Surely a chance of being seen is better than not being there at all. It doesn’t take long to tag a few appropriate items when you have them
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I have yet to get a sale through the tag of the day…even when the word is something like flowers and I have loads of them in my shop…lol…
That said, I rarely bother with theme of the day any more.
However, stepping outside the box…it would be natural for me to tag ALL of my floral cards with the word “flower”,so , if that was the theme of the day it would show loads of my cards on the front page, so it would be impossible to limit how many showed up…it would be out of my hands.
Likewise if the theme was “santa” there would be loads of shops that would show up because they had used that word as a tag on their Christmas items… and so it would be impossible to limit how many of their items showed up.
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Perhaps the tag should be ‘theme of the day flowers’. Agree Brenda I use a lot of pink, vintage etc.
Hi Brenda, if you tagged them all floral and they are floral then that’s great and they deserve to be in the theme of the day, I also have a lot of items with flowers on. I don’t think we can limit how many show up and it probably wouldn’t be fair anyway. If the theme of the day was teddy bear the majority of my shop would show, what I meant was sometimes things are tagged and I can’t see why they would be included but often when looking closer or at the description of the item you can then see why it has that tag, it’s perhaps not always obvious.
I like the more specific tags as there are less items, some of the themes of the day such as ‘Cbristmas’ to me arn’t worth the time adding the tags if it’s not already on as there will be hundreds included and likewise I don’t think I have ever had a sale due to an item being featured whether it’s on theme of the day or in a gift guide.
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That is the point Debby. Incorrect tagging of items just to get them on the front page. Ie totd dogs, cats appear etc.
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I agree. I much prefer a more specific title, It becomes pointless if not.
Today its ‘Tree’ it would be lovely to see lots of artistic interpretations of the theme. But instead its a mish mash.
Anything that can be hung from, made from or lives in a tree is there.
The problem is with the tag. not the seller.
British trees or Winter trees perhaps would have made the theme look more relevent?
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I agree a more specific title would be better and also Lee sellers would bother if not relevant to the theme.
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It is easily resolved by folksy, they just need to date or month prefix or suffix the theme of the day, i.e. Trees November 2024. I have suggested this before, but the argument against it was that for those shops that naturally fall into the theme, they would then have to go and change their tags to be included. So if the theme was Stained Glass, then most if not all products in stained-glass shops would automatically be included. If the Theme was changed to Stained Glass December 2024, then those shops would have to purposefully add the tag to the items that they want included. Swings and roundabouts, but in all honesty it is just a distraction from the real problem, which is absolutely dire sales on Folksy this year.
Do not join the tote as cannot be asked, lol.
I agree with you, I was thinking along the lines of TTODtrees for the tag, instead of trees for example. Or TOTDstainedglass for example.
Surely the whole point is that you deliberatly tag your item ready for TOTD, in order to opt in, rather than in “accidently” apppears there because it just happens to have the relevant word amongst its tags/materials/colours? (as in your stained glass example) You may have put the word in one of those in order to try and catch any bizarre or random searches, with no intention of it appearing on TOTD, but then it does, without you knowing , and everyone is saying "what is that doing there ", and IF TOTD was to be checked by Folksy, having it removed and a black mark against you.
I would prefer to see TOTD, as we have said, with very specific tags (eg TOTDtrees) so that every item is one that the seller has specifically chosen to go there, and a quick glance down the list by Folksy each morning would weed out anyone misusing it and tagging irrelevant items.
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I do tend to agree with Folksy in that for those of us with 40 listings it would be fine but for those shops with 100 listings it would be a mammoth task adding new tags to items they are already clearly eligible to include. If I had a shop with 100 items of stained glass and had to change every tag individually I wouldn’t bother joining in as I wouldn’t have the time, the only shops that would retag are those with a handful of items so it wouldn’t be fair on the more established or larger shops.
I think the system is fine as long as sellers only tag relevant items (I know sometimes there can be incorrect ones due to copying listings which arn’t intentional)
If we had bulk editing to the tags it would work though.
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The whole point of the theme of the day, is to get exposure for your items, if they are relevant. I think yesterday’s epic stocking fillers theme, with 6,300+ items, proved that generic themes are pointless if there is no limit on how many items a shop can include.
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I think having a TOTD prefix would be good, plus I would limit it to only only one item tagged per seller. That way:
- no one would feel compelled to change lots of tags if all their items are relevant - they just choose their very best one and tag it
- the overall ‘look’ of the selection would be better, as it’s just the creme de la creme (i.e. each shop’s most photographically appealing item, plus no incidental items to detract), no seller clumping, and the overall number of items would be reduced (so easier for Folksy to police if people are inappropriately tagging). All this would make the feature more compelling and user-friendly for buyers.
(I presume most buyers are like me and would always look at the other items in a seller’s shop if they see something they like, so any other relevant items would get seen anyway!)
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That would work if it was only 1 item per shop with a prefix tag as sellers wouldn’t need to spend a long time editing tags.
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Or a maximum of, say, three or four.
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Completely agree. That approach feels like a no brainer and if a shop’s one item sells out, they can just add the prefix to another item to take it’s place.
Like you, I always look around a shop when an item catches my eye.
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I agree, much better for the buyer to see one lovely item and then visit the shop than be put off by having to scroll through multiples from the same shop. I give up so I’m sure others do. It’s buyers that need attracting and this would make browsing more enjoyable.
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Gets my vote @Eiderglass , much wider choice for the viewer, I often look at a sellers other items if something catches my eye, plus you will have fewer pages to look through as apposed to yesterdays offering (stocking filler) over 105 pages the last time I checked
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We have talked about only including 1 (or a few) item from each seller before. It seems logical, and would work ok for a shop like mine that has a wide range of products - I can usually find at least 5 or 6 TOTD each month, and tend to have 2-3 items each time that are suitable for tagging. But it can be unfair on more niche shops. Say someone only makes candles without images, there are very limited options for them to join in specific TOTD, such as Trees, or Woodland Animals. They may be ok with terms like Sunset or Self Care, as these could be loosely interpreted, but essentially for most of the month, they miss out. But if there is a theme called Warm, or Light, or Wax, it would then only seem fair they get to showcase a lot of their items. Limiting them to just a few items, or requiring them to manually tag multiple items just for 1 day would be punitive.
Occasionally there is a theme that is so broad it includes whole swathes of items from many sellers - either by design (deliberate tagging for TOTD) or coincidence (incidental tagging). But one as big as Stocking Filler doesn’t happen that often, and most of the time it works well.
Maybe the easiest way is for the Folksy team to consider any theme tags they think might be overly popular, and treat it like the Tag1 favorite they do each month. But leave the rest as they are.
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I had the tag stocking filler for months before I even knew there was going to be one for the theme of the day. I also had no idea there was a price limit on the stocking fillers.
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