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Post by leedlz on Nov 25, 2014 10:41:17 GMT -5
Thank you Rhi for your help I do have the facebook thing started. I have a pinterest item on but am not got some pins back at first. I don't want to send a lot of money on pinterest for people to take my ideas and make them on their own. I have a website now but it is not cheep and I don't know if it will pay of. I need to get the website out there and I guess I am looking for the best way to do that. Margaret
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Post by PuffyTheSlayer on Nov 25, 2014 14:49:00 GMT -5
Thank you Rhi for your help I do have the facebook thing started. I have a pinterest item on but am not got some pins back at first. I don't want to send a lot of money on pinterest for people to take my ideas and make them on their own. I have a website now but it is not cheep and I don't know if it will pay of. I need to get the website out there and I guess I am looking for the best way to do that. Margaret spend money on pinterest? its a free service... who are you paying money to if you dont mind me asking? People on pinterest always pin to DIY boards - they rarley follow through & make something; and im quite sure that making jewellery with hair is difficult/tricky and i doubt people would be able to replicate your results. im not saying they wont try, but they will probablly fail also one of the benefits of having pinterest is being able to track what other people are pinning your work & where. you do not need to have a pinterest account for people to do this, anyone can pin anything from anywhere I apriciate that you do not want to be copied and the thought of posting descriptions/photos/videos on the process may seem off putting to you; that said you do ask your customers to collect & wash the hair, which means that at some point during the process you will have to tell your customers how to do it; I think having that info available before purchase would be a huge benefit for the customer. from a customers perspective (this is worse case scenario); they find an item they like; they know how to collect hair. but they need to know - is there anything special i should be aware of while collecting my horse tail?.... the information is not easily found/available. i could contact the seller - but thats too much effort; off they go. never to be seen again how to Videos are free commercials (this is best case scenario); consider a young girl searching - how to cut my horses tail; she comes accross your video, on collecting/washing horse tail... (you can make a video yourself, you do not need to pay someone to make it) and suddenly decides she NEEDS a necklace made of pippins tail! for best results you would need to subtlety (or not so subtlety) mention your product/shop throughout the video
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Post by desertsage on Dec 7, 2014 20:33:25 GMT -5
I am mostly clueless about anything other than FB. I have biz accounts on Twitter, Pinterest, Flickr, and Google+. The one that makes the least sense to me is Google+. But the one I'd most like to become successful at is Twitter. So, any tips for that are most welcome. so i assume you know the easiest way to tweet a listing is by linking twitter to your etsy & tweeting straight from the listing the key to being seen on twitter (i have found) is to follow people who may be interested in purchasing your products. basically identify your target audience - and go follow them that's easy for me - to say! i know its trickier when you sell jewelry so try following independent & large fashion magazines; follow independent bloggers/ youtubers/ fashion centric people AGAIN ALWAYS FOLLOW BACK try to post a mix; posting your items/other etsy items will get boring for avid followers; so tweet interesting articles, things that inspire you/ your work; you tube videos; funny pages; anything that you think your followers may enjoy you should also tweet cat updates/pictures - the internet loves cats - and they are members of your shop now use the # ing for keywords so is you were posting a pic of your skull bracelet = good #'s would be #jewelry #skull #braclet #gift and seasonal #'s would be #halloween #dayofthedead try & string that into an easy to read sentence; people search twitter like they do google; so someone looking for a halloween gift - would theoretically see your tweet. I'm already running into overload problems with twitter. I CANNOT keep up on it. I'm following too many people who are way too verbose. And I feel weird dealing with a thing I can't keep up on. Is this just normal for tiwtter and okay, or should I try to follow fewer people?
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Post by desertsage on Dec 7, 2014 20:40:41 GMT -5
Okay, some Facebook stuff.
the math works out something like this:
Likes are good, active participants are better. This is why it is actually a bad idea to pay for likes. Even if you do so through Facebook's advertisingness, you will still get a lot of bots and 'fake' likes. These will be people who will not interact with your page at all.
This is important because.... well it goes back to math.
Your page is gauged for interest off of how much interaction it has. By percentage. So, if you have 1000 likes, but only 10 of them are commenting on or liking your actual posts, you have a low percentage of interaction. However, if you have 200 likes, and 20 people are commenting and liking your posts, that's a higher percentage, and you will get more visibility across the board. (Meaning for all the people who have liked your page.)
So, you only want real people to like your page. Preferably people who will interact, in one way or another, with your posts.
Additionally, recency is a HUGE thing on Facebook. If you only post something once a week or less, your visibility takes a hit. I try to post SOMETHING at least every couple days.
There's more floating around in my brain, but I can't find it right now.
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