Hey how come I am already no getting much views. Its very bizarre.
Are you using Google analytics to see how many views youāre getting?
I wouldnāt worry too much about getting lots of views, itās sales you want, not views!
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Views do vary up and down even when you are regularly promoting in as many places as possible.
What you need to see is overall trends
Where are you promoting and how often do you promote?
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My views have been pretty good this week. My % has always been in the green on Shop Views. Iām surprised though giving what I have in my shop, I only have 2 items in there. Plus I havenāt been promoting my shop either.
Because its not a very popular site. More advertising is needed to get more Google views. We are our own advertisers here. I have recently opened elsewhere and because they have a very active support team, my views are really high. Its early days and only time will tell, but getting the plus account was a mistake! I am at a place where we all get a look in and not the favoured few!
I only opened in January but read as much advice as possible, was getting disheartened but joined in twitter, a totally new experience for me and yesterday I had my first sale:) and my second:) and today my third:)
I also got a tweet, my swan embroidery āfavouriteā by Amy Butler! So twitter here I come
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Iād disagree that itās not a very popular site. There are many shops here that have sold hundreds of items, but it does take a lot of work on the sellers part in promotion etc. The upside of Folksy is that itās relatively inexpensive to list, the ādownsideā is that itās too small to do much promotion for you. It all depends how much work youāre prepared to put in and whether thereās a market out there for your items.
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Iāve never seen your shop before, I love your items, especially your purses!
Are you on Facebook? Iād follow you if you wereā¦
I agree with you Louis, the more you work at promoting, the more likely you sell, although having said that , I am still waiting for my first sale on folksy, Iām on etsy, twitter, pinterest, FB, google + and a few other sites, I have sold 5 items on etsy, so I am trying my best to sell, it does encourage me when I have nice comments about my work, if anyone has some good advice in ways to sell, it is always welcome to take it, thatās how we learn
have a good day everyone
Sue
Thatās the one bit of social media that Iām not using! However you can follow me on Pinterest or Twitter. If you like my purses you might like my blog as it will have tutorials and patterns. Well thatās the plan.
So pleased you like the shop.
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Hi SoSewMegan I have put you on pinterest, FB, Twit
sue
Thanks, Sue. Thatās brilliant . 
Sue I have noticed some of your photoās are a bit blurry and youāve not used all 5 photos slots.
Try showing the back side of your brooches as well.
You have one listing showing two photoās of two different brooches. It was very confusing and it wasnāt until I read the description I noticed you were selling both together. I would suggest putting them side by side so you photograph them together and also take photoās of their backs. In fact looking at it again itās even more confusing for a potential customers as you have in the title a price for each brooch. If you are selling them together the customer needs to see the complete price.
I also find it hard to read as you have no real punctuation in your descriptions.
Itās not just about listing and promoting itās about presenting your listing in a way that itās easy for the buyer to see what they are buying both in photosā and in descriptions. Remember potential customers can only go by what we write and show. Potential customers can do pick up your items and examine them like they can in a Bricks and Mortar Shop.
Hope that helps
Hi Eileen Thanks so much for all your advice, you are absolutely right, I am going to sort the brooches out and have a good look at my shop and improve on the photography, spelling etc, I suffer with dyslexia of the worst kind and spelling does not go well with me and takes ages to write up about my items but I must sort it if I want people buy from my shop, I really appreciate your help thatās kind of you.
have a nice evening
Sue
Well I have been on folksy now few months still no sales but i know there is a market for my stuff. All my stuff I hand paint and also handmake. I havnt uploaded anymore items as yet cos its the affordability and with no sales I am seeing myself going to have to leave folksy 
sad really cos I think its great but certainly not been great on my behalf.
Folksy isnāt well enough know for you to just set up shop and expect people to stumble across it - you need to promote it. The links in your shop to a facebook page and pinterest donāt work and your twitter feed looks like you just plug your weebly shop. Have you correctly listed your t-shirts on the site? I was having a look through to see how your t-shirts compared to the others in the t-shirt section and I couldnāt find them so I suspect that you have put them in another category which is perhaps not the one that people look in for your type of product. I was looking in clothing and accessories/clothing and shoes/ t-shirts which seemed logical to me.
In my first year on folksy my sales were slow and mostly to friends/ family however in my second year it has been much better with all the promotion and business cards Iāve handed out starting to pay off but it is taking time and effort.
Sasha
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Oh dear think you might want to do a little research on Trademark infringement in connection to the images on the T-shirts.
You T-shirts are also listed under wedding which I would think is the wrong category.
We have tags again which need to be used
You donāt mention what your material are
what length are you wool hair extensions?
Think about what a potential customer would type into a search bar when looking for an item.
It looks like you have them laid on a mat/floor rug. No matter how clean that might be it would put many people off. Try placing things on a clean washed plain sheet rather than on the floor.
Are you selling one strand or do them come in say a pack of 5 strands? Itās very unclear just what a person would get would they get the whole bunch shown in the photo?
Try to use all your photo slots a photo of one individual hair extension strand would be useful.
Are they wool yarn or are they acrylic yarn?
You really need to work on your photos
What paints are you using, are they fabric paints and have you cured them by ironing them after they have dried? These are questions I would ask as a buyer also washing instructions on how to care for the hand painted item?
Are you promoting your items via as many social media sites as possible? Are you promoting via word of mouth, business cards/fliers etc?
How often do you promote?
Have you joined in any of the promoting threads in the Showcase part of the forum?
Hope this helps
i have promoted it. i have used the hash tag folksy and have used the facebook page. And my facebook has been working. i promote every single day and do everything i can to build my business. i dont just set up a shop and expect it. i have catorgrised them correctly as some are shirts and the other category is shirts. I have also put them in t shirts and clothing. I also promote myself in other places i dont just sit on a computer to await. I have done a princes trust course and had help to build up. I was only asking. as far as twitter i didnt know all these were able to be linked to folksy cos i have been here some time but wasnt aware of any of the attachments. thankyou again for your advise i will look into some of the things you said but i certainly aint not promoting its what i wake up to and do every day.