Hi everyone,
I’ve just joined Folksy and wanted to say hi.
I’d love to learn more about this platform, so if anyone has any tips or tricks for setting up their shop and creating traffic, then I’d love to hear from you?
It feels like a bit of a minefield at the minute! 
Welcome to Folksy.
I am rather puzzled. If you are a new shop (and I can see that you are from your postion in the New Sellers list) and your shop is not showing any Sold items how have you managed to have 3 reviews ?
Welcome! 
Hi, how are you finding it on Folksy?
Hi,
I’m really not sure how it works and if there’s a delay, so maybe it’s just taking a while to update.
How long have you been on Folksy?
I’ve been on Folksy since 2009. As soon as you sell something it shows in your Sold items but you are not showing any which is why I wondered what had happened. Your photos are lovely and I’m not surprised they have sold so fast .
Thanks for making me aware of this. I can see that it shows up in my bio but not my home page, so I’ve contacted support for advice.
And I’m so glad you like my photos - it’s always so scary to put yourself out there 
The Sold Items Is now showing on your shop front, that is where it always shows but it was not there yesterday. If you click it you will see the 3 things you have sold which match the 3 reviews.
I am presuming you maybe only sold them yesterday and that is why they didnt show in your Sold yesterday but had to wait for overnight processing .
They have usually shown immediately, same day for me and I often use my sold page to see what i have sold when an order email comes in but suspect that may have changed since Folksy have been doing changes to images.
Yay! I’m so glad it’s now showing and thank you for taking the time to explain how it works, I really appreciate it!
Welcome to Folksy, best of luck selling your beautiful work. x
Thank you so much @CadaBayJewellery This seems like such a friendly place to start selling.
How are you finding it on here?
I think it is a lovely place to sell. As of yet I have not got to grips with it! I only sold 2 products last year so let my listings expire and did not renew them.
I am trying to build up once again this year to give it another try. It seems such a shame to leave such a welcoming place where they are so hard to come by these days!
It is difficult to understand a lot of it as it’s not that intuitive and I’m convinced I’m getting most of it wrong.
I have no idea how you’re supposed to get people into your shop or how to boost your listing either, I’m hoping someone will help shine a light for me
And I agree completely about the welcoming atmosphere on here - it’s so lovely and people seem so supportive.
I hope people start to visit your shop too as you have some lovely items on there 
The art of getting people to you shop is promote, promote, promote.
Join in with the forums (as you are doing) we get to know you and when people are looking to purchase they’re ‘oh, I know who makes…’
Share your items anywhere you can, Facebook, Instagram, twitter, Pinterest etc. There is also a group on Facebook where you can share your items
It can be hard going at times (and things are pretty hard out there at the moment with the cost of living crisis) but everyone here is so friendly and there’s always someone to help. I’ve been here since 2012 and I still ask!
Good luck with your shops.
This does feel like a crazy time to set up a new business but I really hope I can make it work!
Thank you so much for that link, I’ve just signed up and will keep an eye out for what’s happening here too as every little helps
I’ve just realised why on Wednesday, the day of your sales, your 3 sold items were not showing. I had forgotten until a sale for me just popped in.
The Sold Items figure is only updated overnight so on the day of your sales it would still have been zero so would not show … so though your sold items would be there, there was nothing to click to see them . Glad I worked it out, it’s been bugging me
My sold item figure has not increased today but will overnight but the piece I just sold is now visible in my Sold items which as I said earlier I find really useful as I can quickly identify exactly what it is I sold and get it sent out
You ask how to get people to your shop. On Folksy it is up to you to drive people there. You’re already doing the right thing by having your Folksy link on your social media so if you are sharing a photo and there is an easy link to your shop here then people will hopefully click and buy it.
I find Pinterest is a great place to keep my pictures… I have enquiries from there for things I sold ages ago as if you Pin from your listing it adds your main photo and a direct link to your listing in the shop, even if that listing has now gone out of stock.
My own views are way down at the moment (and therefore my sales) and I am still trying to work out whybut when I look at my stats I nearly always have at least one view showing as coming via Pinterest.
Then there is your searcheabilty via Google. Make sure you are using lots of good tags to describe your pictures, hopefully the sort of words which people would use if they might be searching for something like that. It takes time to get your SEO working well . Most people don’t get any sales for at least a couple of monnths, you have to give the search engines time to find you.
xx
Thank you so much for all your advice - you have been so helpful.
I just heard back from the support team and they said that as I’m a new seller it can take a little longer for it to update and that it also won’t show the number of sales unless I sell 50 or more items. So that’s really good to know, although I can only dream of selling 50!
SEO is a whole new world for me and I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve checked the popular tags that Folksy updates on here and tried to incorporate some of those but it would be good to know how often you should change them, or how long it takes for them to trigger so you know if they’re working or not.
And I’ve never used Pintrest, so that’s an excellent shout and I’ll definitely take a look at that as well. I’ll have a go at everything at the minute to see if something might stick x
Good luck. Once people find your photos they should sell well