Hi Joy, I just clicked the links on my Folksy page and they do work… but… I can’t find how to delete the things!! haha
How odd, they really didn’t work when I clicked them before, but do now so that’s fine.
Now I find it useful to have those links there on my page as I use them myself. Quickest way to get myself into my Twitter account and to any of my social media accounts for that matter.
I don’t think you use your Facebook page much do you ? whereas I post on mine every day and do get lots of sales from there.
Must say I have never noticed that I’ve lost a sale because someone has clicked and followed one of my links as I get an awful lot of traffic to my shop directly from social media. I’m happy for people to visit it as well as my shop here, as my social media is not all about my glass and selling, as I think that would in time prove a bit boring, if not pushy tmm, to my customers, so I like to have posts which might also amuse, entertain to keep my social media audience happy. I posted an arty motivational thingy today and it has a reach of 883. Nothing to do with glass.
Works for me.
PS was just discussing your thoughts about it taking someone away from your shop once they are in it, with my marketing daughter and yes she agrees with you.in that… Worth though considering that here on Folksy the social media links are right at the very bottom of my shop and a customer has to scroll right down past all my goodies on offer to get there. Hopefully they will see something they fancy buying on the way to the bottom. 
PPS Correction… as the links open as a New Window leaving the original shop window open it doesn’t take the customer away from the shop at all but might encourage them to follow the shop on social media… which is a good thing.
Michelle, apologies I confused myself. Easily done 
It’s not the FB /IG links which don’t work but the links to your own shop / website on both your social media sites. They are all giving me an error message about domain not connected to a website.
Never mind I can see your lovely things in your shop here. 
PS I need another baby granddaughter so she can wear this beauty https://folksy.com/items/7284227-Patchwork-babygrow-with-matching-hat-12-Months
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Hi, Michelle. I just opened my shop yesterday. I’m really not sure what to expect! I have been a seller on Etsy for 3 years, but things have slowed down to a near stop, so I’m trying new things. I wish you well, and I hope we start seeing positive results soon. xo
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Welcome Deborah. I’ve seen your lovely pictures.
You’ll find lots of friendly and helpful advice here in the forum.
One thing to note is that it is always recommended that you promote your shop here so customers know you are here. This is more important than you will be used to on E*** (Folksy forum convention is that we don’t mention the other selling sites directly
Social media is great and others recommend joining in with the promotion posts on here but they of course will attract a more restricted audience.
Best of luck xxx
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Me too I am an Etsy deflector, sales almost stopped on Etsy, I saw about Folksy on a Facebook help group and decided to give it a go, its like Etsy was 10 years ago…! and I had my first sale within 48 hours of opening… so heres to good and positive things to come with Folksy…
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Hi Joy, why thank you kindly. It is very cute. Michelle x
Hi Deborah really lovely illustrations. A talented lady. best wishes Michelle
Hi Joy, sorry for the delay in replying - I’ve been working on other things. Yes you’re right I don’t really work the FB pages - more groups as I’ve found I get a much bigger response in a huge group that has maybe 60-70K people - especially my knitting patterns. On my clothing FB page, I’ve had to pay for a lot of the ‘likes’ but ‘likes’ don’t seem to convert to sales. I was quite active on it early on but tbh it bores me silly. I also use Instagram with several accounts and find it easier to use. FB are a clever bunch … even with a business page, your post won’t really get seen in the algorithms and most people nowadays press ‘like’ but turn notifications off which means they’ll never see a post. You are right though that posts very loosely associated get FB attention and especially video - FB loves video and photos.
on your PPS, you like many are computer literate to open new windows - many aren’t and I think the mantra is we have to ‘think like our customer would’.
I’ve actually decided not to continue with the full-on membership on F - I’ll still retain the store front and pay per new listing but when I hear about so many people saying they’ve never heard of ‘E’ then the % that have never heard of Folksy must be even bigger. I’ve just opened on AH so will see what happens there as well. best wishes Michelle
Thank you, Michelle!!
Buying FB likes had been prioven to be 100% counterproductive.
If your likers are genuine then, say, 10% will be shown your initial posts and that 10% are already interested in you. They will comment on, like your posts and your post reach will increase accordingly .
If you say triple your likers by buying the likes then that 2/3rds of people shown your posts will not be interested in you and will never respond to your post and your post reach will not then increase accordingly.
Unfortunately Joy buying likes is the only way of growing a Facebook page and when I say buying likes, I don’t mean buying ‘bot’ likes, I mean paying for advertising, fb reach to people interested in the product you are offering, getting them to click on a shop link or website if thats what you are promoting. Same for Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter. Facebook operates on a profit basis and want you to pay to advertise to reach people. I didn’t mean buying the type of false ‘computer generated’ likes.
I’m glad you have clarified that. You did say you had been paying for likes which is entirely different from paying for promotion which I am sure many of us with reasonably successful FB pages do sometimes.