

]]> Comment on Win the Bowl! by CreativeGoddess http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/12/win-the-bowl/#comment-337 CreativeGoddess Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:06:07 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=423#comment-337 Sheesh! Some people are just way to intense... I was thinking of doing the same thing, Keith, but didn't want to be a copycat. Hmm... Sheesh! Some people are just way to intense…

I was thinking of doing the same thing, Keith, but didn’t want to be a copycat. Hmm…

]]> Comment on Win the Bowl! by Sean Cier http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/12/win-the-bowl/#comment-336 Sean Cier Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:54:23 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=423#comment-336 "can't buy love" was meant mostly as a joke, but it nonetheless always surprises me when people assume that giveaways will lead to meaningful communication. I just spent a week at a conference where we stood in a booth and gave away more T-shirts and pens than I could count, and of the people who stopped by our booth to get a shirt who wouldn't otherwise have listened to us, I'd honestly be surprised if more than one in fifty still remembered our name and what we do. It was effective in that scenario because they payoff was big (find the right person, and you could end up with a business connection worth millions), but it was still soul-sucking. Good communication results in good communication. Sometimes new media work, sometimes they don't -- Twitter has worked surprisingly well thus far (a lot better than I'd've ever guessed), but you're right that there's a bit of a bot problem. Either it'll be fixed or it won't, but I'm not sure that band-aids in the form of Free Stuff will expand your network in a meaningful way, or at least more so than if you spent that time writing more content. But hey, it's your (beautiful) bowl, and like you say, it's an experiment. Experiments are good. “can’t buy love” was meant mostly as a joke, but it nonetheless always surprises me when people assume that giveaways will lead to meaningful communication. I just spent a week at a conference where we stood in a booth and gave away more T-shirts and pens than I could count, and of the people who stopped by our booth to get a shirt who wouldn’t otherwise have listened to us, I’d honestly be surprised if more than one in fifty still remembered our name and what we do. It was effective in that scenario because they payoff was big (find the right person, and you could end up with a business connection worth millions), but it was still soul-sucking.

Good communication results in good communication. Sometimes new media work, sometimes they don’t — Twitter has worked surprisingly well thus far (a lot better than I’d've ever guessed), but you’re right that there’s a bit of a bot problem. Either it’ll be fixed or it won’t, but I’m not sure that band-aids in the form of Free Stuff will expand your network in a meaningful way, or at least more so than if you spent that time writing more content. But hey, it’s your (beautiful) bowl, and like you say, it’s an experiment. Experiments are good.

]]> Comment on Win the Bowl! by Keith Burtis http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/12/win-the-bowl/#comment-335 Keith Burtis Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:17:53 +0000 http://www.magicwoodworks.com/?p=423#comment-335 Honestly, no...I don't. I am talking about being followed by bots. I just don't follow the back. Also, I'm really not interested in buying your love. I'm more doing this as a way to get my work in front of more eyeballs. I guess thats social media, it's an experiment. Maybe this isn' the best way...just giving it a try. Thank you for your comment. Keith Honestly, no…I don’t. I am talking about being followed by bots. I just don’t follow the back. Also, I’m really not interested in buying your love. I’m more doing this as a way to get my work in front of more eyeballs. I guess thats social media, it’s an experiment. Maybe this isn’ the best way…just giving it a try.

Thank you for your comment.
Keith

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