Cafe Press etc

March 14th, 2009

I was thinking that you guys would be interested in making some money (not sure if there are any rules regarding the use of such things but I’ll assume they don’t exist), and would like to say it’s very easy to add a Merchandise/Support Us! page in which you can link out to some of the following:

  1. Cafe Press- essentially it’s an online place for your own storefront of BandSoc branded gear, there are LOADS of things you could then be selling, CafePress defines their own price and you set the selling price so you define the profit you make from any sale! The advantages here are you can supply more variety, more styles etc and keep capital low as you don’t stock anything yourselves, whilst the buyer gets their own size made on demand however they like. Sort of like a 21st century footloose industry… sort of… ok not at all much.
  2. Amazon Associates- simply a program where anything somebody buys from having visted Amazon through the site gets you 4% of their purchase… doesn’t happen often but when it does it is potentially very profitable
  3. LoveFilm- you can get approx £12 for anybody who signs up for one of the trials through this program
  4. Music store deals?

 

My point is I have set up a number of these sorts of things and they have some advantages… so it could be worth a thought.

To-Do

March 14th, 2009

Ok, new idea. Here’s a post in which if there’s ANYTHING (seriously, anything) you need doing it can be added (either as a comment or by just editting the article itself) here so that there’s a list of things that I can focus on.

 

  1. Polish up graphical touches
  2. Use script so that when people log in it redirects them to the page they logged in from
  3. Personalise the login page so that it doesn’t say “Wordpress” in huge letters
  4. Add facebook connectivity
  5. Improve the quality of the facebook plugin
  6. Change background wood effect to make it more desk-like
  7. Teach everybody the tricks to using this Wordpress system
  8. Your suggestion here!

Send me your feedback

March 8th, 2009

I’ve only spent a couple of hours on this so far (a typical site will take about 10-20 hours) so it’s in the early stages, I can admit to there being a lot of errors, but I would appreciate it if you’d send me faults you find via Facebook, that way I can get round to implementing any suggestions you make. It’s your site afterall.

 

P.S. Try clicking the controls of the MP3 player…

Welcome demoer!

March 8th, 2009

Hola,

Ok so it’s miles from complete in it’s present form but I would like feedback to start early so that I don’t do some work on a tangent.

So this page could be news and updates, users can comment on stories by logging in (with their Facebook passwords if we go live with a real system), also when you write a story (give it a try) you can add a tag so that they appear on the post-it under the MP3 navigation. That was users can easily find all posts tagged “events”, “battle of the bands” etc really easily. Oh yeah, and they can also subscribe using RSS feeds for those that know how.