Are sales picking up?
For the second time this week I’ve signed into Folksy to see one of my items ‘‘being bought now’’ only to find neither actually made it through the checkout!
And I’m wondering how many times this happens with other sellers?
It’s happened to us too, on more than one occasion.
Have noticed (in the art section) that it happens all the time to lots of items which never reach it to having been sold. Have even taken to checking up in the actual shops and no sales have happened. Most peculiar?
No, I think people just collect items they like the look of in their basket as they browse and then make a choice at the end - I do it on some sites too. It’s just an easy way to shop.
My views graph started relentlessly going down at exactly the same spot it started going up last year- it’s sort of done the splits at, I reckon, about the time they changed the front page…
After having a lull I have had a couple of orders in the last few days - and I saw one of them saying “being bought now” - I was a bit sceptical but it did sell. I agree with you about the signing in @JOYSofGLASS
I’m not on here to sell, I am just on here to give Folksy my plus account fee, and to fill the categories a bit. It sounds as if I am not alone. (I am just being facetious, well at least trying). Marg. x
Im really frustrated - It’s hard work - promoting and marketing and no return on investment - money or time !!! And I’m selling ok other places !!! I just can’t figure it out although when I look at the home page and it says 150 or even 350 people are currently using this site then I think that might be it !!! We need thousands of people to be viewing and shopping here - all the time !!!
Kim, facebook used to automatically show a picture of your folksy items, but I noticed this last few days that it doesn’t…not sure why…so NOW I show a picture from my pc and then add my folksy shop link…I think facebook want us all to sell using Shopify and are trying to scupper our links !
Thanks Brenda, that is what I have started doing now and it will be interesting to see if it makes any difference.
I did get a sale on Sunday, but that was from a photo I posted on a forum I belong to…not Facebook, Twitter or even someone browsing here.
Thanks for this Joy I only started on FB earlier this year and I’m still trying to get the hang of it. Because it’s easy to Tweet from here, and have tweets go to FB automatically that’s what I’ve mostly been doing. But if no-one is going to see those posts then I’ll just have to allocate extra time to tinkering and sneak past the FB meanies.
Hallelujah…finally got a sale and not from someone I know !!! …plus I had another one via a different source and my sister and brother in law are going to take spare stock into school as they are both teachers. Lets hope the Xmas rush will now start for everyone !!!
I sold a pendant to a fellow Foksy seller and I’m hoping she likes it. Still listing things, though it does seem to take ages to do. Would anyone else agree that a saved template would be useful,with the used-every-time phrases?
The sales were good in September then I was out of UK for three weeks, just came back this Saturday. Now I am waiting for the sales to pick up again, I hope :).