Thursday, July 21, 2005

Product here we come!

I got the Mormonchic.com store up last night - Mormonchic.com Store. I still need to get feedback from the other editors, who by the way are on board for keeping the site up for a while, if we can raise enough money to keep the site going. So feel free to provide feedback.

I'm pretty limited in what I can and cannot change about the look of the site. As far as pricing I went for a middle price point... we're long making a few dollars on most of the products, so the profit margin is pretty small on everything we sell.

As for the graphic... here's what I initally thought would work:


but we ended up going with this one instead... we were concerned that on something small like the button, the fontdinner font would be too difficult to read... any thoughts?

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Hanging on by a thread

Back in June the other editors of Mormonchic.com emailed to say they were finished with Mormonchic.com, stating time and money as their main reasons for wanting out... They want to pull down the site completely, maintain the domain name, and then some time in the future when families and lives aren't so demanding bring it back up again in some format or another. Their reason for taking the site off line instead of handing it over to others to carry it on for them... they said "I would hate to leave and then Mormonchic expands and becomes even more successful."

In an effort to salvage what little is left of the site readership, recoop my own monetary investment and possibly gain enough captial to keep this little venture a float, I have obtained a tax id number (which I've been wanting for quite some time now) and have proposed the sale of Mormonchic.com products.

The following is the proposed logo - the logo from our website - and I'm wondering what everyone thinks of it.
We're looking to sell a tote bag, t-shirt, blank notebook, oval sticker, and button using this graphic.


Our orgional tote from five years ago, had this graphic..
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Do we need to have .COM , or our old tag line "the website for chic Mormon chicks!"
on our product logo to have it be effective or beneficial as advertising for website? And would people purchase it if it did?