[Hidden-tech] monetizing Wordpress

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:58:06 -0500 Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:

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> Hi, Dan,
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> I'm not sure some of the responses demonstrate a full understanding of the
> situation. Hoping that my pointing this out will get you more useful
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> The problem is in selling originals. I am not sure how you set it up so
> that no product can be ordered more than once, without a lot of work
> manually entering the name of the piece or the date it was published, and
> then setting the quantity available to just one would mean a lot of dead
> space on the cart as things are purchased and removed from availability.

This is where PayPal with IPN in use: when an item is purchased, PayPal does a 
'call back' to the IPN URL.  This URL can be engineered to make the necessary 
changes: eg removing the PayPal button and replacing it with a 'Sold' 
'button'.

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> Have never used Etsy or Shopify, but from what I know, the same problem
> would apply.
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> Is there a reason she wouldn't want to be able to print more copies?
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> BTW, I am a fan of Kate's art and keep her Facebook page up on my desktop
> computer. I usually visit at least 2-3x/week, though these days, I'm using
> my laptop more, and the laptop doesn't do as well with a bazillion browser
> tabs open.
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> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Dan Richardson (t) <tech at nottooloud.com>
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> > My wife is an artist. She has a long standing daily practice of doing a
> > drawing and posting it online at https://eyespider.wordpress.com/. She's
> > looking for a simple way to make it possible for people to buy the
> > originals or to contribute to help defray her expenses. She's not
> > interested in doing prints, and wants to make the originals cheap, $20
> > and up. She's looking for the easiest system, both for her and her
> > viewers. Doesn't have to be on Wordpress, but she's happy enough there
> > otherwise. Click a button by a picture, takes you to an address form and
> > maybe a PayPal link, and also marks that picture as sold. Something like
> > that.
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> > Any suggestions?
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