Did we mention, we love to streamline? Time is gold. Streamlining/automating your social media posts means you schedule ALL your weekly posts on Sunday evening to be published automatically at set-times during the week. Cool, no really, it's awesome and will save you tons of time!

Recommended Applications: 

ORGANIZATION: Pocket (free) - As you browse Art Urbane or online and you find products you want to add to your store or content to post on social media, simply save/drop it into Pocket. We recommend downloading the phone application AND the desktop bookmarklet! (5 minutes)

AUTOMATION: HootSuite (free) - Automation is everything! When you are ready to schedule the content that is saved in Pocket, Hootsuite offers the ability to post and schedule posts to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others at the same time for future posts! (Hootsuite is free for three social platforms - we recommend Instagram, Facebook and Twitter or Tumblr. (5 minutes)

Pinterest Automation: Tailwind is a powerful application to automate your postings on Pinterest. You would download this application AND the bookmarklet within Hootsuite's App Directory. Pinterest automation is the only platform that requires you to dig around to find the right application for you to schedule posts. Tailwind is currently $15/month. (Here's a $15.00 discount)

Polish your Social Media Page!

Write a description in your social media page that describes your store's style on your social platforms and use Bitly.co to shorten the URL! 

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2. EMAIL MARKETING IS POWERFUL

Email marketing is the strategy of allowing customers to receive discounts, giveaways and enter contests in exchange for their email address. At larger eCommerce companies, an entire department is devoted to this. We've hacked the system, and made it very simple and straightforward for solo-entrepreneurs.  

How it works:

a. Art Urbane will send you email alerts of discounts, giveaways, contests, etc. to use & share with your social media

b. In your social media posts, you will entice users to to sign up and use your exclusive email code on this page to be entered!

This is an example post: 

We are giving away a 20% discount to use on Art Urbane! To access this discount, you must enter this exclusive code 456. Enter here now before it ends!

c. When someone signs up, a portion of all profits from their purchases is exclusively yours! You are sent their email address to use in your personal marketing, but we also include them in our creative newsletter campaigns!

Sign-up for your exclusive Email Code!

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