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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
ArtFire Sneakers Announce their Second Ambush
Tonight is the luanch of the Second Artfire Ambush! Tonight we would like for you to take you time to visit this lovely shop. Today we would like to you take the time to visit She Designs Jewelry on ArtFire. She has some very lovely pieces of jewlery that you are bound to love. She has been a member of Artfire since December. So please check her out, if you like it buy it, if you can't buy it, please pass it on, and let others know of her lovely work!
Ok i'm sorry I missed last week, but here we are back again this week with our Taste of Texas Artfire weekly spotlight. Each week we feature nine different members of the Texas Artfire Guild. We are a group of artisans that work together to promote our arts in through out different methods. This week I was having a hard time coming up with a theme because all of our artisans had such a diverse selection of Artwork, so instead I just choose items that jumped at me from their shops. They are such talented artists, so please enjoy:
Texas Artfire Guilg Members Featured in this weeks Spotlight:
It's Spring and Here They Come!--Texas ArtFire Guild
It's Spring and the Blue Bonnets are coming out here in Texas! So in honor of these beautiful flowers we have made our first weekly spotlight a tribute to the blue bonnet. This is full of Blue items from some our Texas Artfire Guild Members.
This is the start of a weekly promo we will be doing with other Texas Artfire Guild Members. To feature eachothers items. Each week we will be putting together a spotlight on ByHand.me that features our different members. This week I decided to celebrate the coming of Spring, along with the blooming of the Bluebonnets. I will be going through the list alpabetically and taking nine at a time each week. This way everyone gets a chance to be featured. You will notice the one item is silver, that is because all this artisan had in their shop was silver, there is some blue in the background though!
Well most of you know that Birdy just LOVES bees. If not, one look around our site and it should just jump out at you. So while I was on artfire I thought why nto search for some Bee items, and see if I could find some I thought Birdy might like. Then I thought why not use the new ByHand spotlight feature as anouther test to see what I can do with it, and post it here for you all to see. This is a sampling of the items that I found that I thought Birdy might enjoy. The center item is our Bee Hive Stitch Markers, which links to our Etsy Shop, but the rest are from ArtFire. Please Enjoy!
Hello Everyone! I know that Birdy is a knitter and so are most of our followers, but some of you also crochet. While I was on Artfire today looking around at different items, I happened apon this great item. I wanted to share it with you all here. It also allows me to play with a neat feature on Byhand.me which allows you to create something they call spotlights. I created one with just this one item, so I could test it out.
If it doesn't work, then you can view it here: http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=ViewListing&product_id=136969 It's a PDF pattern for a crochet Banana Split Sundae! It is too cute! If Birdy could crochet, then I would ask her to make this up just to have as a cute toy for the kids. But since she can't I figured share it with the world. This artist (Melbangel2) also sells on Etsy and some other sites, but I just love the whole feel of ArtFire the company so I am trying to support them. Tell me what you think of the pattern, and if you stitch it up, send us a note with a picture, PLEASE!
Hello, this is James here, Birdy's husband, and I had a thought for a blog post. We have had this site live for over a year now. We have had some sales of different items, but we wanted to get our name out there some more, so we started an Etsy Shop. We were surprised to get 2 sales in the first day and another sale within two days of those. But have not had much luck since.
This set off a fury for me, to find all the best places to sell online. I have been searching sites, and joining sites left and right, trying to find the best way to promote our site. Some I have signed up for just to preserve our name, and some we have listed items on. We have them spread through out the land, but have not gotten any sales from any. So what do we do. Well I have been in the forums of many of the sites trying to find out what others do. Many talk about their publicizing their sites on blogs, in the forums and using online advertising. So what do I do, I get in the forums and talk a bit, set up an advertising account with project wonderful, and sign up for more accounts.
Now What?
Well I guess we keep doing it, we did get one sale from our advertising promotion, which is good to see. I have alreayd sent it off, but it is the only one we can attribute to any of these efforts. We still get sales from our regular traffic, but where do we go from here? Well I guess we mention our shops more, but now there are too many to mention. *smirks* I guess that's what you get for being over ambitious. They always say take it slow, and grow at the pace the business takes you. So we will just need to let it flow as we can. I did find a neat site, that has been somewhat helpful for us, it's called ByHand.me it has some neat functions that I have not really focussed on yet, but what I like is that you can link to all your differnt shops in one place. Just the same I thought I would list some of our shop sites here for those that are interested:
Artfire: You have heard us mention them before, and seen their links around our site.
Etsy: The most popular showcase for most people, but it is getting so over crouded that you have to constantly list just to get your items seen.
Shophandmade: It's new and allows you to list for free with sponorship, but has a good look to is and random searching.
MadeItMyself: MIM for short. I really like this site and our items get good views, but no takes yet. Still new but very helpful people.
There are many more out there, but we have not listed in them yet. I would like to see which of these are going to do well before we add more. I barely have enough time to do anything else, much less socialize on each of these sites. Oh well, let's just keep trolling along, and one day everyone will know the name of Birdy's Knits!
Hello everyone, we have opened a shop on Artifire.com now. This is a great place for artist's of all kinds to shop and showcase their items. If you would like to show off your skills, or are interested in what others have to offer, then come on over and check it out at birdysknits.artfire.com Below is a window where you can buy some of our extra beads quickly and easily without leaving this site. Give it a try!
