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New Orders Are Now Simpler To Deal With!

February 6th, 2012

Our team has been working on a new Order tab design, that not only allows you to sift through your orders with ease, but helps making your order fulfillment faster. It’s out, it’s colorful and we hope you like it as much as we do.

The latest release of the Order Page allows you to clearly mark orders that require your attention with different statuses and colors. The hover-over preview allows you to take a quick look at the order without loading a new page, and of course, searching for a specific order is now even easier!

An added bonus we’re sure you would love to know about is the ability to print out an order receipt (with the order total) or a packing slip (with no mention of payment total). This is found in every order view page, click on Print to preview and proceed.

And last, for those orders you wish to remove from your daily view, a newly added Archive status allows you to store this order away and come back to it at anytime if you need to.

Hope these features improve your fulfillment of orders! And stay tuned for a lot more to come!

Musicians This One Is For You!

February 1st, 2012

We’re happy to announce the release of SoundCloud integration within Wazala! This integration allows you to set up a music shop with a few clicks, and grab music you wish to offer for sale, from SoundCloud into your Wazala store. We feel many musicians already using SoundCloud will benefit from the easy upload and set up of their music for sale. Not having to go through the creations of separate products, waiting for loading time and doing it over and over again.

The process is quite simple. In the Product tab, you will find the option of importing your tracks from SoundCloud, Once you click on that, an authorization page appears and you need to login into SoundCloud.

Once you allow Wazala access, your tracks will be listed. Here you can choose which tracks to import, state the price and if you wish to activate them for sale. Wazala can also import the genres as categories.

The import will start once you confirm. Depending on the size of your files, this should not take long. Once the import is complete click on Done, and you will be able to see your tracks listed as products for sale.

Customers will as usual, be able to preview the song, and once purchased the delivery is automated and secure through a masked Wazala URL.

It’s that simple, it’s quick and the best thing you can make money selling your music! Rock on!

Spicing Up Your Product Descriptions

November 4th, 2011

You’ve got the product down. It’s your baby, you’ve worked hard on it, your in-love with it. Now comes the part where you have to present your product to the masses, in the hopes that they too will fall head over heels. A good picture is a nice side dish, but an amazing product description is the big, juicy, steak that is really gonna get their mouths watering. Here are a few tips on how to serve up a perfect worded plate of seduction.

What is the product for

People like it when you are specific. They want you to give them an idea of how and when they should use a product, and what goal they will accomplish by using it. Say your selling a lipstick. Is it an everyday lipstick, a neutral color, that is subtle but will make them look slightly more put together when they go took work? Or is it a sexy, special occasion, knock ‘em dead cherry red lipstick, that they should put on before going out on a date? People are looking for specific things, so you should let them know in writing that they’ve found exactly what they’re looking for.

How will it make them feel

Most consumers buy products based on feelings, so why shouldn’t you be specific about exactly how your product is going to make them feel? Is it going to make them feel cool? Sexy? Alive? Confident? Savvy? Frumpy? (I hope not the last one). Let’s revisit the lipstick example. Say our product is that “knock ‘em dead cherry red” lipstick, part of your description could read: “This lipstick is guaranteed to be the milkshake that brings all the boys to the yard, and have you thinking, damn right, it’s better than yours”. That’s a pretty corny, song-referencing example, but you get the idea.

How long has this product been on the Market

Is it a hot new product that they just have to have? Or a longstanding that’s become a classic go to? These are questions that should be answered in your descriptions. Let people know how long the products been around. If it’s a top seller, note it in your description. If it’s a seasonal product or a limited edition, tell people that they’d better act fast, or they might just miss out. If you just brought back a product due to popular demand, people should know that it’s there for just that reason. This will create a bit of a a buzz and personality for the product. Giving customers a product’s history can help them make a more informed decision. All in all, that’s what these tips are for. Give people more information to confirm their decision, so that they have to look no further for the product that is just right for them.

