Latest Art fair business Podcast Episodes
Protecting Your Event - Q & A for Show Organizers
Art Fair Artists Success Show - September 10, 2020 17:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWith each passing day of the pandemic more attention is paid to avoiding risk in our personal lives and also at the events we plan where you can expect thousands of people in attendance. This session is directed at show directors to help them prepare for their events. Chris Van Leeuwen, Vice Pre...
Protecting Your Business - a Q & A Session
Art Fair Artists Success Show - August 27, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHopefully by this time we have all settled into the Covid-19 lifestyle that has so disrupted our lives and you've adapted to the new normal life of an art who used to participate in art fairs. It may be time to assess the business part of your life as an artist. Do you sell your art online for t...
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"Just $2"? and its aftermath
Art Fair Artists Success Show - August 14, 2020 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsListen as we draw the names for the prizes in the "Just $2" fundraising. In place of our annual Pledge Drive this year we are figuratively "passing the collection plate", asking for support for our art fair websites, ArtFairCalendar.com, ArtFairInsiders.com, ArtShowReviews.com, CallsforArtists....
Pinterest: Can I Use it to Sell Art?
Art Fair Artists Success Show - June 25, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart V: Marketing Art Through Social Media/Pinterest The Pinterest social media platform with over 335 million users could just be the missing piece of your social media marketing plan. Using its tools it will help you can hone your sales strategy to build a following. 28 Pinterest Statistics M...
Instagram: How Can I Use it to Sell Art?
Art Fair Artists Success Show - June 18, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart IV - Marketing Art Through Social Media: Instagram Instagram is a photo and video-sharing networking service owned by Facebook. The app allows users to upload media and the posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. Users browse other users' content by tags and locations,...
Facebook: Can it Help You Sell Your Art?
Art Fair Artists Success Show - June 11, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart III: Using Facebook to Sell Art Facebook is an online social media and social networking service with with more than 2 billion users worldwide. Wow! Bigger than any art fair I've ever attended, but what can it do for you as a business tool? Can you turn all those members into customers. Or,...
Etsy? Is it a Fit for My Art?
Art Fair Artists Success Show - June 04, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart II: Using social Media to Sell Art/Etsy Etsy is an e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items and craft supplies founded in 2005. It is a global online marketplace, where people come together to make, sell, buy, and collect unique items and supports independent creators. Will i...
Can a Website Contribute to Art Sales?
Art Fair Artists Success Show - May 21, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCan a website bring you sales of your fine art or craft? Six artists join in a roundtable talk about their experiences. Their work ranges from small items (hand made soaps and associated products to $5000+ oil paintings.) Your work undoubtedly will fit into this continuum. Some of our guests: Ka...
What is SEO? Everything you ever wanted to know
Art Fair Artists Success Show - May 14, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart IV of a series -- building that website and making it work for you. Scott Fox, a financial and self-help author, specializing in entrepreneurship and startup company advice joins us to answer questions about SEO (search engine optimization) and why it makes a difference to you and your webs...
Website Building #2 - Review your site with an expert
Art Fair Artists Success Show - April 30, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsA solidly functional website can change your life. It is the art fair that never closes. It can reconnect you with a former collector of your work and expose it to a worldwide audience. It opens the door very wide to new opportunities and has the potential to change your life. Did you hire a des...
Website Building 101 - Let's Do This
Art Fair Artists Success Show - April 23, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart 1 of 2 episodes: Time is up. Get online or get out. We find ourselves comfortable right where we are. We’d rather suffer a little less than try new things. This happened to me today (4/21/20): there is an artist's work that I've always loved and decided to go shopping today to check it o...
Artists Apply for Unemployment Insurance - How I did It
Art Fair Artists Success Show - April 17, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart 3: Let's apply for unemployment. A panel of artists share their experiences on the application process. The CARES Act expands states’ ability to provide unemployment insurance for workers impacted by the pandemic, including workers who are not ordinarily eligible for unemployment benefits...
Part 2: Let's Do This! Apply for the PPP
Art Fair Artists Success Show - April 16, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLet's do this together - apply for the PPP The CARES Act offers several programs to help small business people. The Payroll Protection Program (PPP) Loans are intended for small businesses to use to maintain payroll and cover other business expenses during the COVID crisis. All or part of the lo...
Let's Apply for the Disaster Loan Grant from the SBA
Art Fair Artists Success Show - April 10, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAre you eligible for disaster loan asssitance? Probably? Maybe? Together we'll find out. Host Connie Mettler from Art Fair Calendar/Art Fair Insiders and "volunteers from the audience" (Art Fair Insiders Admin, Meg Mettler, and artist Stephanie Wheat of Rebellion Bags in Chicago) log into the Sma...
How Artists Can Apply for Economic Relief
Art Fair Artists Success Show - April 06, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsArtFest Fort Myers under Executive Director Sharon McAllister's leadership, has initiated a plan to act as a clearinghouse to help artists interpret and access the financial services established under the new CARES Act. The law is meant to address the economic fallout of the 2020 coronavirus pand...
