Free idea: candy aisle

Posted by samb on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @11:17AM
from the self-post dept.

create an e-commerce widget that formats vertically for inclusion in blogs and on web sites. (leftnav, rightnav) a good place to sell you e-books, t-shirts, etc.

make it free to use and pick up a % + transaction fee. hook it up with amazon and others with affiliates programs for those without things to sell.

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Re:Free idea: candy aisle by henryw on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @05:04PM (#65995)

there's amazon widgets and blinkcart

http://widgets.amazon.com/ http://www.blinkcart.com/

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Re:Free idea: candy aisle by samb on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @05:43PM (#66017)

i'm still checking out amazon, but blinkcart is too, well, blinky for my tastes. i'm not a big fan of the lightbox effect and when the store pops up it's loud.

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Re:Free idea: candy aisle by bcater on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @12:52PM (#65868)

I think I saw something on TechCrunch over the summer about a company that does exactly this.

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Re:Free idea: candy aisle by samb on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @02:05PM (#65896)

market validation. you should be their competition.

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Re:Free idea: candy aisle by cstejerean on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @12:03PM (#65844)

this is kind of neat. if i could easily throw up something like this on the right side of my blog where visitors could purchase books that I'm recommending I would definitely do it.

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Re:Free idea: candy aisle by samb on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @02:04PM (#65894)

you should do it them. i don't have the time to do it myself, but would be a willing first customer.

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Re:Free idea: candy aisle by luccastera on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @03:28PM (#65929)

check out http://rightcart.com/

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Re:Free idea: candy aisle by samb on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @05:47PM (#66021)

rightcart looks like it might work, but it's not apparent how the pricing model is structured. i assume i have to sign up to get that info. (and i'm not paying a buck for a "wink" - whatever that means.)

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