The 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 g...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2019/02/13/can-facebook-really-help-you-sell-your-work
The premise: As a "new" artist attempting to earn a living at the nation's art fairs I often think about the business side of things. People are suprised that I even attempt the notion of doing ...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2017/01/31/is-anyone-here-earning-a-living
The fastest way to earn money with your art is to participate in art fairs. The buyer enters your booth, loves the work, hands you the payment and your work has found a new home. It's not always...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2016/09/27/should-i-open-an-art-gallery
(If this show does not play, please click this link: http://mygoldenwords.com/interview-with-connie-mettler-of-art-fair-insiders/) Mckenna Hallett, a professional trainer and consultant for small...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2016/06/22/selling-art-face-to-face
The guests: Scott Fox, author and e-biz strategist who focuses on online marketing, e- commerce, using the Internet to build businesses and finally doing the work you were born to do. His popu...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2016/05/26/10-tips-to-use-now-for-artists-show-organizers
It is application season! Anyone active in the art fair business is deep into preparing applications for jurying into the nation's art fairs. What are the odds you'll make the cut and get into...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2016/02/03/10-reasons-you-didnt-get-in-the-art-fair
The interested parties have come to your party: that Art Festival you have been planning and marketing for 364 days. How do you make sure they love the show, bring their friends, buy art, spre...
Our guest will be graphic artist Carroll Swayze. Carroll has a great story about how working smarter, not harder, has put more money in her pocket and enabled her to do more of the things she ...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2015/05/29/fewer-shows-more-money
How do I get into the good art fairs and how do I make money when I get there? These are the universal questions that need to be answered for earning a living in the fine art and fine craft show ...
How does an art festival market their event to the public without big name entertainers, wine tasting areas, children's stages, interactive activities for fairgoers? In other words, strictly an ...
In the beginning art fairs were created and artists and art buyers flocked to attend. You were one of them. Your mother and your friends thought your work was wonderful and maybe they were right,...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2014/07/08/my-first-art-fair-a-zero-or-a-hero
As the new interim executive director took on the reins at the Bayou City Art Festival in Houston late last year, it became apparent to Susan Fowler that the organization was stretched beyond...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2014/05/22/what-really-happened-in-houston-at-bayou-city
Did you ever see such a business for high overhead as the art fair business? Travel expenses, booth fees, employees, tents, studio space, art supplies, credit card fees, etc. We talk to two ar...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2014/02/21/taxes-artists-keep-their-books
Our guest is Sheryl Kosovski, a certified Financial Recovery Coach who specializes in business development for creative people, helping artists and designers grow their businesses, make more ...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2013/12/03/no-more-starving-artists-money-101
Our guests are potters Jan Richardson and Robert Briscoe, well known in the artist community not only for their fine work but their generosity in developing opportunities for other artists. L...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2013/09/25/art-fair-alternatives--part-ii-art-studio-tours
What can an art fair do to bring serious buyers to attend their events to buy art? Our guests today are from two of the top rated shows in the country. Tne La Quinta Arts Festival is a large f...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2013/08/14/how-to-bring-buyers-to-the-art-fairs
Art fairs not working for you? Not getting into the shows where you know you can sell your work? Tired of being on the road? Looking for a new adventure? Meet two painters who can say both yes ...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2013/06/18/art-fair-alternatives--part-i-two-painters
Carolyn Bird and Alice Moulton, longtime organizers of the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival in Winter Park, FL, join Connie Mettler of ArtFairInsiders.com to talk about one of the best shows in ...
Most artists have made their peace with the digital upload systems, www.Zapplication.org, www.JuriedArtServices.com and www.EntryThingy.com. If you want to participate in the better shows you sig...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2013/05/15/artists-art-fairs-zapp
New art fairs are necessary for the evolution of the art fair business because artists need new markets and even reliable shows sometimes don't continue to thrive. We speak with 4 show directors ...
Everything an Artist Needs to Know about Insurance Art fairs can be a dangerous business fraught with problems of high winds, theft, traveling with artwork, liability issues, damages to equipment...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2013/02/19/high-winds-liability-flying-tents-and-art-fairs
In a business full of taking chances the first big challenge an artist has is to make the jury cut at the shows. After all, if you can't get into the show you aren't in business. I'll be speaking...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2012/11/21/how-art-fairs-choose-and-run-their-juries
Who gets into almost all of the top shows and can win Best of Show? Meet Jody dePew McLeane (pastel drawings) and Ted Gall (sculptor), involved in the art fair business for over 30 years and cons...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2012/09/27/jody-depew-mcleane-ted-gall-winning-all-the-prizes
Barney Davey, brings his expertise as an art marketing consultant to help artists bridge the gap between making art and making a living. As a sales and marketing executive for Decor magazine and ...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2012/09/13/pricing-marketing-your-art--dont-think-small
Guest Scott Fox, author of Click Milliionaires, gets down to the most strategic, smart and inexpensive ways you can: get a website up and running for little money why you need it quick and easy w...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2012/08/14/what-good-is-a-website-for-artists
Any weekend, anywhere in the U.S., there are hundreds of art fairs filled with artists and the people who love attending the shows. Who is that person who is examining your work and maybe taking ...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2012/07/26/who-is-buying-at-the-shows-and-why
Connie Mettler will be speaking with Kathrine Allen-Coleman, a painter from Georgia who participated in Coconut Grove, Reston, Old Town, Columbus, Des Moines, Ann Arbor Street Art Fair and moreAn...
Connie Mettler talks with Cindy Lerick, director of the Saint Louis Art Fair and Stephen King, director of the Des Moines Arts Festival. Their background Mission of their events What is a non-pro...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2012/02/27/art-fair-directors-cindy-lerick-stephen-king
Host Connie Mettler talks with artists Barbara Poole (fiber), Caroline Kwas (painting) and Michelle Wermuth (photography), new to the art fair business in the last few years, to discuss their big...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2012/01/10/art-fair-101--new-to-the-business--part-ii
Host Connie Mettler talks with four artists who are new to the art fair business, having started in 2009 or 2010 and are members of ArtFairInsiders.com. They include Michelle Wermuth, a photograp...
The ArtFairInsiders.com and ArtFairCalendar.com art fair web sites are dedicated to helping you increase attendance at your local art events, make more money as an art show artist, and supporting...
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/artfairs/2010/05/26/art-fair-birthday-celebration-and-pledge-drive