sister_raphael: (deardiary)


Well, I made calendars and they've arrived and I've sold half of the stock already. My after thought was that I had a huge number of quotes and ladies from the first book which weren't used and I should have used them to supplement the book. Instead I used ones from the book, so it's more of an "instead-of" than an "also" purchase. For the next book in the series, I will do extra pictures and not the same.

The printing is really nice and I'm very pleased with them. I ordered more for the Xmas market I'm going to and since they've been produced before, they are arriving in record time rather than the usual amount of time for a new item, so I'll have plenty!

Here's a little look at what they look like inside...



The ladies in it who have seen the calendars are really delighted, so that's pretty nice. An unexpected catastrophe which occurred is that because there's a spiral binding, they can't be posted overseas as a Large Letter at cheap postage rates. I can post them cheaply in Australia, but not overseas, so that's a huge disappointment to me.

Apart from that, everything is perfect with them!

If you want one, you can order here at my new Square store.

sister_raphael: (tools)

I'm very excited to announce that I've successfully made my very own little Square shop. It's similar to Etsy, but I can manage everything, and they only take commission on sales, not have a monthly fee likes other online marketing tools.

It was a not much of a challenge to make the website and the phone app all sync and get the stock to be the same and learn how to manage it with my own mobile hotspot. A few little hiccups, but easily navigated. It has a great little card reader, so now for the first time, people can use their credit cards to buy things!

I did have trouble with the shipping estimator, but since I have prices for shipping from my post office, the best work around for me was to create multiple listings INCLUDING the postage to different countries. The shopper just needs to select the item with the right country flag on it and they can pay for the item plus shipping. It's a small problem if someone wants a few heavy things in the one package, but they can contact me directly if it's over a certain weight and I can work around there.

I don't have so many sales myself that I can't make this a workable solution, so it's working great for me!

I used photos of my niece, who has been very kind about letting me use her face on things and I love the colour scheme and clean look of the site. I've been able to link my Things For Sale on my regular Rosalie's Medieval Woman website to the shop and so far, that's worked well too, so that all my old links remain in place but point here.

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