Posts Tagged ‘e-commerce’

Roundbottom Foundation Memberships Now Available

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

The kits are ready to go.  Head over to the Foundation page to learn more.  They include every­thing I men­tioned before:  8“x10” print, selected from one of four, a let­ter of thanks,  and a  per­son­ally addressed mem­ber­ship card in a wax-​​sealed enve­lope.  The let­ter includes a pass­word to get you into the Members Only area of the site, which has behind-​​the-​​scenes tuto­ri­als, essays, record­ings, and more.The cost?  Only $35.

An offi­cial announce­ment will go on the Clockpunk site with this week’s pod­cast episode, but I’m mak­ing a spe­cial announce­ment here to my friends.  Who will be mem­ber #00001?

Limited edi­tion prints of all other images are going on sale this week as well.   Prints will be 16“x20”, lim­ited to edi­tions of 10, and will cost $125.  These prints include a free mem­ber­ship.   So stay tuned for an announce­ment for how you can order those if you so desire.

The Roundbottom Foundation mem­ber­ship makes a great hol­i­day gift for the steam­punk fam­ily mem­ber!  Buy a cou­ple of dozen and your whole fam­ily will be set.  It’s the gift that keeps on giv­ing all year long!

Which E-​​Commerce Method?

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

I need some advice from those of you who have sold things online.  I have a cou­ple of dif­fer­ent routes here and I’m not sure which one is best.

First of all– the mem­ber­ship kits are ready to start going out the door.  They will start sell­ing on Monday if not sooner.  The only ques­tion is, which method should I use to sell them?

I have two options I’m look­ing at.  One is that I use an Etsy account and pass peo­ple inter­ested in buy­ing a mem­ber­ship over to the Etsy web­site.  The fees look okay.  One thing I don’t under­stand though is that Etsy charges you by the count for the things you list.  But it looks like every­one just lists a quan­tity of one.  ANy expe­ri­enced Etsy sell­ers that can explain to me why peo­ple do that?  For the mem­ber­ship kit, do I just list it with a quan­tity of one, then, what, relist each time some­one buys it?  Not clear from the FAQ how that works.

The other alter­na­tive is to use Paypal Payments and cre­ate but­tons on the site.  You can use Paypal Payments to col­lect pay­ments via Paypal or credit cards.  Fees look roughly the same as Etsy.  The down­side here is that Etsy would pos­si­bly get me extra sales from peo­ple just brows­ing Etsy.

And then maybe there are options out there I’m not even aware of.  So, poten­tial buy­ers, fel­low merchants–what’s the best way for me to do this?  I’m hop­ing to have some­thing set up by Sunday night, so please let me know your opinion.