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If you have some time over the next few days and want to take advantage of upping your knowledge of earning a living as an artist, here are our best podcasts to help you on your way.

(As an aside, these podcasts can be found online anywhere  podcasts are hosted, including ArtFairRadio.com, Apple Podcasts -- download any time.)

1. Can a Website Contribute to Art Sales? Our newest podcast and just about my favorite ever, inspiring and so helpful. Five artists, with prices from $15 to $8000, talk about their experience selling online. They are so smart, business-savvy and motivated to make the business work for them. By the end you will be inspired.
2. How Artists Can Apply for Economic Relief -- ArtFest Fort Myers under Executive Director Sharon McAllister's leadership, is using their website to act as a clearinghouse to help artists interpret and access the financial services under the CARES Act.  Sharon is joined by accountant John Brodie of Comprehensive Accounting in metro Detroit.
3. 10 Reasons You Didn't Get in the Art Fair -- show directors from the St. Louis Art Fair, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the St. James Court Art Show speak from experience
4. How We Bring Buyers to our Art Fairs -- Patty Gregory of Belleville's Art in the Square and Christi Salamonie of the La Quinta Art Festivals share their tactics
5. 10 Tips to Use Now for Artists and Show Directors -- Do you have questions about using the Internet to further your career or better position your art fair online? Anything Internet, Scott can answer and point you in the right direction. Concerned about your jury imaging, booth design, visual appeal, digital help? Larry is the expert.
6. Who is Buying at the Shows and Why-- the art fair buyers tell us what brings them to the art fairs and what they buy
7. Is Anyone Here Earning a Living? -- We speak with art fair artists who actually pay the bills and make a living. Are there people like that? This is a very practical nuts and bolts discussion of entrepreneurship. Creating art and earning a living with it are two separate endeavors.
8. My First Art Fair - Zero or Hero? -- A panel of beginner and experienced artists from various media discuss their "first time."
9. The No Mistake Art Fair Career - 10 tips from Larry Berman and Bruce Baker: we talk about nailing getting into the show and then how to make sure when you get there that your work sells.
10. Online Marketing for Artists 101: an oldie, but goodie because good advice never changes.

and for when times change: Selling Art Face to Face -- Ever hear, "I'll think about it? " Gain confidence and learn what to DO and SAY when they say they need to think about it! Listen to find out what to do next including solid tips to take to your next show.

That's the tip of the iceberg. Fine 80 more helpful episodes always available to you at ArtFairRadio.com

My most recent podcast "Let's Start an Art Fair" was full of great information for anyone who is starting  an art fair and those of you who are continually working to improve and grow the event you already have in place.

Rae Marie Schneider and Kim House started the St. John's River Festival of the Arts in Sanford, FL, in 2012 and just as they got really busy the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin exploded all over the news. They had to work on damage control to make people believe their community was a safe place for an event. You'll also learn their grassroots organizing and why they are really looking forward to year two.

Dennis Gorg is a known event organizer in St. Louis and June 1 & 2 will see his inaugural Midtown Taste ART FAIR. His expertise is pretty obvious as he speaks and discusses why sometimes a festival (that includes music, restaurants, children's activities) is the best answer to promote and sell art, never losing the focus that the art comes first.

Tim Reilly is stepping deep into the water promoting a fine art festival in his town of Madison, GA, The Cotton South Fine Arts Festival. He shares his ideas of how an art fair can really stretch start up dollars with one's connections throughout his city and ideas for supporting artists so they can afford to spend the weekend at his show.

A few tips along the way:

• by having components for income besides booth fees can help support an event and keep expenses low
• don't be afraid to innovate, develop new media channels (really work the social media)
• listen to the artists, they probably know more about events than you do
• utilize your local contacts and connections even those that seem unrelated to your specific goals
• let local hotels know about your show so out-of-towners can attend

Lots more right here: Let's Start an Art Fair

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You can hear some great (free) art fair business-building tips from ArtFairInsiders.com publisher, Connie Mettler, and learn more about the annual Birthday Pledge Drive, too.

Listen to the Connie Mettler interview here or download an MP3 here.

You can also download an MP3 of the recent "Nels & Munks Interview" here.

Thanks for listening! (and for pledging here, too!)