News and stuff related to Folksy
Hello, So we trialled the question and answer in the forums last night, as mentioned in yesterday’s blog post. We intend to provide a round up of the main points covered in the weekly Q&A’s to help people review them and see what happened (as scrolling through a forum thread can be quite time consuming). [...]
We’re looking to do some (more) qualitative research amongst artists, crafters and designers. We’re doing this to better understand some of the motivations and drivers for selling work and to understand how people choose where to sell and showcase their work. This particular piece of research will take place in Sheffield on the 9th February, where [...]
Hello, In the past few weeks we’ve taken some time out from coal-face design, development and marketing work to assess how we liaise with you, the community of designers and makers who constitute the thousands of people selling through Folksy. We currently have a few different ways in which we listen and feedback – email [...]
We’ve had a few queries recently about how search works and in particular how Folksy is indexed by Google and how Folksy on-site search works and what improvements are planned. Whilst both are about items being found by potential buyers, they are two separate questions which I’ll tackle in turn and suggest ways you can [...]
This is Winter Sampler we produced in late November. It was aimed primarily at journalists and influencers in the sector and was really well received. Here it is embedded, below (you can also get the original file too). Hope you like it. Open publication – Free publishing
We’re pleased to see that New Media Age (the UK’s leading resource for new media businesses) have reviewed Folksy. Overall it’s a positive summary of our site providing good feedback on Folksy’s features. What’s interesting for me is that content curation is the one area the reviewer believes is currently lacking and this is precisely [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered our Folksy Finds competition to curate their own featured items page around the theme “Christmas is Coming”. We had tonnes of entries to look through and it was a fun challenge to choose our winner. Some of our favourite entries were Claira Turvey‘s favourite picks, a great Christmas food themed entry from The Butlers [...]
There are a number of different ways that you can promote your work and we thought we would highlight a few to help those people new to selling their work on Folksy (and which will also hopefully act as a reminder to those who have been selling for some time). (image from Hole in My [...]
We’ve recently updated our logo as part of the site redesign project and since the launch we’ve had a few requests from Folksy sellers for blog badges. I’ve added a couple of options (in two sizes) to this post that you can use to publicise your work on Folksy. After each badge graphic there is [...]
Yippee. Free listings today from 9am until 9pm. In order that everyone can take advantage of this offer please only list one item at a time (rather than trying to do lots simultaneously). We’ve cranked up the servers so the process should be smooth, however if it does take a little longer to list it [...]