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Quote from: cascoly on July 07, 2014, 18:44Quote from: EmberMike on July 06, 2014, 17:42Quote from: R2D2 on July 06, 2014, 15:04In my view the buyer wants an "agency feeling" with a large selection not many sites in a network. The things have to be simple for buyers........If having one single account is a hassle to some buyers, having an account at every Symbiostock site they want to buy from is a non-starter. They won't do it. Symbiostock never stood a chance unless the lack of a single point of entry to the network was resolved somehow.there are a coupla approaches that might work:1. when a new user registers give them a chance to register with the other sites at the same time (or to choose which sites to register with)2. have an option that would automatically add the person as a new user to all the other sites3. create a central depository were people just sign in once, then on the login screen have an option to use that instead of the individual site loginother considerations: privacy issues, security of passwords, different treatment of 'spam' on individual sites, etcThis was discussed briefly on the Symbiostock forums, and the issue with blanket logins or registrations (other than security issues) is marketing your individual site. Having my own site allows me to finally see who's buying my images and to contact them directly, so hopefully over time I'll build a mailing list and a stable of customers. If there's one registration for all 180 sites, who gets to see who that customer is? You can't let everyone see, because then that buyer might be swamped with emails, etc. from 180 people. And if you let nobody see, then we've lost that ability to build a customer base individually.I agree registration should be easier...I'm just not sure what the solution is, honestly. But I do think one thing that would help is not having to use PayPal, just direct credit card purchases. Not sure how to solve that either.
Quote from: EmberMike on July 06, 2014, 17:42Quote from: R2D2 on July 06, 2014, 15:04In my view the buyer wants an "agency feeling" with a large selection not many sites in a network. The things have to be simple for buyers........If having one single account is a hassle to some buyers, having an account at every Symbiostock site they want to buy from is a non-starter. They won't do it. Symbiostock never stood a chance unless the lack of a single point of entry to the network was resolved somehow.there are a coupla approaches that might work:1. when a new user registers give them a chance to register with the other sites at the same time (or to choose which sites to register with)2. have an option that would automatically add the person as a new user to all the other sites3. create a central depository were people just sign in once, then on the login screen have an option to use that instead of the individual site loginother considerations: privacy issues, security of passwords, different treatment of 'spam' on individual sites, etc
Quote from: R2D2 on July 06, 2014, 15:04In my view the buyer wants an "agency feeling" with a large selection not many sites in a network. The things have to be simple for buyers........If having one single account is a hassle to some buyers, having an account at every Symbiostock site they want to buy from is a non-starter. They won't do it. Symbiostock never stood a chance unless the lack of a single point of entry to the network was resolved somehow.
In my view the buyer wants an "agency feeling" with a large selection not many sites in a network. The things have to be simple for buyers...
You know who buys your images, you get a PayPal notification email with the buyer details, email and billing address. So you can build your customer database in the 'one login' scenario as well.
I have my site set up that buyers can use any one of five social media/blog ID's to log in as well. They can click on the icons for Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Wordpress or Blogger and log in with that instead of creating a new registration. When setting them up I tried to minimize as much as possible the information the app reads in hopes that it doesn't turn someone away.
That's great! Would you mind telling which plugin you're using?