Nintendoeats
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(Preface: I am in Canada, in case that affects anything)
I really enjoy photographing vintage computers. I spend enough time on these photos that I've been thinking that it would be nice to start doing something with the good ones beyond putting them on the fridge. Specifically, I'd like to open some kind of web store and sell prints (not with the goal of making a living, just as a way to put the photos out there and perhaps fund the hobby). This is somewhat intimidating; I only have so much spare time to devote to setting such a thing up, but I am worried that if I go about things incorrectly I might wind up having to manage something unwieldy, or making an unreasonable upfront investment.
As I understand it, at a minimum I will need to do the following:
Is my understanding of what's involved correct? I'm prepared to put some legwork in to do this and I accept that it mightn't be very successful, but I am rather nervous about unexpected pitfalls.
Thanks!
I really enjoy photographing vintage computers. I spend enough time on these photos that I've been thinking that it would be nice to start doing something with the good ones beyond putting them on the fridge. Specifically, I'd like to open some kind of web store and sell prints (not with the goal of making a living, just as a way to put the photos out there and perhaps fund the hobby). This is somewhat intimidating; I only have so much spare time to devote to setting such a thing up, but I am worried that if I go about things incorrectly I might wind up having to manage something unwieldy, or making an unreasonable upfront investment.
As I understand it, at a minimum I will need to do the following:
- Establish a relationship with a fulfillment house. Examples I have looked at are ProDPI.com and WHCC.com.
- Set up a web store using an external service, such as Shopify.
- Create an actual website that links to the web store. I already have this (built in Joomla), but it has been in a half-finished state since December and I am prepared to restart from scratch with Wordpress at this point.
- Link up the web store and the fulfillment house somehow so that I don't need to manually manage every order.
- Do technical photo stuff (apply watermarks, ensure that color profiles are embedded).
- Market somehow (???)
Is my understanding of what's involved correct? I'm prepared to put some legwork in to do this and I accept that it mightn't be very successful, but I am rather nervous about unexpected pitfalls.
Thanks!