MyFolks’ Business
Be there at the right moment.
People come to MyFolks to talk through everyday problems — a leaking pipe, a dying houseplant, a strange engine noise, a wedding to plan. Mid-conversation, they realise they need a real person or service.
That is the moment your business appears.
A Folk can work out what is wrong. It cannot turn a wrench or build the site. It points at someone who can — it does not replace them, it partners.
No bidding. No auctions. A match is not for sale.
A bigger budget cannot make you relevant to a conversation you do not fit.
- Whether you match is not for sale. Your business category, your keywords and location decide it. There is no other way that makes a Folk bring you up in a conversation you do not belong in.
- You can change the order. A promoted listing is picked first when more than three businesses match the same message, and sits above unpromoted ones in a reader’s list, marked as Sponsored.
- One fixed price, the same for everyone. No bidding wars, no keyword auctions, no per-click charge. A competitor with more money pays the same per recommendation as you do.
- You pay for what actually happened. A recommendation is spent when your listing is put in front of someone, not when a Folk mentions your trade and not when a page loads. Somebody who has already seen you does not cost you a second one.
- At most three businesses per message, so a match is worth something.
- One introduction per person. It is one honest introduction either way, never a campaign that follows the user — but you stay in their recommended list for future reference.
- We never sell conversations or user data. To anyone, for anything.
What actually reaches you — and what does not
Report. We give you a recommendation log — the time, and the other information around each match — so you can tune your business and your keywords for better results.
No leads. Nothing about the person is passed to you: not their name, not their message. Your listing is shown to them, and it is entirely their decision whether to get in touch using the contact details you published. Anyone who contacts you chose to.
Getting listed
- Sign in and register your business Registration comes with a minimum of twenty recommendations.
- Your listing gets a page of its own At a link you can share with anyone who has a MyFolks account.
- Your listing goes live when you file it It starts matching straight away.
- You see where it matched Which of your keywords fired, which Folk was being talked to, the region, and what the person did with it.
- When the recommendation counter runs out, it pauses The listing stays public and reachable and simply stops being put in front of anyone. Add more whenever you want; they do not expire on a clock.
Build your business Folk!
A listing puts you in other people’s conversations. The other direction is a Folk that belongs to you — set up with your services, your hours and how you do things, and which only ever surfaces your business, never a competitor’s.