put the results of this one into your experiment @HandbagsbyHelen 
16 people reached (out of 5000+)
ā¦and 30 ālikesā
i think facebook is a curious law unto itself!
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Itās all bit of a mystery. I find Facebook quite difficult to work out. Iāve a business page attacked to my own page and Iām unsure that it helps. Anything I write in the ātimelineā bit seems to reach further than anything I post on the business page and the business page definitely lags in terms of winning/earning likes.
Iāve just started an instagram account so will see what happens there. I keep reading that people are finding it amazing in terms of getting their work out āthereā.
As an aside to this I do belong to a few wildlife/gardening type groups n Facebook and although it doesnāt directly affect my business stuff, Itās interesting to see how many more likes/comments those posts earn. Does that say that Iām more interesting when discussing bugs and bees or does it suggest we need a group? to herd all like minded together or is that a complete red herring? Perhaps we could have a Folksy Enamelling group or Folksy stitching group ā¦ might help extend our collective reaches out into the wider world?
Anyone information gratefully received 
I have found recently that if I post more than one picture, hardly anyone sees the post. If it is just one photo, then it is definitely seen by more. I do wish that more of my likers saw my posts, but I am certainly only putting up one picture now.
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Do you āchatā on your page? Talk about things relevant to your business (like how you choose what fabric, the steps you take when designing something new, that sort of thing), so that people have something to chat back to you about.
Youāve probably hit the nail on the head. Thank you for that. I know it sounds stupid but I never think that anyone will find that interesting but I guess that what connecting is all about. For the rest of this week/and next Iāll experiment in posting more about the process and see what happens.
Iāll report back ā¦
J 
In my experience the reason why the wildlife groups probably gets more engagement is because itās chatty and itās not trying to sell anything to anybody.
Chatty FB posts generally get more interaction than ālook what Iām selling postsā
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Oh! Donāt shatter my illusionā¦maybe my mum just kept visiting my page loads of times!!?
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I think youāre rightā¦ itās a good point to make. I just wish there were so many more hours in the day to get it all done.
I donāt know how many times you post on FB, but 2/3 times a week is plenty. The key is to be consistent, so try and post just 2/3 times a week every week. The worse thing to do is to post loads and then just stop x
Thank you for the advice - itās appreciated.
Here is an extract from a recent blog post on Folksy.
Do you think the recent
Facebook changes have affected your reach?
Oddly enough, we asked this very question on our page at the beginning of
January. Almost 400 people answered and only three people hadnāt noticed a
change. Thatās pretty conclusive! Weāve noticed changes, too. When it started I
was scared, because I think weāve become too comfortable with FB and it felt a
little like the rug may be pulled out from under us, but Iāve learned not to
worry about it as much. Our reach is about a tenth of what it was, but we ignore it now. I donāt look at our Likes counter or how much of a response any given post gets. I could spend days
obsessing over how to get our reach back up, but thatās time Iād prefer to
spend actually making our jewellery.
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