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How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
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 Please can you help me with this research. It’s quick, fascinating and can help you listen to your customers better. follow the linkhttp://bit.ly/jCdL5TContinue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Julia Pitkin May 20, 2011.

 

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Julia Pitkin replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"  Hi Victoria Thanks I agree, I have a rural office at home, its beautiful to be here, however, I need to get out and meet people or I would go mad. Social networking as allowed me to find advice and experts easily online which makes…"
May 20, 2011
Victoria Baker replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"I actually enjoy engaging in all areas of my craft from actual making, to selling and meeting buyers. I think if it wasn't so varied I'd get bored too quickly because I like a challenge. I don't think its good to be in the studio all…"
May 20, 2011
Julia Pitkin commented on Hilary Pullen aka haptree's group Twitter
"Thanks to those makers who have filled out the questionaire 'How effective is your Communication style with potential customers'"
May 19, 2011
Julia Pitkin replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"Thank you for all your responses, I agree it may depend on our mood, the role you are in at the time. It is a board overview of general styles.  Why I did this was because I have found it hard to engage designer- makers in conversation within…"
May 19, 2011
Anna Stassen replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"You're probably right Victoria, I would imagine these are sort of general 'most likely to be' characteristics which don't always fit exactly. I had the same sort of thing with high yellow. "
May 19, 2011
Victoria Baker replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"I thought perhaps my results only reflected part of my personality, I'm not actually a 'tidy' person but I can be quite analytical. I thought perhaps there are more 'grey areas' to what I'm like rather than being high…"
May 19, 2011
Anna Stassen replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"I guess the key thing to remember about all this, no matter what colour you are, is that not everyone communicates in the same way so you may have to take different approaches for different people. I come across this all the time as Editor of UK…"
May 18, 2011
liam carey replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"Hello, how interesting, I come out as high yellow but I am liam's partner, Carol, I look after all the business side of Merlin Glass, which is a different aspect to creativity, and Liam is the artisan, and we both have very different…"
May 18, 2011
Victoria Baker replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"Apparently I'm high green..."
May 18, 2011
Julia Pitkin replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"Thanks Sakur, I hope you found it fascinating. I am a person person anyway, it has helped me understand that sometimes I must speak other people language to be heard. Julia "
May 17, 2011
Anna Stassen replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"I have completed the questionnaire Julia. I am a high yellow lol"
May 13, 2011
Deelights-jewellery replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"I just completed the questionnaire and I'm a high red. I was actually surprised at how accurate it was as it described me to a tea. I'm a jewellery designer/maker and I work on my own also."
May 13, 2011
Julia Pitkin replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"Hello Astrid   Thank you for completing the questionnaire. I am please you found it interesting too. It certainly made me realise why I have difficulty getting my point across with some people these people are often High reds, I am learning how…"
May 9, 2011
Astrid Weigel replied to Julia Pitkin's discussion How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?
"Just completed the questioner. I'm a High Green too and found this interesting and about 80% accurate - some of the questions I found a bit "black or white" so my answer was not a true one. I'm a textile designer/maker working on…"
May 9, 2011
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How effective is your communication style with potential buyers?

 Please can you help me with this research. It’s quick, fascinating and can help you listen to your customers better. follow the linkhttp://bit.ly/jCdL5TSee More
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7 Top Tips for getting your Art and Craft work noticed online.

Artisans in the Hills' top tips on using the internet to promote your art work. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the big buzz word and key to getting your website noticed by Google and other similar companies. Follow the link to read our 7 tips for getting you noticed and hopefully on page one in the search engine results.…

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Most creative business people start out as technicians who strive to maintain a creative well-being but necessity means they also need to learn the art of creating financial wealth. They are Artisans first and business people second and very few have been professionally trained in how to run a business. Erika Price, jewellery maker, commented on the blog that “5% of her time is creativity and 95% marketing” and many crafts people find this daunting. As a result the artisan…

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At 15:38 on February 23, 2011, Bonkers About Buttons said…
hi, Julia - very timely, as I need to have a conversation with you regarding an article in the UKHandmade magazine - fancy a chat? stephanie
At 17:13 on September 21, 2010, Anna Stassen said…
Hi Julia, thanks for the message. Today I have mostly been in a meeting for the Winter issue of UK Handmade Magazine :)

Anna x
At 13:20 on April 2, 2010, Karen Jinks said…
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