Hi everyone,
We have just setup our shop a week ago due to Etsy suspended us with no reason and we appealed and said we followed all policies but they still said no and permanently suspended so we have no trust in Etsy.
Anyways we just wondered if anyone had any tips? We’re a small jewellery business which currently handcraft beaded bracelets, phone charms earrings etc.
TIA
MonWhitch UK
Cameron
With jewellery being highly competitive, what’s your unique selling point? You need good photos. Options to purchase variations and highly descriptive details of why your jewellery is going to be special for whoever buys it. The better your photos, and the easier you make it for people to purchase will help. All you have at the moment is three bracelets of differing colours with no means to purchase variations.
Hi Cameron - always nice to have new sellers.
It’s is different on Folksy to Etsy but you’ll find people are very friendly here and willing to help if you have questions.
Look at some of the forums and ‘talk Folksy’ to find your way around and tips on how to set up etc. (there’s lots of advice on setting up from admin and it’s worth reading the guides). The biggest difference between Folksy and Etsy is that Folksy don’t promote your shop like Etsy did - so you’ll have to use social media more and ‘do it yourself’ if you want to generate sales. Luckily Folksy admin are very good and will point you in the right direction if you ask for help.
Most established sellers like Folksy very much and we all pull together to promote the company and each other - however you may find sales are slower on Folksy than on Etsy especially when you start out. Good luck with your new shop.
Thank you! I guess the aim of the game is to promote! Thanks again for your support!
Thank you for your feedback! We only uploaded our first product a few days ago but we will have more this weekend😁 how do you mean variations? Different types of that product or colours?
There are a couple of things I would suggest, in addition to what has already been suggested:
Fill in the ‘About’ section of your shop. People like to know a little about who they are buying from when buying handmade.
Try and make your 1st photograph square. Folksy crop photo’s square when displaying on your shop front, or on the Folksy home page. If they are not square to start with then vital bits can get cut off when cropped.
Add more items to your shop to give people choice. I didn’t even open my shop until I had about a dozen items to list. I then added a couple more items each week.
Regularly promoting your shop on Social media is key to success on Folksy.
Lots of help also available on the Folksy blog.
Yes, you get the option on here for variations of the same product but different colours etc.
Thank you, we will look into this!
Thank you for the tips! We will defo put these into place 
I like your items, and hope you get busy with orders soon.
With your variations, I would use a drop down box, so the customer can choose which fruit they require, rather than giving them a list, which they have to type in which one they require, buyers can be lazy 
so the easier you make it the better
Maybe use some measurements as well, you say “All of our products get shipped with cute Stickers and Packaging” perhaps have some photos of the items amd packing and stickers (noticed this on another jewellery seller’s shop)
Great ideas! Thank you soo much Stephen! Amazing website by the way
Thank you for this advice! We’ll be putting your suggestions into place😁 We will also check out the forum you linked, thanks again!
Hi A little point but worth a mention. On my laptop the little tag you have put on your photos…Free shipping… eeeerr I can’t read them on your shop front… had to zoom in to see what it actually says… Maybe a clear font would be better.
I really don’t think it is my eyes, pretty well 20 20 vision and I don’t need glasses. If I can’t read it on my laptop then pretty sure it would be impossible on a tiny phone and most shoppers on here are on their mobiles not laptops.
Lucky you living in Monmouth. I lived in Mileend, Coleford for over 10 years and still miss it. In fact am back there tomorrow as our dentist is in Pyatt’s court.
My advice would be change the fonts on your Free Shipping labels. You need your customers to be able to read/see what you’re trying to sell as easily as possible. Those fonts are unreadable at first glance, and first glance is how you’ll lose buyers if you don’t get it right.
Thank you very much for letting us know! We will change the font and maybe make it bigger also on our photos!
Thank you for letting us know! We will get this fixed right away!
Hi good luck with your shop.
I think a little more in the descriptions and more photos on some items
Can I ask if you have just set up shop why you have already reduced your items to less 50% ?
I agree with others that the ‘free shipping’ label is hard to read, I think a different font would work better.
Thanks for the advice! We thought maybe offering 50% off would help boost the shop!
Yes i can understand that, perhaps rather than having them on Sale you could do it as an introductory offer type thing, on SM you could advertise as a new shop and for X amount of time you have a half price offer and prices will then increase to their full amount etc. I think its better than offering a sale price if the item hasn’t been in at a higher amount to begin with.
Anyway good luck with your shop, hope you get your first sale soon.
Thanks for the advice! Didn’t realise you could do that😁
