DISQUS

Tom · 5 months ago

That's all well and good.. if you have products to sell. How about a plugin (and a tutorial from you) on affiliate site sales via a WordPress site??

Tom

John · 5 months ago

Thanks Tom, I will put that into the coffers and see what we can come up with for you.

John

vince jelenic · 5 months ago

Hey, John, on the money, as usual.
A little harsh on the "snake-oil", but almost warranted.

Now, if you add a two minute tutorial on how to use the rss-include plugins in wordpress to bring in ebay, bonanzle, etsy, and our other online stores and feeds into same blog, you could label this posting how to get an e-commerce HOME web-store up in 7 minutes. :-)

It's nice to have a home to go back to at end of day, where all your stuff is neatly gathered in one spot, I think.

John · 5 months ago

Well Vince, you know I do have a "shock jock" persona sometimes...LMAO. I dunno, just my nature I guess, I am working on it ;-). I like that thought of doing that. There is also this thing that Ina from Auctionbytes has called Every Place I Sell that does that for you somewhat. You could add that to your blog as a "quick and dirty solution". Also I will look around for an answer to what you are looking for. It really is a great thought sir.

Thanks, John

vince jelenic · 5 months ago

John, everyplaceIsell is great, but customer has to jump around web.

I'm thinking more along lines of what Cliff did with VintageMeld.com or what we did at greenspot.ning.com.

In our case, we have tab menus which show a page with our bonanzle stuff, another for ebay stuff, and links to categorized searches on google-base of our products.

All neatly within our own HOME site. User only leaves if they click on an item, and then, only in new window.

Cheers
& keep on shocking and rocking.

Cliff Aliperti · 5 months ago

Hey Vince,

I might have found a home for it "all" - I'd previously been pointing people to my Google Profile to show all my stuff, but have you ever heard of storytlr.com? I found it this weekend and thought it'd be a lot longer before I was showing it off, but it's really pulling together fast. Here's mine.

It's free, it's hosted, and it's very easy to work with. I opted to have the page default to all of my blog posts, but you can see I have a Store stream there (just eBay so far, but I could easily add more), as well as a social stream (mainly my twitter right now).

Like I said, I really just found this Saturday and have done this much with it so far. You can also post directly to your storytlr site. I'm finding it to be like tumblr on steroids right now, loving that I can import my Stores RSS!

Thanks, Cliff

vince jelenic · 5 months ago

great stuff, Cliff. just signed on, awaiting "confirmation email" chewingnailsagainlovethesethings.

Back in 1994, storytelling was what I envisioned the future web to be, and actually designed a product called SimulNet as training for kids. They got it quite easily back then. I like the concept, can't wait to see more of it.

Could be a really good tool to build TRUST in a seller, I would think, something lacking when ebay and venues break up. It's actually Web 4.0 stuff.

cheers

Lisa · 5 months ago

So John, are you recommending this wordpress plugin to build a small e-store? It's really that easy? Or would it better to go with something like 1%1estores, if you've never built a webstore?

John · 5 months ago

I don't really dig the 1&1 estores. I have had 1&1 for our provider for years, but the estore is not that robust. If you have NO experience at all, check out the story here about Buy It Sell If from our guest blogger Cliff...

http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/03/22/buyi...

John

Cliff Aliperti · 5 months ago

Hey Vince, I found that one when I was looking into Aplifeeder, which turned out to be a bit beyond my technical skills. When Amplifeeder was discussed elsewhere though SweetCron and Storytlr kept coming up and since all I needed to play with Storytlr was an online account I had to try it.

It's so easy my only disappointment is that after I work on it a couple more hours I'm not going to really have anything more to play with!

Cliff

vince jelenic · 5 months ago

Hey Cliff, Storytlr is a life-feed.

Stop playing with the software, and start playing with your life -- that's the aim.

Software is supposed to be easy to "get", setup, and forget. The activity should be in the life behind it.

Keep a varied and storied life going, and storytlr will now fill itself.

While I realize it has limits, and will need some babysitting now and again... the idea is brilliant.

Now, go one step farther, imagine storytlr being comprised of multiple users lives intertwined, where you could follow a conversation among various users, (friends) for instance. that's web 4.0. when ideas can be dispersed, yet filtered together and mashed into a momentary life experience.
(Ok, looks like we've caught up to 1994 now :-)

Now, imagine selling into that galaxy.

cheers.

fitzcharming · 5 months ago

Hi John - Love these videos but your message may be a teeny bit misleading. If you scroll to the bottom of the 3 sites you gave as examples, 2 out of the 3 were "designed" by a company. I'd wager the third one was too, they just haven't included the designers name. While setting up an e-commerce website is pretty straightforward (I did one on the zen cart open source free platform), in my opinion the graphics and design are worth paying for as long as one does the research. I tried to teach myself graphic design and I'm hopeless. And thanks to Cliff for the tip on Storytlr, gonna have to check into that. - Wanda

John · 5 months ago

Great catch Wanda!!! I did not see that. Yeah, some more "developers" LMAO. Although these are more designers, and I love a good web designer ;-) Thanks so much for pointing that out to us.

John

Cliff Aliperti · 5 months ago

Vince, there's an easy Disqus integration with Storytlr, which I believe aims the entire experience towards the web 4.0 conversation you're speaking of.

Rob Metras · 5 months ago

Very useful and informative post. Look forward to more fom you.

PhilipB · 4 months ago

Thank You for this very good Information