On 07/20/2009 03:24 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a first version of the amazon store online. I'd like to have > some feedback and consensus where to go from here. > > The shop is online at > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ > > If you are using Firefox you see a highlight on the search box. > Clicking on it enables you to add the "Amazon.com GNOME" search > engine. It's just like the normal search engine as shipped with > Firefox only the affiliate is set such that the GNOME foundation gets > a percentage of the subsequent sale. >
The shop looks good. The only question I had is if there is a way to change the text of the header so it's not overlapping the people image. > Basically the idea is to stimulate GNOME lovers to buy their stuff at > the GNOME amazon store and/or use the "Amazon.com GNOME" search > plugin. Does anybody know if the fees received for the plugin are the > same as for a shop. I can't find anything about it on the amazon site. > Seems to be a fixed percentage per product. > I believe the affiliate program is the same for either program. > I've also added the other shop outside the US > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ca > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/de > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/fr > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/jp > http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/uk > > These pages don't contain a shop yet (I prefer to have some feedback > first), but they contain the search engine already. > > A note. I can't do much about how the shop looks. I'm just embedding > http://astore.amazon.com/gnomestore-20 in a iframe. Amazon just allows > me to play with some colors, fonts and which categories I want to add > For categories, specifically the GTK books - does anybody know how old those books are? Are they still relevant? > Things I'm still planning on doing > 1) Switching between the shops by putting links to the other shops on > each of the shop pages > 2) Add a link to the firefox extension I talked about earlier. I > already submitted it to addons.mozilla.org > 3) Add a link on which you can click to install the searchplugin > Those are all great ideas! > Let me know your thoughts. > > Thanks > > Jaap > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > Jaap - again, this is awesome, thank you very much for taking the ball and running with it. Paul -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
