[Hidden-tech] monetizing Wordpress

Bruce Hooke bghooke at att.net
Tue Jan 6 16:54:30 EST 2015


It seems to me that "pay what you like" changes everything as I'd think it
would be pretty hard to find a stock ecommerce solution that will allow the
buyer to set the price. 

This may be another reason to look at Annamarie's solution, or a variation
on that which would be to add a generic PayPal "donation" button and just
tell people to specify which day's drawing they want to buy (or they could
just make a donation without buying a drawing). If we're talking about sales
of one or two drawings a month it's not worth putting a lot of work into the
system, or much money, and it's easy enough to handle making manual updates
to say that a given drawing has been sold.

The part about scanning and printing at Pivot fits with what I said: it's
not cheap in either time or money to create good reproductions.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net
[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Dan
Richardson (t)
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 3:56 PM
To: 'Hidden-Tech Tech'
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] monetizing Wordpress




On 1/6/15 3:13 PM, Bruce Hooke wrote:
> Each new drawing will be a single, unique "product,"
> which will need to have some sort of name or ID so when an order comes 
> in she knows which drawing has been ordered.

Each one is named by the date it was drawn, so that part's easy.

> And it sounded like there
> might be some variation in price too from one drawing to the next, 
> again requiring that each drawing be uniquely identified in the system.

She's thinking "pay what you like" w/ a $20 or so minimum, so, still easy.

> As an artist I can quite understand not wanting to get into printing 
> multiples. It's far from easy or cheap to accurately reproduce a work 
> of art, especially at larger than letter size. It takes quite a bit of 
> work

She's had some of them scanned and printed at Pivot. They do beautiful work,
and she thinks their prints look better than her originals. 
Unfortunately, that costs her way more than she wants to sell them for. 
Affordability, accessibility, and just getting them out there are at the top
of her list of goals. I think she'd be happy to sell one a month.

Dan
_______________________________________________
Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net
Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net

You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list.
If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members   
page on the Hidden Tech Web site.
http://www.hidden-tech.net/members
-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8878 - Release Date: 01/06/15



Google

More information about the Hidden-discuss mailing list