marketing custom made furniture

[Gravydoo II]

So yeah I made a matching table, coffee table, and end table set from the same rose wood slab. Anyways, how the fuck am I gonna sell this shit? I need ideas. Etsy is bleh. Any ideas?

[starkind]

make an ebay or amazon account

gg

[starkind]

or do a road side stand in a shady part of town were there's very little police precsence

[duckinduck]

Or else you can use social networks. When we launched the site, we didn't have any visitors and we found the first customers through Instagram. I posted in my stories that I sell a recliner (like this one (https://www.reclinerland.com/best-massage-chair-for-tall-person/#product5), I don't remember, it was a couple of years ago).
And the first client came through my friends, then we created a separate account, and then upgraded the site.

You can also try to send a message to all your friends that you are selling this table.

Or even print paper announcement and stick them on lampposts in your city :D

[nostalgiaquest]

post a picture of them!

[FatherSioux]

Humble brag

[Gravydoo II]

I got ahold of a marketing/advertising professional. Shes teaching me. Thanks for everyones help though. I got a laundry list of shit to do now to make this all legit and function.

Seriously, made a few signs, considered hammering them into the ground at busy intersections. First thing she asked me was "did you make any signs? people love signs. the more home made the better" and went onto explain some psychology shit about how people buy things. Was really something.

Thanks for everyone's input.
Stay jelly Sioux. Go buy a fucking saw and stop being a bitch.

[HalflingSpergand]

Post pics of the furniture you made you fuckin fat loser

[Gravydoo II]

So you can reverse google search it, find my insta/advertising, my name, and stalk me?

Why would I post something like that?? You guys are nothing but dick heads then you want me to show you something beautiful i spent a long time making?? If you want to shit on me, do it. You aint gonna shit on my business though. Some of you seem the type to make fake accounts and post fake complaints about my products or business practices.

[Shourty]

So you can reverse google search it, find my insta/advertising, my name, and stalk me?

Why would I post something like that?? You guys are nothing but dick heads then you want me to show you something beautiful i spent a long time making?? If you want to shit on me, do it. You aint gonna shit on my business though. Some of you seem the type to make fake accounts and post fake complaints about my products or business practices.

Yeah. That sounds like what would happen. Not a troll, I'm serious.

[Tunabros]

lets see some pictures OP

[hobart]

There has to be a consignment type place near you that sells similar or style-compatible stuff.

[Gravydoo II]

There has to be a consignment type place near you that sells similar or style-compatible stuff.

Good idea.

[imperiouskitten]

I think Facebook & Craigslist are the classics. Insert some kind of a cue that indicates you are female, ull get interested buyers. Then just pretend ur the boyfriend when they showup.

[Gravydoo II]

^^^ I was thinking of this. ^^^

Need to find some conventionally attractive women to pretend shes cutting shit. throw some saw dust at her during the pics. Boom, female wood worker. Double entendre.

[Toxigen]

Are you just looking to sell the set and be done or is this going to be a start of a business (or money-making hobby)?

edit: missed the marketing / sales coach bit

I'm sure she has said this already...but create a website. Or, at the very least, social media accounts for your business name. Take lots and lots of pictures during the fabrication process. Post the best ones as your pieces go from raw material to finished. Get your friends to follow / like / subscribe or whatever. The important thing is posting often to get your name popping up on people's feeds. Exposure should yield more interested buyers.

Wish you well! Taking a hobby and turning it into a profitable business is the most rewarding way to make mo' monies. A friend of mine turned an old VW bus over a few years ago for fun and now he has his own marine upholstery business and no longer slaves on salary.

Everything he does gets posted. por ejemplo:

https://i.imgur.com/0Ilxkq4.jpg

[Gravydoo II]

Man I want to quit work and make shit 4Lyfe. My girls uncle does it. He sells tables for 30k, 50k, shit like that. Ive sold a few but god damn, NOTHING close to that. I may have broken even with my last job, which wasnt even a sale, just refinishing a counter top. Like, the tools are paid for!

Ive been trying to take pics of my work in the process but I always forget. I need to rework my shop to make that more of a thing. I put a bigass dock light in my shed on this articulating arm, was thinking of attaching a camera to that and just film the whole thing, chop that up.

Thanks for the input. The social media thing, I need to be more active. I have ads up and stuff on apps like offerup, etc. Its just to me though, like my name. I got an insta so thats a start. People actually looked at it, I dont even know how it works I only post shit and look at the hearts in the top right like "woo more hearts". lol

Ive been kinda lazy on the social media front. I need to just make a FB totally separate from my personal FB. Then it might be more interesting and like, ill have a drive to build it. Good idea. Then an email for that fb, etc. Then registering the business. "Big hairy balls plopped menacingly on the table" or "washington redskins" i was thinking for the name. (it has a name, im jk.)

[Gravydoo II]

OMG she just said to me "That new saw looks like the trap from those movies, saw."

My neighbors now know what my guffaws sound like.