Sharing Your Art – And Selling It Too!

Posted by Jim Kimmons, Broker/Owner • January 28, 2009 • Printer-friendly

In my web ramblings I stumbled across Cartfly.com, a site that offers artists or crafts persons a site to set up free stores for their creations.

What seems to make it different from many others is first that it's free. Second, you get code to share with anyone that allows them to easily embed your store on their website or blog. Cartfly only gets paid if you sell something, at 3%. Add that to the 2.9% for your Paypal account, and it's not much to pay to get this ability to distribute your store all around the web. So, you don't even need your own website if it's been a challenge to get one up.

Send the code to friends or other artists. There are musicians, t-shirt creators, and other types of stores using the site as well. Below is an actual artist's store for which I grabbed code. There are two display modes, so click on the right side boxes to view both. Keep clicking on images to get to the largest size.

Here's my offer to local artists. Get set up with PayPal and Cartfly, then send me an email link to your site. Tell me a little about yourself, your location, etc. I'll create a page like this one in the Arts category just for your store. Tell me which display you like the best, or send me that code.