Does anyone promote their store on social media sites?

I have a facebook page with a whopping 70 likes. I’d eventually like to move all my FB Marketplace listings to the page instead of my personal account, but I’m not sure how to go about making the switch other than the obvious one at a time method. I do post a couple times a week with hashtags. I don’t necessarily get sales from FB, but I do notice that my views rise on items that I post on FB, which I’m assuming bumps me up in search. These are all speculation, though.

I don’t, just not my thing.  I have a relative that does Etsy and sells almost everything via social media listings and does great with it. To each their own!

Yeah, we’re Team No Social Media. Most sellers seem to just do automatic spamming of Twitter of Facebook that seems pretty useless.

You hear about sellers that put a lot of time into social media (Instagram, Youtube) to build a brand and following. I guess in a perfect world, you just sell direct to customers with a Venmo link.

But being a social media influencer is a full time job itself. All we do is focus on finding cool stuff and listing on eBay.

I have a Facebook business page (little used) and an Instagram account (almost never used), but now that ebay has free FVFs for stuff sold through the ebay Partner Network, I’m hoping to get time to work on that.  We’ll see.

I use Instagram to promote my online stores. I’ve spent 3 years building and engaging my followers. It helps big time! I get orders all of the time on Etsy and my Shopify site from posts on Instagram. I try to not make it spammy. I try to engage people and make posts interesting and tell a story. For me it has paid off so far…

I started originally selling on Ebay, and then Etsy, and now also Depop and Shopify. I used to never get sales anywhere except on Ebay until I started heavily posting on Instagram, and now I get just as many sales on Etsy as I do on Ebay.

continued lol! So, maybe posting on social media helps more with Etsy and Shopify or if you have a store front than it does with ebay. If you’re only selling on ebay and aren’t interested in selling on any other platforms it may not help to post on social media?

I use instagram to sell my artwork directly, but I honestly don’t think it drives any business to my etsy shop selling the same art. I have a link to my etsy shop in IG, but my etsy stats show that the vast majority of people looking at my etsy listings or buying items from me find my stuff through the etsy search, not via social media. I also sell vintage stuff on ebay and in an antique mall and have dabbled a little in the social media side of that, but it feels a bit like swimming through peanut butter. The people who have big followings and sell directly through IG are hardcore influencer types.

No, no, and no. LOL

Seriously I find Facebook a bit “toxic” anymore but I keep a generic account there for local Marketplace listings. Every once in awhile I’ll post some cute animal photo or some funny meme, or some sunset photos on Instagram, that’s about it for my social media usage.

Maybe if I made handcrafted items or something…I could see a potential benefit in it then.

But I resell trash picks and thrift store/yard sale finds in a small town and the less people know about the profit you “might” make on their cast-offs or .25 thingamabobs the better. Many wouldn’t see the time spent cleaning, fixing and listing, but they will start destroying stuff before it hits the curb or overly inflate their prices because now they know you’re a “reseller”.