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We’re working on a new contest in partnership with our Common Good Partner Delphi Glass! This contest is set to begin next month and end in June, but here a few details to get you amped up for it in the meantime: -Users will enter by submitting photos of a project the... » Read More

The Latest InsideHandmade Podcast This week's radio show with the founders of ArtFire will be going live on InsideHandmade.com and the Interact page tomorrow morning, so be sure to check it out! On this show, John and Tony discuss which social media tool you should use to p... » Read More

The completely redesigned and reworked “Get Started” page has just gone live on the site! This page is viewable by clicking the “Sell” tab when logged out, or by clicking here. While there is a lot of information on this page, we felt it was all nece... » Read More

Work has started on a 45 day start-up guide for new Pro users. As the name suggests, this guide will walk new members through their first 45 days on the site, offering new projects for each day to help them set up their account and use their new Pro tools to promote their b... » Read More

Want to be one of our Featured Artisans displayed at the bottom of the front page? All you have to do is fill out our quick questionnaire and provide us with a photo of yourself. We are currently looking for new Pro members to feature on the front page for the month of May. ... » Read More

Currently we have the majority of our Pro items back on Google Base, and are working with Google Base support to allow additional feeds for the sellers (Basic and Pro) with items not yet on Google Base. To avoid confusion, remember that Google Base is different from organic... » Read More

Thanks to Natasha Suter (also known as Swank on ArtFire) an ArtFire item has become a top rated trend on TrendHunter.com! Natalya Aiken’s (Artbynatalya on ArtFire) Fairytale Folklore art cuff was submitted to TrendHunter.com earlier this week by Swank and is currently... » Read More

Re-uploading Items to Google Base We’re just heard back from Google, and their cap for site feeds has been lifted for ArtFire! Previously we run into some trouble after claiming our Google Base URL (part of a new rule they put in place), and then we had to ask them to... » Read More

ArtFire Passes $2 Million in Artisan Sales Early this month, our completed artisan sales exceeded $2 million! Out of the $2 million items sold, 65% of them were handmade and fine art products. While this percentage may initially seem high, consider that 57% of the items sol... » Read More

Changes to our Sitemaps A Sitemap is a data structure and feed that helps the Google Spider crawl sites and pages. Think of it as a GPS for the Google Spider. Recently, Google has made some changes as to how it reads sitemaps, and we’re currently working to update ou... » Read More