Connie Mettler's Blog – April 2020 Archive (9)

LIVE - THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2 PM ET

A well functioning website can change your life. It is the art fair that never closes. It can reconnect you with a former collector of your art and expose it to a worldwide audience. It opens the door very wide to…

THURS., APRIL 23, 3 PM ET

Part 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 than try new…

I know, we're all paddling as fast as we can right now and it truly is amazing how our community has come together to help one another. Great job, folks.

Here are two surveys from art festival organizations focused on working to make things better for you in the upcoming days. Can you help these folks…

FRIDAY - APRIL 17, 1 PM ET

APRIL 16, 4 PM ET - Can we do it again? Finally fill out these forms? We did it last week and now it's time again. Let's do this together.

The CARES Act offers several programs to help small business people. The Payroll…

Live Podcast: Friday, April 10 - 1 pm ET

Are you eligible for disaster loan assistance? Probably? Maybe? Together we'll find out. Host Connie Mettler from Art Fair Calendar/Art Fair Insiders and "volunteers from the audience" (Meg Mettler (Art…

A provision of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package approved last month

will spread $250 billion in one-time direct payments across most households. Individuals with adjusted gross incomes (line 7 on your 2018 tax return) of up to $75,000 a year will receive $1,200, and married couples earning up to $150,000 will receive $2,400. The checks will shrink as incomes…

We're all scrambling to help one another in this business as we know how tenuous many people's incomes are. Many thanks to Mark Loeb of metro Detroit's Integrity Shows for developing these workshops.…

MONDAY, APRIL 6 - 1 PM ET

ArtFest Fort Myers under Executive Director Sharon McAllister's leadership, has initiated a plan to act as a clearinghouse to help…