In the jewellery section where there can eaily be 20 pages of items to look through (even if you’ve put a search term in rather than just browsing) relisting your items regularly keeps them on the first few pages as age of listing is factored in by the algorithm and the categories are displayed newest first. Having the plus account means that you don’t get charged each time you list but only makes finacial sense if you are going to be listing/ relisting over 250 times per year so if you have 10 items and relist them every month its not worth going plus (only 120 listings) but if you have 25 listings and relist every month it is (300 listings). If you are in a much less crowded category where there could only be a page or 2 of items anyway then regular relisting doesn’t have such an impact so your jewellery could benefit from regular relisting but the kit might not. Hope that make sense.
Sasha
Hi @Bonschelle as Sasha pointed out relisting regularly will keep you more visible in the categories and you can do this everyday if you wish with the plus account. Perhaps you could add more items to your shop too, I know when you aren’t selling you think it’s not viable but sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate.
Thanks very much for the information dawn and Sasha:)
I find it is fits and starts on Folksy however I definitely get more shop views when regularly listing new items. I am a bit rubbish on social media but I do use Pinterest and find it a good way of promoting items and Craftjuice also good. Best wishes.
I think that if you look at most of the really successful Folksy shops (most of them probably don’t know that there is a forum here) they generally have Folksy as their only or main selling outlet and that they send all their potential customers here.
Also I think it helps if you have the “Folksy” look (which I spent 2 or 3 years trying to get & gave up) so that you get picked for the Gift Guides, Folksy favourites, Featured shops etc. If your face fits you can actually rotate quite often through the front page which has to be a very positive thing! You can spot the Folksy look quite easily but achieving it is not quite as simple…
Good luck with your shop @Bonschelle it’s fabulous 
Karenscrafty bits,I agree with you about loving your little shop,I feel like this is where I belong too.I have had my work on other sites and they were nothing like this,I feel at home here.I have been on print on demand sites for my paintings and they are the pits,with their charges, for me to make any mark up a print comes out at more than I would charge for an original and they cram in about 300 new members a day that makes it even harder to get seen.
Folksy is o.k,nice sized community of nice interactive people that are helpfull,I am sure sales will come.
Hi. I am new here, never made a sale or posted on the forums, but am reading this thread with great interest as I would love to make a go of it here. I need to be able to work around my disabled son and my sen daughter, so if I could make it work here it would be ideal, as I can’t go “out” to work and look after them. The tips here are very interesting, thankyou xxxxx
I wish I would know the answer to this I am just about to give up and leave my listings expiring, I have been on for 15 months now and didn’t have a single sale in the last 5 months, which is very disheartening. I recommend maybe adding your folksy shop to your business cards (didn’t help me at all, but it might help you Hope you will find the secret xx
The key is not giving up and to know the average new start up will run at a loss for the first 2 years.
That it takes a lot of enough, time and promotion to get found and know.
It’s all about building year on year. You can’t just dip your toe into the water and expect huge results you have to work dam hard, long hours for little to zero return at first then when you do start to take off you can’t let up.
Also don’t forget in all sales environments things come in circles what sells well for one point in the year don’t often sell well or at all at other times of the year. You need to take into considerations seasonal trends and how you are marketing and who are your biggest target market.
Hope that helps