Hello fellow crafters! I’m new to Folksy and have just set up my shop Poppy Kay Designs. I’m really looking forward to sharing my love of crafting with the rest of the world and hopefully make some people smile and feel loved.
Since I am new to Folksy I would love to get some advice and guidance from you seasoned sellers on how to get visitors to my shop and of course how to encourage them to purchase my products.
If any of you would be kind and generous enough to offer some tips on getting sales I would be very grateful.
Welcome to Folksy. Take a look at the monthly list we get that gives an item with keywords each day. Join the monthly list a day challenge. Promote on FB each day.
Hello, thank you both for your replies. I am not on Facebook, but I have just created a Twitter account and I dabbled with Instagram before joining Folksy but I don’t think anyone saw my pictures.
What is the “monthly list that we get” and where can I find it please? I only joined two days ago so will this be something that gets emailed to me at the end of the month?
Hi @PoppyKayDesigns and welcome! I would recommend looking at Folksys own blogs.There is lots of information about writing descriptions, tags, taking good photos etc. (You can scroll to the bottom of the front page and click on blogs) Here’s a random one I picked for starters.
And yes, lots of folk on the forum will help you out too.Good luck!
The list is for the theme of the day, and there’s a section on the forum for all the posts about it (if you go to the main forum page, click at the top where it says “all categories” and scroll down the list to “theme of the day” at the bottom).
Folksy ask us for suggestions every month, and near the end of the month they give us the final list of themes with a tag for each day. If you look at the Folksy homepage, you’ll see the second section down is called “theme of the day” and today it’s clouds.
When we list an item on Folksy there’s a section to put tags, and any item that has “clouds” in the tags will show in that section on the front page today. As there’s only 8 spaces and a lot more cloud items, whenever you reload the page, a different random selection shows up (which means for a popular tag like “landscape” where there are over 800 items, your item might only get seen a few times over the day, but for an obscure tag like “wabi sabi” with only 15 items, your item would get seen a lot more often). So you look through the list, and if any of the themes are relevant to your item, add the tag to your listing and then it’ll have a chance of getting on the front page.
Thank you for explaining that, I was looking at the list wondering what I was supposed to do with it!
I guess that’s good for when people actually know that Folksy exists and come to the site.
I am wondering - is it the case here that people sell mostly to other sellers? I ask only because there is a certain other site where there are so few buyers that it’s pretty much just sellers selling to each other.
I haven’t sold loads yet, but so far I think I’ve sold to 3 other sellers, 5 people I know (in person or through social media) and 10 names I don’t recognise at all.
There’s certainly some selling to sellers, and if you spend a lot of time posting on this forum (particularly on the daily listing thread) that will probably increase the percentage, but there are some buyers. Not as many as the big international site, and it definitely helps if you promote your Folksy shop on social media too, but I think it’s slowly starting to get more known.
you are doing well so far because one of the secrets of success is to come on here and chat…Join in some of the games, the daily listing thread…yes that one takes time because you promise to go and like everyone’s work every day…but it does get you sales…
there are lots of threads on the forum where you can join in…it helps to get your name known…you are joining in already…so well done …that way…if someone wants a card, they will think…I KNOW someone who makes cards…and will come and find your shop. I know that if I want a necklace, there are a few people that I now know , might have what I want…we all help each other…
@PoppyKayDesigns so sorry did not complete my post. DH had an eye op a few weeks ago and had, to him, a major problem yesterday. Had to ring Opthalmology they calmed him down and settled his mind. I then promptly forgot what I was doing and went off at a tangent. Kim explained beautifully.
That is not my experience @PoppyKayDesigns. About 20% of my sales have been to fellow Folksy members or friends. The other 80% have been to people I haven’t clapped eyes on before. They have come to my Folksy shop via searching the Folksy site, via Google, through my social media promotions or by responding to my business cards.
Agreed Chris. There is after all limited audience here on Folksy compared to the big wide world out there. About 3200 active shops if the new shop feature is accurate.
Hi Brenda, no it is not a mistake. I do not want to sell to overseas buyers and I couldn’t see an option to tick to say “no international sales” so the silly postage charge is a deterrent. I have since been advised on what I have to do to stop international sales so I will be doing that going forward!
LOL…I remember when I joined folksy I didn’t understand the second and subsequent postings and put something far too high…it was only when someone queried it, I learnt what to do…
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if someone in the US bought and paid the £100…
I know years ago my mum knitted a beautiful shawl for a friend and another lady asked for one. Mum didn’t want to make it and so told her that it was £200…the woman agreed AND paid it…lol…
