[Hidden-tech] monetizing Wordpress

[Tim Boudreau]

Pay what you like sounds like a job for eBay.

-Tim

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Bruce Hooke <bghooke at att.net> wrote:

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> 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
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> 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
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