Creating An Online Holiday Pop Up Store

October 23rd, 2011

With the Holiday season just around the corner, more businesses are catching onto the idea of a Holiday Pop Up Shop. These little businesses open around the Holidays spreading their marketing hard, then simply disappearing once the season is over. Halloween shops are found in strip malls, while Christmas gifts and gift wrapping businesses take advantage of this in small mall carts and little huts. They pop up out of nowhere, make a quick profit during the holidays then close shop.

Lately the same idea is becoming popular online. Ecommerce sites, and businesses are also taking advantage of this by creating limited time holiday pop up stores for specific merchandise of the season, or even marketing there goods as featured gift ideas in a separate Holiday store.

Thinking of creating one this season? Well Wazala would be a perfect fit!

Easiest Holiday Ecommerce Setup
The simple and easy to use store manager of Wazala allows you to add products easily for sale. Whether you wish to offer digital products with digital delivery or shippable products, it is effortless to create a product, upload a few pictures, set shipping rates (as well as express shipping to meet the holiday deadline) and list your products for sale. We truly mean it when we say easy!

Spread The Joy Of Shopping
A quick way to market your new store is to publish it on your site immediately. Wazala’s viral features allows you to add your store to multiple websites, social profiles and especially Facebook for added marketing and sales push. You can create the store with the true functionality of a pop up light box. The Wazala red button, looks great with a Christmas theme (you can also create your own), and you can customize it to be clear with a title of “Holiday Gifts”. Add it to your Holiday specials page on your website, as well as our Facebook business page for a fully functional Facebook store, and you’re ready to take orders anywhere your customer is.

Holiday Discounts & Special Offers
Coupons, sales and special discounts are also easy to create with Wazala. Your ecommerce platform comes pre-configured to give out discount codes on specific products or store wide deals, and customers are always on the look out to save more during the Holidays. Place your on sale products in a category, offer coupon codes on social networks or for returning customers via email marketing. A proven way to close deals is to also offer free shipping, or at least discounted shipping. While some care to get their shipment on a discount, many also look for express shipping that you can set up with Wazala for an extra fee that your customer can pay.

Socially Drive Your Pop Up Store
The purpose is to attract those looking for deals and special promotions, and using the Wazala social promoter with discount codes, this time of year would prove helpful in gaining new customers. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter can be configured to your Wazala store to post out your special deals, Holiday products and shipping rates. With a simple password configuration, you will be ready to ring those bells and shout out your offerings.

With only a few weeks left for the Holidays starting early is important. Many try to finish their shopping early enough to relax and enjoy the season, while marketing may take time to work, putting in your efforts early will prove big. A big tip we hope you would take advantage of is to send out a coupon code to all your customers, allow them to redeem and also send it out to a friend.

Share a little this Holiday season and reap the rewards on the New Year.

Selling Your Music Online

September 5th, 2011

If your reading this, you’re probably a musician, a band manager, or something in between, and you want to make money selling music online. This article will give you a few ideas on how to make that happen.
The first thing you have to know about selling your music online is that its VERY COMPETITIVE and you need to be vocally smarter not loader!
Ready to put some BASS into your sales? Read on..

Be Everywhere
Don’t be shy. If you want to actually sell your songs online, your going to have to get your butt out of your cozy cocoon of solitude and become an annoyingly social butterfly. Sign up for every music service, forum and blog in existence. Create awesome profiles with pictures of your band in badass poses. If the regular band profile is a shy, acne ridden nerd sulking in the back of class, your profile should be the popular jock with a heart of gold and perfect SAT scores. Not every profile you make is going to be a home run. Some of them will get no attention whatsoever. The key is to be in front of every pitch, swinging like a freaking madman.

Make It Easy to Find
There’s no point being crazy cool if people have no clue where to go to witness your awesomeness. In order to make your presence known, you should tag your music with specific keywords that are relevant to the music your putting out. Just to give an example, my brother is in a band. I would best describe what him and his band “play” as a highly delicate mix of jazz fusion, electro-acoustic pop, and horrifyingly awful garbage. So if he wanted to make sure that people found his music (I don’t know why he would), he would tag his music with the words “indie, jazz fusion, electro acoustic pop, horrifyingly, awful, garbage. That way, if someone was in the mood to take a dive into the musical equivalent of a dumpster, the incomprehensible heap of noise that his band calls music would be right there to aptly accommodate them. (sorry brother!)

