I am patient, honestly I am but how long should I give it here on Folksy to get that first sale?
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Do you promote on social media? Join in the daily challenge threads. Liking and pinning others makes helps. I have a Folksy creations board on Pinterest and like and pin daily others work as well as mine. Spreads the word.
Personally I would change your shop announcement slightly as sounds a bit negative. Offer the discount but take out the bit about yet to achieve a sale.
‘I am new to Folksy although not new to online selling but as I have yet to achieve my first sale here I would like to offer you a 20% discount. Just use this code at the checkout: ’
Perhaps something like ‘As a new Folksy seller I am offering an introductory discount of 20% on any purchases’
It took me a while as closed my shop for quit a few years. Reopened this year and done well. I closed my own website and have done better on Folksy.
Promotion is the key, check your stats at the end of each month where your visitors have come from. Promote daily. Good luck it will happen.
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How are you promoting your shop as I’m not seeing an social media links on your shop front? If you are uncertain about how to use social media there are plenty of tips on the folksy blog. You don’t need to use all the social medias at once, pick one to start with and when you are happy with that try another one - there might be some that you just don’t get on with (for me that is twitter) so you can leave that one out.
You have a number of christmas items so I’d revamp those listings (and then promote them) - could you take fresh photos with them styled on a christmas tree? That would help people imagine what they would look like on their tree. I’d also go over the descriptions and tags - I was advised to write descriptions as if describing the item to a blind person as search algorithms can’t see the photos. You need to include info about patterns, textures and style as well as size and materials. There are tips on how to write a description that gets found by search algorithm on the blog. You can use ‘shopkeeping’ on the dashboard to move all the christmassy listings to the top of your shop. Here’s a link to the blog
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It was a couple of weeks before I had my first sale here on Folksy, and then I waited a couple of months for my second. It’s taken 9 years for me to get to 550+. This is the time of year to really get behind your shop. I love your crochet bunnies and bears, adorable, I hope you do well on them this Christmas. Hang on in there!
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Thank you for the replies, all of which are helpful.
I am on Twitter and Instagram and I use Pinterest having a board for things I like on Folksy and then pin to it.
I have never found any social media to be of help in attaining sales, ever. Negative comment I know but truthful. I left FB years ago because my business page promoted many other peoples stuff but no one returned the favour.
As for these forums, I find them complicated to use and so I don’t promote here either.
I need to have a re think.
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Dog sweaters should be starting to sell now. Make sure you are on Instagram and get the right hashtags, and interaction is important, respond to people if the post a reply. I think it’s a shame the photos on Folksy aren’t very big when displayed on our shop front. Some of your photos aren’t showing the whole item, they are cut off. But photos are key.
Think it’s slow at the moment. Hopefully things should pick up soon…
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If you are relying on people already browsing on Folksy for your sales rather than driving people to your shop via promotion then it is essential that you get your listings/ tags/ photos in tip top shape so that you rank highly in searches and that people find your photos ‘clickable’ so they click through from the search results to the item page to read the details. For example I ran a search for ‘gingerbread man tree decorations’ and ‘gingerbread man decoration’ which should of returned several of your items yet none of them were in the search results. The blog has several articles on how to write descriptions and choose tags I suggest you have a read of those.
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Thank you, I will re look at my tags.
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I didn’t see how to reply directly like this before. You are right though, it should be done.
Thank you for the help. I had trouble with my photos not loading and I contacted Folksy who said my files were too large so I downloaded an app to alter the size …so much faffing around. Photos are key though.
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Thanks Carol. I will take on board what you suggested and re word my announcement.
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Yes I know. Good luck.
Hi there, I’m in the same boat. I’m in Pinterest and FB and have had my account now for over two months and sold nothing,it is soul destroying and knocks your confidence. I need to be crafting and many of the things I make are very time consuming so need to spend time making rather than promoting. I have my first market sale in November and if things do better there I will close this account. Hope you have success.Best wishes Margaret
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Thanks Margaret. I am happy to say that having emptied most of my Folksy shop last weekend and put my goods back to my etsy shop, I got my first sale here on Folksy! I was totally shocked and of course delighted by the sale.
I truly hope you too will get that first sale very soon too; your cards look very original and nicely made.
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Thank you. I’m working with alcohol inks and acrylics at the moment and I do enjoy it but it is time-consuming so haven’t put them in the shop yet. I’m very glad you’ve made a breakthrough,long may it continue. Best wishes Margaret
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I waited 3 months for my first sale and now have over 600 but I have been here for 10 years now. Never give up as it takes a while…x
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