Comments on: Bad Publicity http://roomyverse.com/?p=6973 is kneading his guts again. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:24:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Evan N. http://roomyverse.com/?p=6973&cpage=1#comment-2652 Evan N. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:35:51 +0000 http://roomyverse.com/?p=6973#comment-2652 Haha, my lame sense of humor actually paid off. And sense I just finished a sentence with a prepositions, I choose the Grammar Nazis. Thanks for the contest. I am inspired to have a contest myself. Maybe a kiriban. BTW I feel badly for Joe's Hardware Haha, my lame sense of humor actually paid off. And sense I just finished a sentence with a prepositions, I choose the Grammar Nazis. Thanks for the contest. I am inspired to have a contest myself. Maybe a kiriban.

BTW I feel badly for Joe’s Hardware

]]> By: Roy Blumenthal http://roomyverse.com/?p=6973&cpage=1#comment-2651 Roy Blumenthal Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:40:18 +0000 http://roomyverse.com/?p=6973#comment-2651 @evan: Congrats Evan! I didn't know anyone could pun worse than me! @DJBogTrotter: Re selling prints via your site... Hmm... The holy fricking grail! There's a WordPress free ecommerce plugin that allows you to turn selected pages into active shop pages. So basically, what I'd do in your shoes is... 1. Get the plugin. (I *think* it's called WP-ecommerce plugin. It's from a New Zealand-based company.) 2. Set up a price for each page that contains a cartoon. 3. Get yourself some sort of payment account to allow you to receive money. If you've got access to PayPal, you're a winner! (I'm in South Africa, and PayPal doesn't allow me to receive payments here. Blah.) 4. Work out a consistent workflow once you receive an order. You need to be able to action it *fast*! *Every time*. The closer you're able to come to a 'Standard Operating Procedure' (SOP), the better poised you'll be to scale this into a business later on if it proves immeasureably successful. Start with the end in mind... What *should* happen if you find that you're getting ten or fifteen orders a day? How should you be printing? How do you get the pics to the printer? How do you get them back? How do you ship? Do you have a covering letter? Do you have stationery? A publicity pack? Mailmerge personalisation? 5. You've got to be *certain* you're not being defrauded before you release a print. There are gangs who place a small order, then follow it up with a moderately sized order, and then a third massive order. All three being fraudulent, the first two of which are simply a test to see what sort of defenses your site has. Hope this helps! Blue skies Roy @evan:
Congrats Evan! I didn’t know anyone could pun worse than me!

@DJBogTrotter:
Re selling prints via your site… Hmm… The holy fricking grail! There’s a WordPress free ecommerce plugin that allows you to turn selected pages into active shop pages. So basically, what I’d do in your shoes is…

1. Get the plugin. (I *think* it’s called WP-ecommerce plugin. It’s from a New Zealand-based company.)

2. Set up a price for each page that contains a cartoon.

3. Get yourself some sort of payment account to allow you to receive money. If you’ve got access to PayPal, you’re a winner! (I’m in South Africa, and PayPal doesn’t allow me to receive payments here. Blah.)

4. Work out a consistent workflow once you receive an order. You need to be able to action it *fast*! *Every time*. The closer you’re able to come to a ‘Standard Operating Procedure’ (SOP), the better poised you’ll be to scale this into a business later on if it proves immeasureably successful.

Start with the end in mind… What *should* happen if you find that you’re getting ten or fifteen orders a day? How should you be printing? How do you get the pics to the printer? How do you get them back? How do you ship? Do you have a covering letter? Do you have stationery? A publicity pack? Mailmerge personalisation?

5. You’ve got to be *certain* you’re not being defrauded before you release a print. There are gangs who place a small order, then follow it up with a moderately sized order, and then a third massive order. All three being fraudulent, the first two of which are simply a test to see what sort of defenses your site has.

Hope this helps!

Blue skies
Roy

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