• Arts & Cultural Media Guide- Completely Revised and Expanded May 2004
• Art World Mailing Lists: Artmarketing.com
• Free Business Management Tool for Fine Artists
• Fuel 4 Arts Marketing Resources

Arts & Cultural Media Guide - Completely Expanded and Updated in May 2004

The Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County compiled a list of sources where Western New York arts and cultural organizations may post events for free.  The Arts & Cultural Media Guide contains contact information for newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, tourism publications and online directories.

The Arts & Cultural Media Guide is available as a PDF file you may download for free and print.

If you are a representative of a media source, and would like to add or update information in the sourcebook, please forward your information to:

Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County
Attention: Arts & Cultural Media Guide Dept.
700 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 856-7520

Please include:

• The name of your media source and publication interests
• The contact person who handles arts and cultural news
• The address, fax number and/or email address where arts and cultural groups may send information
• Your deadline
• Your phone number
• Your website address, if people may submit information online

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Art World Mailing Lists & Art Marketing.com

Go to www.artmarketing.com to purchase lists to galleries, artists, art councils, art publications and publishers, greeting card publishers, print distributors, licensing agents, calendar publishers, book publishers, corporations collecting art and photography, corporate art consultants, college art departments, libraries, art exhibition spaces, art organization newsletters, museums, architects, interior designers and frame and poster galleries.

www.artmarketing.com also features information on marketing yourself as an artist, including the book, Arts Marketing 101.

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Let's face it, most fine artists are a bit disorganized with the management of their business. Marketing Artist helps get business records in order:

• manages patron and client contracts
• keeps a journal of each contract
• inventories artwork
• records the history of art piece created along with a jpg of the original
• tracks show entries
• track projects
•  tracks consignments

This software was created specifically for fine artists by LiveWire Contacts Inc. with the help of the author of Art Marketing 101, Constance Smith. With her marketing expertise, she knows exactly what artists need to do to keep communication with clients running smoothly.

• maintains a calendar of appointments
• maintains a, 'to-do' list
• sends e-mails reminders about upcoming appointments
• prints mailing labels from your contact list
• sends e-mails to particular groups you request about upcoming shows

Functions on any computer - All you need do is connect to the Internet.  No need to download any software.

Chat Room - A chat room allows you to post questions, comments and news so the artists can market their work.

Offered Free - Usage of this software is offered free to small businesses (50 contacts/artworks 1 Mb of storage). Those businesses that need more extensive file space can subscribe starting at $9.95 per month, A subscription includes storage space, 1000 contacts or artworks. An additional 25Mb of storage space is available at $4.95 per month.

On-Line Demo - To test out this software, simply go on-line to www.marketingartist.com . Any questions, suggestions or problems you might have please contact help@marketingartist.com.

Fuel4Arts.com offers arts marketing tools and ideas. Visit www.fuel4arts.com to subscribe to their arts marketing newsletter, read articles and use interactive web tools to help your organization or artistic career grow.