Having abandoned the ‘cash for art’ comformity in my business plan I am attempting a completely different approach to ‘marketing’ and raising profile. Instead of the old methods I using a modified ‘Freecycle’* system. Instead of simply ‘giving away’ my cartoons I am going to invite ‘barter’ and see what I get in exchange:-)
I will start this modified version of ‘freecycling’ at the private view when I will hand out post its to audience and invite ‘barter bids’ to be made for a cartoon. Best one wins.
After show I will put individual items up for ‘freecycling’ and see what offered in return.
Note: Already had response from a Coffee Company in States 🙂 See comment below
In 2006 I did a t-shirt for a beer here in Nottingham and appeared on John Holmes radio show
see full story at BBC WEBSITE… I got a t-shirt but no beer ..by the time I visited their stand they’d sold out 🙁
* Freecycle is a system whereby people simply offer goods for free but do not receive any exchange directly