Earl Brunner on thu 30 nov 00
I don't list prices on my page because I don't have a commercial page
and my service provider would charge me extra if I were to do so. Since
my page is more for Clayart people and anyone that asks "What kind of
potter do you do?" it works ok.
Ann Brink wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> I am working on our home page which will have a section for my pottery
> gallery of course and have a question: I have looked at many of your
> websites and see some of you have plainly marked prices, and others don't.
> My first inclination is to be straightforward about it and list a price,
> plus basic shipping cost. But I would really appreciate hearing the reasons
> pro and con on this. I don't think this has been discussed before.
>
> Ann Brink in CA
> e-mail annsart@impulse.net
>
> >
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Ann Brink on thu 30 nov 00
Hi friends,
I am working on our home page which will have a section for my pottery
gallery of course and have a question: I have looked at many of your
websites and see some of you have plainly marked prices, and others don't.
My first inclination is to be straightforward about it and list a price,
plus basic shipping cost. But I would really appreciate hearing the reasons
pro and con on this. I don't think this has been discussed before.
Ann Brink in CA
e-mail annsart@impulse.net
Kim Marie on fri 1 dec 00
My first inclination is to be straightforward about it and list a price,
> plus basic shipping cost.
The only cons I heard on this result from selling both retail and wholesale.
The way it was told to me is that if you list retail prices on your site,
you are in fact in competition with the wholesale buyers you wish to
attract.
Don't know if it's a tested theory but I could see that it may have that
consequence. Therefore since i'm hoping to head towards 100% wholesale, I
don't list my prices.
kim
in snowy spafford NY
Earl Brunner on fri 1 dec 00
Sometimes I hate spell check. Before any one asks,
I don't DO potters.
Earl Brunner wrote:
> I don't list prices on my page because I don't have a commercial page
> and my service provider would charge me extra if I were to do so. Since
> my page is more for Clayart people and anyone that asks "What kind of
> potter do you do?" it works ok.
>
> Ann Brink wrote:
>
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> I am working on our home page which will have a section for my pottery
>> gallery of course and have a question: I have looked at many of your
>> websites and see some of you have plainly marked prices, and others
>> don't.
>> My first inclination is to be straightforward about it and list a price,
>> plus basic shipping cost. But I would really appreciate hearing the
>> reasons
>> pro and con on this. I don't think this has been discussed before.
>>
>> Ann Brink in CA
>> e-mail annsart@impulse.net
>>
>> >>
>> ______________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>>
>> You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
>> settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>>
>> Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
>> melpots@pclink.com.
>
>
>
> --
> Earl Brunner
> http://coyote.accessnv.com/bruec
> mailto:bruec@anv.net
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________
>
> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
> You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
> settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
> Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
> melpots@pclink.com.
--
Earl Brunner
http://coyote.accessnv.com/bruec
mailto:bruec@anv.net
Gary Elfring on sat 2 dec 00
>>I am working on our home page which will have a section for my pottery
>>gallery of course and have a question: I have looked at many of your
>>websites and see some of you have plainly marked prices, and others don't.
>>My first inclination is to be straightforward about it and list a price,
>>plus basic shipping cost. But I would really appreciate hearing the reasons
>>pro and con on this. I don't think this has been discussed before.
This is a basic marketing question. Think about it this way. You get a clothing
catalog in the mail. It has beautiful pictures of all the items. You see a
sweater that looks mildly interesting, but there is no price next to it. Will
you call an 800 number to get the price? Will you call a long distance number
to get the price?
Every catalog you receive in the mail has prices, prominently posted next to
all the items in it. Every store has prices posted next to (or on) all of its
items. Customers need to know what things cost. All the big on-line stores
(and even my 3 little on-line software stores) have prices next to every item.
This increases sales- I ran little tests to check it. I offer demo versions of
all my software and recently put a "Buy-On-Line" button in the demo. When you
hit the button, a page pops up telling you the software will (with your
approval)
connect to the internet directly to our on-line web store. That increased
sales
by about 25%. When I added the product price to that little pop up window,
sales
went up by another 15%. You can see samples at:
http://www.elfring.com
http://www.barcodingfonts.com
http://www.micrfonts.com
Gary
ge@elfring.com
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