what would you like to know?

I'm pretty happy with the site as a whole. Only had a few minor problems and they were quickly addressed

well.....are u happy with the views and sales?is it easy to be there?

it better than etsy

it easy for sellers to find you?

i find it very easy to be there in terms of site admin and functionality, ive never sold on Etsy

ive had 200 sales in 22 months which im happy with but like all online venues it takes promo work

much better than etsy, my sellers find me fine and I am quite happy with my views

but

i use my RSS feed to auto post to twitter & facebook etc

views could be better but thats because ive been ill and havent been able to promote as much as i would have liked

my sales always come a lot from a well known fiber artists links

i had openned a shop there sometime during 2009 but nothing happened..of course I m not really well with social networking

i use twitterfeed but am soon going to switch to Ping so it will do some autoposting for me.

and I was even worse during 2009...I had lost my father a few months before opening the shop there and

i like the arrangement of AF but as i said, ive never sold online elsewhere as i dont like the final fees

social networking was like chinese to me...

Victoria and Diane , thank you for all the info!

I am thinking of ginving another shot with Artfire since I m not doing well at etsy either...

well you do have to work at it, list a lot of items, make sure your seo is optimized, etc

so many open a shop, put two things in it and then ask why it isnt working

read the 45 days guide here www.artfire.com/users/45... as it has some good tips

Diane, I had listed quite a few..but ofcourse they werent enough...and I know I didnt do enough..but I also know I m not

ng enough on etsy..so....this is why I decided to take it all more seriously

is your AF still "open" - what the link?

I haven't sold any jewellery so far, but some supplies, and when you have a few sales it's cheaper than Etsy, since it's a fixed cost

you don't need to relist at all, there is no per sale or per item cost

www.artfire.com/modules.... this is the link

it needs a revamp desperately..

yes, but do you relist?how can the buyers find you if u dont relist?

i dont really 'sell' on etsy, i have stuff in a shop there, but i dont do anything with it and surprise surprise i dont sell

much there , but i dont expect to either, simply because it's not a store i promote

my artfire stores i work...and i have decent sells there *of course i would love for them to be more but i do well enough for it to be a

'real' job and i'm satisfied with that

yay Marie!

i also have a niche that i market too, which is rather nice

well, I ve decided that this might be the last year, year and a half that I m going to be making and selling jewelry..that is, if things

dont go as well as they have to cos, I wont be able to pay for supplies out of my month's check..SO, I will do everything

I possible can this year to promote my shop-or shops and see how it goes.....

I really do hope that I will do the right things to get my shops moving, cos I will be heartbroken if things dont turn out as they need to

anyway, thank you all for the info u provided

I really appreciate it

You don't need to relist, because the search actually works

exactly lotta, and the relist mentality is totally etsy so that they can make money on the relisting fees also

*nod* what franni said!

it's not like Etsy. AF has some great features, but I do miss the clean look that Etsy has.