[Hidden-tech] monetizing Wordpress

[ussailis at shaysnet.com]

I deleted past emails, so I hope this gets to the right person...

I just checked with my daughter. She is a competent photographer & has sold
some. She is into still life, mostly.

Her comment of the whole web thing is in essence, 'forgetaboutit.' There
are too many sites out there that cost and don't deliver much. You can be
into one site, perhaps paying a fee and see nothing for a long time. I
think one that she mentioned is FineArtAmerica (probably .com). 

Her suggestion is go around to the galleries in the local area. They will
give advice on what to charge, and perhaps where to go. 

Yes, we live in a wondrous place for art. Galleries abound.

I also know that some of the local fairs have booths (often share-a-booth
if you have a buddy or two). Even one of my grandchildren has sold stuff &
made a profit at the Ashfield Fair.


Jim Ussailis

Original email:
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From: Bruce Hooke bghooke at att.net
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:54:30 -0500
To: tech at nottooloud.com, hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] monetizing Wordpress





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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