24 July 2010
 
OK, who among you may have calendars planned for 2011?
 
I have recently began to stage an area of the Retro Lovely online store to feature partner products:

 

Why?

Well some of you do have merchandise that you sell already or are planning on it.  Distributing those products or getting them in front of an audience is the challenge.  I want to offer anyone involved with Retro Lovely the opportunity to take advantage of the store traffic the magazine is growing and offer space to showcase your other merchandise.  It will be on one hand an endorsement from Retro Lovely and on the other yet one more means you could get it in front of the right people.

 

With the prime holiday/calendar season coming right on the heels of Retro Lovely N0.3 as well as the Taboo Edition we will be poised to offer quite a few "packages" and "sets" for the gift giving season.  I am eager to include anyone's individual products as I feel collecting them together in one place will suggest even more validity of them and enhance their perceived value. 

 

It could be done in a number of manners where either some examples of the products are consigned to me, which allows the bundling of items together at package pricing and or allow the customers savings on shipping...  Another angle would be to drop ship, which would be an order comes in, I notify and remit funding to you, and then you ship.  I am not looking to make money on your products here either.  What I am trying to do is offer yet another benefit to being involved with Retro Lovely as I maintain that together we can all realize more benefit as partners than going it alone.  I would only ask for the costs of transacting the sales, each credit card sale costs soemthing on the lines of 2.5% (I'll verify this)  I have also invited Joe with East Coast Pinups to have full admin rights in the store, so just as any of you can now see how many clicks and sales your efforst generate, Joe can see it all and has agreed to provide a 2nd party review and accountability when it comes to me informing everyone how things are going and such.

SO, anyone planning relevant merch that wants to take advantage of this, let me know, the only thing here, I would want the quality of the merchandise to be equal to what we're doing with the magazine. So I could not endorse print on demand merchandise, there's a number of companies that do this and while some products are actually quite fine  (photo coffee mugs for instance, or the very company I've been using for some of the embroidered products for instance) many others are obviously not the same quality as mass produced items. So keep this in mind.  QUALITY merchandise only.

 

I'm told a few pallets of issue #2 hit me next Wednesday.  I am going to pounce on getting those right back out to everyone.  I did have the shipper parse out a dozen copies and ship to some of you in California and points West of the Mississippi as I didn't want to lose the time of them coming all the way east just to have to go all the way back to the west coast....  so that cut down on some fuel uses in addition to time.

 

M