Selling on your website 2024 (Lemon Squeezy, Payhip, Shopify etc)

[Post-Crisis D]

For internet sales at least isn't it $100,000 sales for Kansas since 2021? That's the latest information I could find.

Yay!  You're right.  The source I found a couple weeks ago must not have been updated.

Now the lowest is Pennsylvania at $10,000 in sales.

Alaska, Arkansas, D.C., Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming remain "or" states where you either meet a minimum threshold ($100k-$250k typically) or have 200 or more sales.

As Lorri said in an earlier post, it would make things easier if more states would drop the "or 200 transactions" trigger.  If you have an eBook priced at $5 and sell 200, that's only $1000 in sales.  That 200 transactions trigger certainly doesn't help authors or small sellers.

[Bill Hiatt]

I am going to blatantly promote the blog on my new store (don't look at my books/promotion is not for me). LOL  That is all.

https://payhip.com/LavenderCottageBookShop/blog/lavender-cottage-blog

ETA:  The blog feature is one reason I went back to Payhip.  I can duplicate the website blog so more readers see it.

If I hadn't already invested a lot of time in other approaches, a mere glance at your site would persuade me to use the same approach.

It is one of the most beautiful online stores I've seen. And there's a clear, well-branded vibe there. It makes your books all the more appealing.

[T. M. Bilderback]

I already had my stuff on PayHip and Gumroads. Now, I'm adding Lemon Squeezy to the list. I only have a few things listed there so far, but I'm working on it!

[alhawke]

Bookfunnel integration is the only thing that's stopped me from moving forward. I think, in time, this will be remedied, particularly if Story Origin's new feature gets more popular.

Good luck and let us know how it works out, Lorri!

[T. M. Bilderback]

Do not consider this self-promotion.  I want to show the difference in Lemon Squeezy with StoryOrigin vs. Fourthwall.  If I black out everything, it's too difficult to see.  So again, DO NOT BUY anything. LOL

Lemon Squeezy with StoryOrigin and the newsletter magnet at the top.  StoryOrigin helps with any loading issues, but I still may add a PDF for the books. I already have one for the reader magnet.
https://shop.lavendercottagebooks.com/

Fourthwall with their membership option and Printful for merchandise.  Fourthwall does not integrate with BookFunnel, but I have the option for readers to request I send them a BF link when they buy/download an ebook.  (The three paintings were done by D.L. Gardner for the merchandise.)
https://lavendercottagebookshop.com/

I like both sites.

[alhawke]

They're both great ,
but the swag from fourthwall looks like a lot of fun.

[Lorri Moulton]

Thank you both for the kind words. 

One thing I forgot to mention is that Story Origin does a very nice 'retailer links' option on their store 'book' page. I don't mind sending people back to retailers if they prefer, so I like this option.

They use a B2R link to set it up, but I think it looks nicer...and it automatically offers the different Amazon store options.

[Bill Hiatt]

Do not consider this self-promotion.  I want to show the difference in Lemon Squeezy with StoryOrigin vs. Fourthwall.  If I black out everything, it's too difficult to see.  So again, DO NOT BUY anything. LOL

Lemon Squeezy with StoryOrigin and the newsletter magnet at the top.  StoryOrigin helps with any loading issues, but I still may add a PDF for the books. I already have one for the reader magnet.
https://shop.lavendercottagebooks.com/

Fourthwall with their membership option and Printful for merchandise.  Fourthwall does not integrate with BookFunnel, but I have the option for readers to request I send them a BF link when they buy/download an ebook.  (The three paintings were done by D.L. Gardner for the merchandise.)
https://lavendercottagebookshop.com/

Both of them look beautiful. I credit your aesthetic sense for being able to make the best use of any platform.

The site of all that merch makes me want to try the same thing, even though I know perfectly well that I don't yet have the market for it.

[alhawke]

Hmm... I see many writers are still going with payhip. But payhip doesn't provide the webpage like Lemon Squeezy and Fourthwall. Why won't Lemon Squeezy and Fourthwall just work with Bookfunnel? That really is all that's keeping me from moving forward.

Are you able to deal with the tax problems with payhip now?