Sorry- I’ve got to say all my friends have only been supportive. Even those on Facebook who I don’t actually ever really see- old school friends for example- always surprise me & like things I post.
I’ve never had any negatives because of it in my ‘real’ life, I just find people are really supportive. In fact, the more successful my artwork became the more friends I had wanting to buy pieces.
I don’t share my business posts on to my private wall though. So only friends who’ve actually gone out of their way to follow my business page separately see what I put on there.
Sorry to hear you’ve had such a negative experience. But, personally if people were going to be that childish about it I’d rather not have them as friends anyway. No real friend takes joy out of someone failing & being miserable. That’s awful and incredibly false of them. :-/ I know where I’d tell them to go. Haha
Hi Dottie , have just found British crafters thank you . How do I post my makes ? Do I copy from my page and paste on there page ( write something space ) I am really not sure . Thanks for your help . Suzanne. X
Yes, like @curiousseagull my friends seem ok about me crafting. I have a lot of ‘friends in my computer’ that I have never met in real life, and they often purchase items which is nice. I do try and keep my personal page and my business page separate, but of course there is overlap, and lots of customers enjoy a bit of random conversation as well as business posts. This describes my instagram really, it’s a mix of cute family outings and burned wood. but I think instagram is nice like that.
Hi sam…i know what you mean, hardly anybody interacts with me at all and i do what i can to interact with people…some are totally ignorant on facebook but expect you to comment etc for there items its sole distroying sometimes but i keep going, its like i have 2 heads or they have been warned off me for some reason even my family dont interact who are on facebook… i dont make friends easily neither so i sympathize with you
Don’t be sorry! I would have expected a bit more friendliness about it too, which was why I mentioned it. The fact that she was asking me how it was going shows that I don’t share my posts to my homepage and she hadn’t visited my jewellery page for a while. I’m glad you have had good experiences and I can therefore hope that things will get better again if I meet some more people!
To be honest- I’d say with people like that, the problem is all theirs. I feel like anyone who can’t be supportive of someone’s success is just suffering with jealousy, and unfortunately social media is a sure fire way to bring those people out of the woodwork.
Just make sure it doesn’t put you off!
I like to think that we are a team. The reason that we have managed to survive the FB changes where they are stingy in what they show is by keeping the interaction up on our page. Whilst some people pay for promotion (and it works really well as you get promo on Twitter, Instagram & Pinterest as well as FB) other people work with us and if people are sharing, commenting & liking we try to share them regularly to the page.
So that way they get their design see by 20K plus people potentially. So really a bit of you scratch our back & we will scratch yours.
same here… I was wondering that lol, I have a Pinterestpage but am not quite sure how to promote and sell on there although I do love it as an image site.
Hi @dottiedesigns sorry for the late response, it completely slipped my mind. Thank you so much for posting one of my cards, that was generous of you. I will keep in mind everything that you said and thank you so much for explaining. Many blessings. Julieann
On Friday I got so bored and frustrated trying to promote my shop to no avail that I actually paid £4 for a Facebook ad, sat back and waited for the sales to roll in.
Not a sausage…
even my family dont interact who are on facebook… i dont make friends easily neither so i sympathize with you
