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Do you sell items on your site?
Written By Tyme on Sep. 10, 2006.
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I read this morning James' (Leihu) limited edition T-shirt offer is about to expire, 9rules sold out of the pins, and other 9rulers had/have stores. If you have a site do you sell things with it? Was/is it successful? Do you have tips for those who might be interested in doing it? What would you buy and what's the most you'd spend for it?
With my move coming up, I haven't been purchasing much of anything. The thought of one more thing to pack....
chris
Written Sep. 10, 2006 / Report /
I may be getting into the product selling business... Any tips would definitely be welcome. For me, the biggest headache is getting a decent shopping cart system set up. (And yeah, I know all about Shopify, damnit! haha)
jdrohn74
Written Nov. 18, 2006 / Report /
There are some cool plugins for wordpress if that is your platform of choice. Also check out zencart for an all purpose open source application. If you would like others, I will dig out a resource list for you, thats just all I can remember now :0)
If you are going to sell stuff on your site, just keep in mind, "what value am I adding for my reader/customer/etc." Why will they want to buy your stuff? Personally, I like T-shirts and things that sponsor sites. Something a bit out of the ordinary, but cool nonetheless.
seanrox
Written Nov. 18, 2006 / Report /
Once in a while I've sold things via my site but I don't run a full blown shop. That's not the purpose of my current site.
If I have something to sell, I'll just do a post with a picture and details of what I have to sell and ask for people to contact me if they're interested.
I've had a lot of success selling things via craigslist and ebay over the years and just put a link on my site in a post to the auction or ad.
I do have some shirts that I've designed recently and some stickers which I plan on selling via my site but again, it won't be a main feature.