In it for the Long Run - True Stories from Hippie
Art Fair Artists Success Show - March 30, 2020 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOf course it isn't a job, nor a vocation, its in your bones and defines who you are. Luckily we live in a country where there is room to change and the legal means of doing so. Start out as an engineer, a pot dealer, a social worker, a biologist and one day you're standing in a tent in a park in ...
Show Organizers & Coronavirus - What Do You Do?
Art Fair Artists Success Show - March 23, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHow are you feeling? I am totally enervated and concerned about the future of art festivals, not only in the short term but in the long run. I'm hearing from artists and reading comments on ArtFairInsiders.com about "what next?" and I have to take some action. This exhaustion leads down a dire pa...
All You Ever Wanted to Know about an Art Fair Jury
Art Fair Artists Success Show - February 24, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe two most important things about earning a living in the art fair business: Getting into the eventHaving work that people will buy once you're there Co-host, Cindy Lerick, joins Connie Mettler for a nuts and bolts discussion about the jury process for art festivals. Cindy is one of the only s...
Winners of the 2019 Best Art Fairs
Art Fair Artists Success Show - December 13, 2019 18:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsArtFairCalendar.com has tallied all the votes in our 2019 Best Art Fair survey (8th Annual). We had a record number of participants reporting in the favorites. The goal of the survey is to encourage "art fair tourism", bringing art lovers "52 Weeks of Art Fairs", coast to coast. There wer...
Why I'll Be Showing My Art at Artists & Charities in November
Art Fair Artists Success Show - September 09, 2019 21:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart III of a series to understand the operations of creating a new art show. Artists and Charities Hand in Hand will host its inaugural event on November 2 and 3, 2019, at the Palm Beach Convention Center in W. Palm Beach, Florida. One of the biggest challenges of promoting a new event is findi...
Where Does the Money Go? First Time Event Expenses
Art Fair Artists Success Show - August 27, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart II of a series to understand the operations of creating a new art show. Artists and Charities Hand in Hand will host its inaugural event on November 2 and 3, 2019, at the Palm Beach Convention Center in W. Palm Beach, Florida. How does a new art fair get started? What are all the steps inv...
Planning a New Art Fair - 5 easy lessons
Art Fair Artists Success Show - August 20, 2019 21:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCan Florida use another art festival? Does Palm Beach need an indoor art fair, during "the season?" Ingrid Robinson thinks so. Listen and learn how Ingrid gathers resources to host a show that will attract snowbirds to attend a new event. Joining her is Julie Mullen, co-founder of the award winni...
10th Annual Pledge Drive Drawing - Prizes for Pledges!
Art Fair Artists Success Show - May 30, 2019 21:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsYou support our websites with your donations and we really appreciate it. We couldn't do it without you. Listen as Connie Mettler, host of ArtFairRadio.com and ArtFairCalendar.com and her co hosts, Sara Shambarger, former Art Director of the Krasl Art Fair in St. Joseph, MI and NAIA board member,...
3 Artists: Creating a Career as an Artist
Art Fair Artists Success Show - May 28, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBuilding an art fair career and maintaining it through market changes, bad weather, rejections, social media challenges and personal needs takes focus, adaptability, good timing and some luck. Our entrepreneurial guests share their stories: Stephanie Wheat is a self taught handbag designer spec...
On the Road Again: Where Do You Sleep?
Art Fair Artists Success Show - May 22, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsParticipating in the nation's art fairs is not for the faint-heared or the penniless. So much overhead! We won't go into all of those costs, but a serious contender for the diversity of options and costs is lodging on the road. Some artists opt to stay near home so they can sleep in their own bed...
How I Built a New Business out of my Art Fair Career
Art Fair Artists Success Show - May 16, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThere are thousands of artists in the U.S. who participate in art fairs for years and years. There are many who drop out after a few years (it's a lot of work!). Then there are those who take their art fair experience to build their own business, leaving the street behind. A fair number have beco...
A Strategy Session: Profiting from Facebook
Art Fair Artists Success Show - March 07, 2019 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart II - Using Facebook to connect with your buyers Our guest, artist Dave Emmons has over 85,000 followers on Facebook and has cut his show schedule from over 30 a year to only 4. Will Dave's tips work for you? We highlight how Facebook works and why it is powerful, containing step by step ti...
Can Facebook Really Help You Sell Your Work?
Art Fair Artists Success Show - February 13, 2019 23:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe high overhead of doing 30 shows a year exhausting you? What if you only did 20? or 10? When I first started my websites I thought if I only I could earn an extra $500 a month that would be great. Now nearly 15 years later I'm no longer putting up a tent and traveling to events. Social media, ...
From Clothesline Art to Beloved Tradition
Art Fair Artists Success Show - August 06, 2018 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe St. James Court Art Show (Oct. 5-7, 2018) began five decades ago as a small open air art show taking up only a small corner of Old Louisville's St. James Court. It has since become the second largest event held in Louisville each year (second to the Kentucky Derby Festival). It hosts 700 arti...
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