Comments on: Eh... marketing for artists who don't like "marketing"?

Question: Eh... marketing for artists who don't like "marketing"?

zennie — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:31:28 -0800

O wise AskMe, please help us name our art marketing business? A few friends are web-based marketing consultants for indie artists, particularly for musicians, comic book publishers, and visual artists. They provide customized, low-budget, and practical advice on how to do things like sell your art online, target your market, and maintain a fan community. They'd like to take it to the next level and form a company, but they're stuck for a good company name.

They'd like to avoid stiff business terms like "marketing" and "sell," as these words, at least when out front, seem to make many artists hesitate. They're trying to find either a name or a simple slogan that imparts the message "we know what you can easily do to get your art to people who want it." This also needs to (reasonably) work as a web domain.

Bonus points for integrating symbolism that means 'waking' or 'rising,' or similar (e.g. sleeping dragon).

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:42:54 -0800

Pimp My Art LLC

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:44:46 -0800

Sell Out Inc.

Filthy Lucre

By: bruce

bruce — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:45:49 -0800

arketing mart!

By: rhizome

rhizome — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:48:59 -0800

Signed Urinal

By: kdern

kdern — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:50:49 -0800

Up Rising

By: kdern

kdern — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:52:34 -0800

Art Rise

Artscraper

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:53:31 -0800

Sellr
Hagglr
Dickr

By: sanko

sanko — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:00:16 -0800

Frank.

By: kdern

kdern — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:05:22 -0800

Art Show

Opening

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:15:01 -0800

The Sex & Cash Theory

Outside the Lines

The Wild Beasts

No tie

No suit

Art 101

School of Smart Knocks

Midget

Cowboy

Through the looking glass

Spot on

Between Midnight and Day

Gesso

Primping the Canvas

By: quadog

quadog — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:21:57 -0800

No Limits for Artists (NoLiA)

By: zennie

zennie — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:34:37 -0800

The Sex & Cash Theory

Yeah, them's the breaks. (And I love Hugh's stuff.)

By: gauchodaspampas

gauchodaspampas — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:46:24 -0800

Underground Uprising
(Especially if they want to attract far left angry types)

By: rob511

rob511 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:17:33 -0800

I Tell, Yea
Guild deLilly
Goose Lever
The Rose Period
Der Kunsthammer
The Sum Also Rises

By: bru

bru — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:29:33 -0800

buzz arts

By: ScarletPumpernickel

ScarletPumpernickel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:17:03 -0800

MakeYourArtPay.com

ThisIsMyDayJob.com

FeastingArtists.com

By: OrangeDrink

OrangeDrink — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:20:21 -0800

PayOolala
GuerrillArt
TimeIsArt
ArtToLight (or too or 2. whatev Fine Arts Majors can't spell no how)
CleverArt
Art, MBA
MBART (or mmmBart!)
www.seriouslyI'mstarving.com

By: Kensational

Kensational — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:23:36 -0800

Off the Wall

By: box

box — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:10:15 -0800

Artco
New Broom
The Phoenix Project
The Marketing Company That Outsourced Naming Itself

By: zennie

zennie — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:08:02 -0800

Thanks, everyone. This has been a very helpful exercise.

The Marketing Company That Outsourced Naming Itself

I wish. We've been whittling at this for months.