Comic Scrapers: Comic Rack and Web Comic Du Jour
If you disapprove of your comics being used by comic scrapers, here’s another comic scraper to be aware of.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
If you disapprove of your comics being used by comic scrapers, here’s another comic scraper to be aware of.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Today’s topic has been kindly submitted by John Bogenschutz.
Imagine this scenario:
A reader reads one of your comics, finds it hilarious, and thinks it would make a great poster. You email her back and let her know that it will be in the store in about 2 weeks and that they can check back on your website for updates on the poster’s status. You get nineteen similar emails and you reply the same way each time.
How many, of those 20 people, are going to eventually end up buying the poster when it goes on sale? If you guessed 100% you are probably wrong. In fact, I can tell you very confidently that you are definitely wrong.
Now imagine this scenario:
A reader reads one of your comics, finds it hilarious, thinks it would make a great poster, sees an ad right next to the comic to buy the poster, and buys the poster. Nineteen more people do the exact same thing.
How many of the 20 people who just bought your poster just bought the poster?
Okay, that’s obviously a dumb question.
However, I have come to find that the impulse buy is one of my most useful tools to maximizing sales. It is more rare, than common, for people to come back and buy a poster that they originally wanted two weeks. By that time they have already moved on and started dating another poster.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
The deadline for the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship is Dec. 15. Applicants must be students at a 4-year college in the United States, Canada or Mexico who will be a Junior or Senior during the 2012-2013 academic year. Applicants do not have to be art majors to be eligible for this scholarship.
I’m still trying to get confirmation of what the winner will receive, but last year’s winner got the following:
To enter:
Mail to:
The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholoarship
National Cartoonists Society Foundation
341 N. Maitland Ave.
Suite 130
Maitland, FL 32751
Scott Kurtz became aware of Kachingle when he received the following tweet:
You can now kachingle PvPOnline | Player Vs. Player @pvponline. More at kachingle.com/m/4881
Kachingle is an organization that seeks to facilitate micropayments between users and the free information they access on the Web. Kachingle’s users — “Kachinglers” — place $5 a month into their Kachingle account, and they load a special extension into their browsers. At the end of each month, Kachingle adds up the number of days you visited each site you chose to support, and they distribute your five bucks proportionally among those sites. That is, after Kanchingle takes 15% off the top.
But Scott never registered his site with Kachingle. A “Kachingler” did. And Scott didn’t know his site was even involved until he had happened upon the notification — via Twitter!
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
As you know, the Friday after Thanksgiving officially kicks off the holiday shopping season for brick-and-mortar retailers. The following Monday, “Cyber Monday,” is the official launch for online sellers.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
As a member pointed out yesterday, you can create gift certificates through PayPal. However, the tutorial that he kindly linked to was specifically for users of the Big Cartel e-store software. Here are some more general instructions.
Find the form to create a Gift Certificate button, for your readers to buy and give gift certificates to your store, under “Merchant Services.” It will be listed under “Create Buttons.”
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Today the U.S. House of Representatives is debating H.R. 3261, commonly known as the Stop Online Pirating Act (SOPA). The bill seeks to modernize “criminal and civil statutes to meet new IP enforcement challenges.” Wikipedia has a good representation of the pros and the cons of the bill.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
63Squares is the organization that created 14Blocks, an application that tries to gauge the best times for you to tweet based on the previous habits of your followers. I’ve been using a premium version of 14Blocks for a while now, so I’m on their mailing list for new announcements. Their most recent offering is intriguing.
Pibster is an online application that boast the ability to monetize Twitter.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
We’ve been hitting a lot of mid-to-upper-level topics here lately, so I wanted to take an opportunity to do a post that addresses some concerns of our members who find themselves either starting out or withing the first two years of their webcomics. Here are ten tips that I would tell anyone starting out.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
David Lizerbram has posted an informative piece about some proposed changes in copyright law that would directly effect creative professionals. From the piece:
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.