Feedback on the zoom meetings ‘back to business’ last week

I have just started to watch the zoom from last week and thought would be good to have what tips and tricks you found useful and are going to implement.

I am part way through the Hobbycraft one and one thing I thought was good would be a pre+order button on our shops and only use if we wanted to. Particularly as buying supplies is expensive but to make to order several months in advance would be fantastic. Would need the facility to take a deposit though to cover initial costs. The lady hosting has already sold 500 metres of fabric and has not got it yet.

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I’ve only managed to watch the Wednesday one about listings. I wanted to see what was said to see if I could improve my listings to get more sales on here.

It was interesting and I think I could look at most of mine but not sure my heart is 100% in doing it.

At the end you could change from monthly paying to annually with 20% off - offer ended on Sunday but they weren’t available to watch till this week.

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I believe the offer was only available to people who were new to Folksy. I may be wrong.

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Folksy gave a reduction if you renewed to annual from monthly which I did this year, worth saving some money.

Do you know where I would find the details of that? The offer they mentioned on the zoom was for this weekend only.

@CraftstoKeep I have emailed them to see if I can still receive the offer.

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I got an email on my renewal date, when the fees went up to £7.50 per month the £60 was a no brainer.

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The offer during Back to Business week was only for people who are new to Plus, you would not be able to use it if you already have a monthly Plus account (even if you didn’t watch the webinars until this week, the discount was promoted on social media, the blog and the daily reminder emails that went out last week).

Paying annually is already a reduction compared to paying monthly though (£75 a year rather than £90 for 12 months).

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@konyskiw If you are just a standard member here, could they have taken the offer up do you know?
It didn’t seem to make that clear.
I did ask this question in the comments on IG (where it was posted) a few hours before the close on Sunday, but didn’t see an answer.
I may have considered it if so.
Judy

@konyskiw I listened to it a couple of times and it came over as changing to annual fees.

After the webinars, i have set up a subscription emailing list with pencil booth. Its free to set up and for up to 100 subscribers. It sends out a newsletter by email with images, short text etc. Heres my link if you want to check them out.
https://pencilbooth.com/pamadoodle
Not sure how to get subscribers, maybe print a flyer with qr code to stick on my stall?

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So what I have done is make this sign for my stall, with qr codes for my newsletter and folksy shop.

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Hi Pam.
I think your Facebook link needs fixing. It isn’t working normally. Showing as
https:/ /facebook.com/pamadoodle.
Xx
Ps I have had to insert a space between the /s as otherwise it tries to resolve the URL

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Thanks. I just went to my shop and clicked link, it worked. Which link did you mean?

Your Facebook button. It tells me I have to sign in to facebook.i am already signed in and it doesn’t do that to anyone elses FB button on their shop front. ?
Very odd. I went to your pamadoodle FB page after finding it by search. Hit link to your Folksy shop and tried the fb button again
I get :

Odd, it didn’t do that for me, but it takes you to the browser version, not the app. I’ll take a look.

I think you are missing a www.
This is mine
https:/ /www.facebook.com/JOYSOFGLASS?ref=hl

I’ve got the link from my Facebook account and pasted it in. Hopefully ok now. Thanks

How odd. Can’t explain it but on my phone. Will look on laptop later… just got legs up at moment,got an achy knee.

Can someone else try the link as well ?

I just tried the FB icon on the Folksy shop, where all the social media links are, and it took me straight to the right page. Tried from a laptop, not a phone though if it helps x

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