Sell Anywhere
So your a pretty big deal, and easier to find than an senior citizen in miami. Now its time to start printing the money. Wazala and the Benjamins go way back, and we’re always down to arrange an introduction. We make it scary easy to start selling your music online, so that making bank doesn’t make you crazy. Another great feature that makes Wazala so incredibly amazing is that it allows you embed your store everywhere. Your Facebook, your blogs, your tumblr, your website, your mom’s website, it doesn’t matter. Long story short, anywhere you show your “I live to rock” mug, people will be able to buy your “I live to rock” mugs.

Stay Social
Talk with your fans. Engage them. Let them know whats going on with your band. This goes hand in hand in hand with being everywhere. A social media presence online is imperative in spreading the word about your band, as well as retaining fans and keeping them informed. Basically, people expect to hear from you. With Wazala’s social promoter, this is a breeze. The social promoter recommends and publishes messages to your twitter and facebook account, making it much more simple and efficient

Offer Something Different
Don’t be boring. Offer more than just music. Selling your merch is a great way to make extra money and raise awareness about your band. You can sell posters, CD covers, t-shirts, unreleased songs, tickets to shows…..the list goes on and on. You could also sell signed merch for your hardcore supporters. Wazala allows makes selling all these things easy. You can also sell the physical version of your album, in addition to the digital version.

Cut The Middle Man
Cut out the middle man! Make sure that everything you sell is revenue to you! Wazala does not take a transaction fee. Just a minimum subscription, & there is also a free store where you can sell up to five products to start with until you can afford more.

Show Your Best
Make great music. Music that gets a reaction. When it comes down to it, if your music isn’t good, no amount of marketing is going to be able to sell it. Remember you may only get one chance to make an impression on a listener, so you better make it count.

Dune Music – An interview with the people behind the talent

August 11th, 2011

Lately we seem to see more musicians and labels using ecommerce solutions like Wazala to better their online sales of both music and merch. The importance of engaging with your fans directly and allowing them to buy from you on your own website or blog has been proven successful in achieving better revenues. We caught up this week with Adam Sieff from Dune Music, to chat about their experience with online sales.

Tell us about Dune Music and what it is you do?
We’re a platform for promoting and recording some of Britain’s most talented jazz artists, all of whom have won a clutch of prestigious awards plus several nominations for MOBO, Urban and other music prizes. I’m they Communications Director and deal with all aspects of marketing and promotion, especially in helping our musicians keep in touch with their supporters and the jazz scene.

What types of musicians or bands do you work with?
Strictly jazz…..that swings! We’re proud that all the artists came up through our Tomorrow’s Warriors jazz development scheme run by our founder, the original Jazz Warriors double bassist Gary Crosby OBE.

What prompted you to start an online store?
We wanted to be able to sell more than just music, such as rare posters and artwork, and to be able to control pricing easily. And we particularly felt the need to attend to our customers in a friendlier way.

What social media tools do you use to promote your business and how?
Twitter and facebook are effective, as are monthly emails and constantly updated Posterous blogs. But just because new tools are effective it doesn’t mean one should forget old media – newspapers, radio and TV are still hugely important. But nothing is as helpful as great reviews (in any media) and word of mouth reports that spread the word where you can’t.

Do you have any advice or tips to musicians on selling their music or merch online?
If what you’re doing is really good, then as the movie says, people will come. But it’s not a race, it can take time for your message to spread, so don’t panic and hang in there.

Any gigs coming up that you would like to announce?
We have a prestigious Friday Tonic event at London’s Southbank Centre on Friday the 14th of October at 5:30pm in the Clore Ballroom. Our Yamaha Music Experience prize-winning Tomorrow’s Warriors Biggish Band and the16 piece Tomorrow’s Warriors Youth Jazz Orchestra will be performing along with some special guests. And it’s a free event!

