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Anyone have their own e-commerice site?

mayfly

mayfly

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Folks,

CD sales of Cornflower Blue are picking up.  I've got an agreement with CD Baby, which is fine (hey - they got us onto iTunes!), but I'd like to have more revenue for us.  I'm not really liking the turn-key ones (yahoo - paypal, etc) because the store sites look crappy and I'm not a fan of the monthly fees.

Anyone rolled their own?  what did you do/use?
 
Many commercial hosting services have all the required software included as part of the package you lease when you sign on. Some of them even have site-builder software to jump-start you building a site. I've used several hosts over the years, and by far the most generous with space, bandwidth, software, and services is 1&1, but there are plenty of others out there. It's a highly competitive business.
 
1&1 has some really great tools.  But they charge you for everything you use.  They offer you the tools but charge you a license fee to use each one.  I don't know if they continue to charge you for what you created with them afterwards. I would nope not, but I haven't used any of their website building programs. I just did it from scratch.

Mind you if they work well and your website actually works... I think the license fees would be a lot less than paying a professional to do it.  I hear it costs thousands of dollars to get one of these sites set up properly.
 
Um... I can get anything on itunes...

case in point

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sound-raves-techno-vision/id382417259

this was done in one dudes basement. I think it costs all of 47 dollars to get it on itunes. (cost like, 2 freaking grand to print the CD's, though.)

We're stoked that we're getting sales in japan and Germany, we have no idea why... but... we're stoked.

P.S.

I'm not in that band. I'm just ONE of the Graphics/Merch guy. and good friends with 3 of them.

EDIT___________________________________________________

the keyboardist did Covendetta's site... I'm pretty sure he used a template.

www.covendetta.com

the background usually isn't blue... but he got really sick in the middle of updating it... and its kinda... on hold.

 
AGWAN said:
Um... I can get anything on itunes...
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He said he's already on iTunes, but wants more exposure. Not everybody buys on iTunes. For instance, I can't imagine what would get me to shop there. Plus, I'm sure there's some sort of revenue-sharing that has to take place to be listed there. Why sell a tune for a buck and give Apple $.30 when you can run your own site and keep the whole buck? I know $.30 isn't a lot of money, but what if you sold 100,000 copies of something? That's $30,000 you've given to Apple for nearly nothing. Or, you could buy yourself a nice truck.
 
Mayfly, go to GODADDY, and get a site for cheap, I think they have a website tonight app, but it is way easy to actually learn to do code, I put my first web site up in a weelend
plus there are a lot of guys who just get off building sites and do it pretty cheap
using most of those instant sites gets you a site that is real slow because to be generic like they are, requires a lot of excess code for a browser to go through looking for what it needs, you want simple code that is fast. Just think about how you will kick off a site that is slow loading
for sales, you can hire a store front that charges you per sale, you tell them what you want, and they put it up and give you a link, your customer never know they are off you site, you can also add one of the sites that does t shirts, coffee cups, lighters, bumper stickers etc of your logo and they work the same way. they do the billing and send you the money
If you do set up your own site, and do the commerce where you are billing you have to set up a commercial CC account, get a tax ID number, get all legal and stuff, what a pain. This way you just pay taxes at the end of the year on your personal SS number.
 
I'm not a fan of godaddy, personally. Had a good deal of trouble with them.

I have done a bit of web design and such, but I'm not too familiar with the e-commerce section. I bet you could find a really nice, open source web program to run,
 
Been a customer of go daddy for over 7 years, have nothing but good to say about them and their stellar customer service, have never had any down time either.
I do my own code however so that may be the issue.
 
Jusatele said:
how is a domain GoDaddy fault? you either can get it or someone has it already
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A lot of my time using them has had a domain I bought with them, and tried having it directed to another site. Not a redirect, but a new domain that is the same as a subdomain. We've switched servers more than once, and it took forever for the domain issues to get sorted out. I just don't like the domain administration interface they use.
 
Well ok, I know if I buy a domain, I get all the related domains and direct them to the one I want and within 10 minutes everything is working fine, I also know that I can use their premium hosting and get better bandwidth speed than a lot of other hosting services, I have probably set up over and manage 40 websites. I started out just for a friend and it has grown, I go buy a block of the domain name, such a .com.org.net.info.co, and redirect them all to .com, set up a good home page and start the build like a christmas tree, I use offsite storefronts et al for simplicity and most of my customers are very satisfied, they get daily emails of products to be shipped and monthly wire transfers of money. The few who wanted to do it onsite have only had admin trouble dealing with the CC billing and stuff.
 
Gentlemen,

Hosting is taken care of.  Site has been up for months.  Just need a storefront.

As some have pointed out, for the near term perhaps a paypal/amazon solution would be best.  There are tax and business implications that make these turn/key solutions more attractive.

To bad they just look like ass  :)
 
Hey Jusatele,

Do you have any examples of sites that you did?  Would like to see your work and how it integrates with the outside storefronts.
 
mayfly said:
Gentlemen,

Hosting is taken care of.  Site has been up for months.  Just need a storefront.

As some have pointed out, for the near term perhaps a paypal/amazon solution would be best.  There are tax and business implications that make these turn/key solutions more attractive.

To bad they just look like ass  :)
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Warmoth used osCommerce initially.  It is a free solution, though I recall it being ColdFusion based.  It worked pretty well.
 
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