Antoinette Badenhorst on sun 15 feb 04
BJ, also what is a decent price to pay for a web designer.
And.....how much will have to come from the potter's preparation and how
much can one leave over to the web designer?
Antoinette Badenhorst
105 Westwood Circle
Saltillo MS
38866
662 869 1651
www.clayandcanvas.com
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From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of BJ Clark
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 3:53 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Website/internet sales.
To answer this question, you need to ask how much you want to put into
internet sales? What percentage of your sales do you want to do over
the net? If you just want to sell a few coffee cups via your website,
I'd go with the do it yourself (or your husband) and pay pal. However,
if you want your wholesale customers to buy from your site and you want
to do a major (50%+) percentage of your sales via the internet, then
you need to put capital into it and hire someone to do it for you and
get your own merchant account. If you do it that way, whoever you go
to will have a shopping cart solution they use (don't go with someone
that doesn't).
The thing you need to realize is that a good website isn't cheap, and a
cheap website probably won't make you as much a well made one. It's
just like pottery really, if you think about it.
Bottom line: If it's a small part of your business, treat it so. If
it's a large part, treat it so.
BJ Clark
(who does websites for a living and pots to relieve the stress)
On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:55 PM, Cary Chleborad wrote:
> The cool thing about Paypal is that there is no monthly charge, the
> sales
> mechanism is very simple or if you wish, you may use the IPN option to
> create an automated sales interface (you need to have more experience
> for
> this). NO COST to get started either way - this is the cool part.
> Finally,
> did I mention that there are no monthly costs or startup fees? Paypal
> only
> charges as a percentage of the transaction. They also offer a
> MasterCard
> debit card with which to spend the received funds with. When you
> expense
> through the debit card, you get 1.5% (or something close) cash back
> into the
> account. This effectively reduces the fees to almost nothing.
>
> Oh yes - did I mention the part about NO SETUP CHARGES OR MONTHLY
FEES?
>
> -Cary
>
> P.S. Get the point about the monthly fees and setup charges???
>
>>
>> Dear Clayarters, till now my website was just a showroom, but I do
>> consider to start internet sales. My husband does my website ...
>> How difficult/easy is it to learn to secure your website to be able
to
>> do internet sales?
>> Is it worthwhile to hire someone professional and what benefits will
>> there be in hiring such a person?
>> Does anyone tried to work through Pay pal or something similar?
>> Any tips on improving the visits to your website?
>> Are there any other things that I should know about before putting my
>> foot into this business?
>> I would appreciate any advice that will take me in the right
>> direction.
>> Thanks.
>
>
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