I sell original artwork, prints, and greetings cards. Last month I put a significant amount of work into my listings for Originals and Prints. I re-took photos, especially the ones from my first weeks on Folksy, which didn’t do my work any justice. I took on board all the excellent advice here on the forums about how to write descriptions, and got my creative writing hat on. And I checked I was using all my tags.
The result - a sudden rush of sales of greetings cards, none of which I had touched!
I’m guessing that improving my other listings has brought more visitors to the shop and though they didn’t want to spend money on a larger purchase, they still liked my sort of work enough to buy a card. Hopefully they will all be back later in the year to buy original art for Christmas presents.
Well done…great news to see all the hard work does pay off.
I re-took all of my photos a couple of months back and my shop does look a lot better, they were all on a brick wall background and altough I loved it some of the items didn’t stand out, I now have them against white and it does look much neater.
I try with tags and descriptions and think they are ok!
Your our outdoor photos really make your cards stand out. I would like to take more of my photos outside but I don’t really have anywhere at home. I may have to think outside the box (house) .