I sell great at craft fairs, galleris are good too, but online is becoming worse than hopeless. I spent a lot of last year updating all my tags etc on both Folksy and etsy. I did 15% off for months, I did Folksy Friday, paying for a Plus account, I did everything I could think of. But still no sales, the last one was July!
During January just gone now, I concentrated on etsy and took hours changing all the wording according to the latest instructions. No sales since September.
So, last night, after all of that and leaving Folksy well alone since before Christmas, I got a sale from there last night - yippeee!!! (but it was a sheep - itās always the sheep!) Thatās 30 sales in something like 5 years - good job selling online isnāt my main source of jewellery income!
Hi Silvana
Iāve been on Folksy for 9 months now and have sold 53 items so far - although to be fair, quite a lot of them were de-stash supplies. Like you I have a Plus Account and re-list everyday, have had (am having) sales and I promote in the threads and on Twitter. I do feel Iām doing everything but would like more reward for my efforts. If Iām honest, I can see why I struggle because of the competition from other beaded jewellery but Iām hoping for better with my bridal collection which Iām extending at the moment and is a little more distinctive. You however are very distinctive - your jewellery is unique, well made, you seem to have your tags spot on and I canāt for the life of me see why youāre not selling more - particularly the brooches which seem as a category get a disproportionate (in my opinion) amount of promotion from Folksy - so why arenāt yours, which are fab ? I noticed youāre not on Twitter, so Iāll Tweet one of your pieces - I love pigs so it has to be your super cute piggie brooch. Maybe it will help, maybe not ?
Keep battling on and hopefully your online sales will start to match your fair sales - oh and have a great weekend 
Thanks very much Karen, much appreciated ā for your comments and your tweets. I do lots of stuff with the computer and the tablet sometimes (Instagram, facebook, pinterest etc) but I really donāt do phones, so I havenāt got into that and probably wonāt. Youāve done well to have sold 53 items in 9 months and so the Plus account is working for you Iād say. Your photos are lovely by the way ā maybe the beads photo better or youāre better at it generally, but my designs have a lot of flat metal faces and that seems to be the difficult bit to get right. I also donāt re-list every day ā it will be coming to an end in June as it was an experiment (gone wrong!) so Iām going to try and do it every few days at least from now on and see if that helps. I so want to keep Folksy going, Iād much rather drop etsy but something has got to go, itās just too time-consuming.
Silvana
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Morning Silvana
Just wanted to let you know the Tweet about your lovely piggie was re-tweeted by some called Online Craft who have over 19 thousand followers and hopefully itāl get picked up more Keep on with the re-listing. I think it helps.
Thank you for the comments on my photos - itās taken my 10 years and a lot of tinkering to get the photos right, and I still have quibbles, but I think Iām just too much of a perfectionist. I also have to confess my husband is a commercial photographer and teaches product photography to bug companies like Harvey Nichols and Baylis and Harding, so I have some great kit and advice on tap - although I do have to do the photos myself and subject myself to one of his lectures 
I think your photos are good but with metal I know youāre going to have problems with reflection - itās the crystals I have problems with for the same reason - especially when theyāre together with pearls as thereās too much contrast. Keith has recently done some training at a company in Sheffield who make high end kitchen wear in stainless steel. Their big problem was reflection - Iāll get him to take a look at your photos to see if he has any advice or if youāre already doing a good job.
Follow up to the above - Keith has had a look and if you can talk me through how you set up, take and edit your photos weāll see if we can help. If you want to take it off the forum you can email me direct on
karen@northlight-images.co.uk
Just let me know here that youāve sent an email in case it doesnāt reach me or goes into spam
Thanks Karen, just sent you a direct email.
Silvana
x
I am so pleased to say that I have had my 25th sale!!! I even had a message from James and the Folksy team in Sheffield, congratulating me. I know it was an automated email, but it still made me pleased. So, my sales are rising, not going down!!!
Thanks
SallyAnn Ling