To know more about Dune Music, visit their site at www.dune-music.com

Augustine – An interview with the band

June 23rd, 2011

Jordan Meredith and Louis Johnson make up the electro-pop, New York-based band “Augustine,” named for Jordan’s hometown in St. Augustine, Florida where the two first met. They’ve been making music together since 2008 and we’re in love with not only their unique sound but their amazing site and Wazala online store!

We caught up with Louis this week to get the 411 on Augustine:

How would you describe your sound for someone who has never experienced your music before?
We describe our sound as a combination of Electro-pop and acoustic folk. We have our simple and melodic acoustic songs like “Silver Moon” and we also have our fast driving electronic tracks like “Heartbeats.” We just write whatever feels right at the moment. If you proscribe to one genre it limits what you can do and where you can take a song.

What prompted you to start your own online store?
Having an online store has always been on our radar but It wasn’t until our first college tour that we really understood the significance of it. After playing a show we’ll usually sell to about half of the people who are interested. The other half either don’t have cash, aren’t sure of what to get or just miss us. It’s so important to be able to offer an alternative to buying at the show.

How has music sampling affected online sales?
It’s hard to say… we haven’t really been online in a world without Sampling. I can only hope its been positive for us.

Do you have any tips, tricks or strategies for other musicians who are trying to sell online? Be it music or merch?
Always offer something that iTunes cant. Whether that be signed merch or a video of you singing happy birthday. Fans want something special.

Check out Augustine’s site for upcoming tour dates, music sampling and amazing merch: www.augustine-music.com

It’s Your Online Store – So You Store!

February 16th, 2011

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.
- John M. Smith

In an effort to make Wazala even more user friendly for the sale of digital products, we released the ability to host your files on you own servers. Many businesses out there are selling large digital files, that require a good amount of space to store. Wazala comes with 100MB dedicated to the digital download files, and you can buy more space as you need it. And now you can also host files on your own servers free of charge.

Digital artists, photographers, musicians, and authors of ebooks are drawn to Wazala for digital sales. The effortless set up and integration makes it a perfect tool to sell digital goods online, and now it simply got better and cheaper. Wazala will pull your files from your own server when an order is made and delivers it to you customer automatically. And best of all the ability to limit the number of downloads and link expiration is also included. No need to pay more for digital space, and no need to worry about secure delivery. It’s our way of saying “You earned it”!

The Digital Merchant

June 25th, 2010

“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”
– Douglas Engelbart

Developed to facilitate the sale of those with unique offerings, it is only common sense for Wazala to support the world of digital trade. Commodities have evolved into the intangible; selling digital assets such as photographs, ebooks and software is a vast and lucrative business for many.

Because it allows for various options within a product, Wazala makes it easy to sell multiple forms of a single file. A photographer, for example, can sell a low, medium or high resolution of a picture, not to mention the capacity to scale it into different sizes, file extensions and any other possibilities. And he can offer each option at a separate price.

And while the commerce of digital products is hard to control, with many people out there taking advantage of download links, Wazala has the ability to limit the number of downloads for each purchase as well as set the amount of time the download is available after payment. After all, even though they are not physical products, there is still a value to these digital files.

The ability to sell both physical and digital products within the same store is a nice bonus feature we have built into Wazala. Being able to offer a musician’s track for download as well as the original vintage LP makes Wazala a full offering online store solution. Checkout this sample blog that is set up with fonts/typefaces for sale, our music store where you can sample music and “mock” purchase an album or our photography store where you can buy a photo. You can even go through the checkout process and experience the purchase the way your customer would — just make sure you use your real email address on checkout so we can deliver your purchase to you.

Go artists! Go writers! Go web 2.0! Go Wazala!

Posts Tagged ‘digital products’

Augustine – An interview with the band

It’s Your Online Store – So You Store!

The Digital Merchant

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