Time for online!

This past year I've been focusing more on making products to sell at stores and craft fairs. Now that craft fair season is coming to an end, I will be working on making my online stores more active for customers nation.-- wait, I meant WORLDWIDE. I currently have an Etsy and Artfire store that I've been neglecting and they both need love right now. I'm also still in the works of bringing a website to life and do more advertising to bring traffic onto the online ramp.

As much as I am on the computer with emailing, surfing, and Facebook, it's not as easy as it sounds to actually post things to sell. My products are all one of a kind so that means I have to take individual photos and write each description. Another problem I've been having is how to take nice photos of my work to make them appealing online. Lots of work for this small time purse maker but it will be done!

Esty and Art Fire

From my experience, etsy.com is more well known than artfire.com yet the people that know of artfire.com seem to like it more. I sell on both, being on etsy.com longer though. I've had a couple of sales but that was over a span of a couple of years, nothing to brag about. I haven't had a sale on artfire.com but within the year I've joined, I've had more inquiries for custom orders from it.

I think because etsy.com is widely known, I know more artists that use it and some have done very well on it while others, such as myself, do not get many sales. I don't have many items listed on etsy.com or artfire.com due to the fact that I don't have good way of taking quality photos of my work but I'm hoping that will change when I get a light box going. Another site that I've posted on is craftgawker.com but I don't know how many hits I get on there. I also have this blog and a Facebook fan page but I don't seem to be gaining a strong fan base. Gotta keep working on getting exposure, I guess!