Can you give me a creative guerrilla marketing idea for capturing emails as an artist?

One creative approach is using car door magnets with your art and a QR code. For $30-45 you can get a pair of 12x18 magnets that stick to your car doors. As you drive around - especially in heavy traffic - people stuck next to you have nothing to do. Show beautiful artwork, make a provocative statement like ‘Want to look at some art while you’re stuck in traffic? Scan the code.’ The QR code can direct to any of your landing pages. You can even put these magnets on other people’s cars and pay them a small daily fee if they drive around a lot. Another example for those doing pet portraits: place stickers with QR codes on dog poop bag dispensers at every dog park in your area. While this requires some guerrilla placement, it puts your email capture opportunity directly in front of your exact target audience.

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Asked by synthesized from teaching · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2026-05-29