Hi, I have just opened my shop 2CraftyCranes. I have only one item at the moment but will be adding more soon.
If all you experts get a moment can you please have a look and see where I have gone wrong with the layout. Any help and suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks Kev
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Hi Kevin,
Welcome to Folksy Family!
I can see your shop is in progress, all details are there. So I cannot comment or suggest anything further. Maybe fill in the about section in your shop.
Participate in Talk Folksy and the FB pages and hopefully you get some sales.
This is a good link if you just startingā¦
All the best
Hello Kevin,
Welcome to folksy. I think youāve pretty much got everything covered.
I would fill in your āaboutā section. This is the place to put a little about you and what you do - people buy from people.
Look at adding more tags, you can add 15, short phrases work best, āoak chopping boardā for instance.
I see you have added sizes which is good, personally I like to add inches and centimetres as some of us are still āold schoolā 
Make yourself known about the forum by joining in and promote, promote, promote on all the social media channels you can.
Good luck with your shop 
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thanks for that I feel a bit better.
Thanks Carol I will do what you suggest. Oddly it only allows 5 tags on the first part and five on materials could this be because I am on a trial?
welcome Kevin
yes, join in the forums and chatā¦
I wouldnāt join the daily listing challenge thread yetā¦because on there , you promise to list a new item every day and you also have the challenge of visiting everyone elseās shop and liking their itemsā¦it take a lot of timeā¦and with only one item you would not be able to list a new item every dayā¦ However, if you get a lot of items in your shop, then the challenge is an excellent place to beā¦
In the mean time, there are other daily listing threads where you can just show new items without any commitmentā¦
everyone on folksy is lovely and there is always someone willing to helpā¦just shout x
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Oh, Iāve never come across that before. Maybe @folksycontent oe @kimfolksy can shed some light onto why you can only add 5 tags.
Hi and welcome to you both - everything looks really good so far in your shop (canāt wait to see more of your work) - youāll always find loads of great advice from everyone as āFolksy folkā are really friendly and helpful. It does take a little bit of time to get settled in and learn your way around but your well on the way with Talk Folksy - Good luck.
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There are 3 different places to add tags, the general tag section, material tags and colour tags.
The materials and colour sections have a limit of 5 tags, and the general tag section allows 15. However there is also a character limit of 255 characters on this, so if you had 5 really long tags with lots of words each, thereās a chance you could hit the limit before using all tags.
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Looking at @2CraftyCranes listing, heās put the tags in the right place and certainly hasnāt used all the characters so I donāt know why he can only add 5?
love the shop name and Iām sure we will see lots of great makes coming from your way soon
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Its me being a complete muppet.
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Thanks, but Its me being a complete muppet.
I hope you donāt mind me mentioning but I spotted a couple of spelling errors in the chopping board listing. I sometimes find it useful to type my descriptions in Word so that it checks my spelling and grammar. I can then get it right before copying into the little space on the Folksy dashboard.
I love the chopping board, by the way!
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Hi, thanks I have no problems with you pointing out the spelling mistakes. My only problem is I could only find one? Which one have I missed? Kev
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āSeving trayā in the item title!
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You beat me to it!
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Thank you.