Well, it’s taken me a lot longer to get around to doing this then it should have, but I have finally started out. From here it’s going to be a slow process getting the other photos up and going, but as of right now, I have one panoramic photo for sale on my site. For a meager $65 you can have a 43.5 inch x 15.5 inch picture of Jay Cook State Park for your wall.

Oh, as a bonus, I am also offering the choice of paying with PayPal or Google Checkout. For your convenience.

Photo store is now open, and I’ll be adding more products over the next few weeks.

Go to the Photo Store.

Since I have a week or so of free time before I start up my glamorous summer job of putting electrical tape in boxes, I thought I would take a good look at my store sales and find out what the most popular shirts are. I also decided that it would be fun to see where my shirts are being sent off too. The first graph I came up with was a graph of the different shirts that we sell. For this graph I did not differentiate between the different colors of shirt or styles of shirt, but simply by the name/artwork of the shirt.

As expected, our “i 8 Sum Pi” Shirt was the most popular shirt we sell. I’m happy for this, because I think that is one of our better shirts. It is also the first shirt we came up with and decided to sell. It makes up about a 3rd of our shirt sales. I was happily supprised to find that our “Dante’s Hell Tour” shirt was the second fastest selling shirt. I was hoping this shirt would do well because it’s a really neat concept.  I was quite surprised to find the “FrodoLives.org” ware being the third most popular product sold. Frodolives.org is a rapidly failing concept site that I don’t have the time or resources to take care of. I haven’t given up onit completely, but the whole Lord of the Rings Movie fad is wearing off and any fan site needs a new angle. I’m pretty sure I haven’t found the angle yet. Next on the list is the Element Wall Clock, which is a sweet little chemistry based clock. And in the fifth place comes my “Vectors on a Plane” shirt. I haven’t sold many of these, but at least I sold some. I still have a few vector shirts I want to make, but I haven’t gotten around to it. Soon though, I might get a chance.

The next thing I took a look at was the location of where all my shirts were headed off too. The first thing I noticed was that I actually had a few shirts that had been sent to Canada. This made my day, I’m fully international now! Minnesota came up as the number one location of purchasing, but seeing we are located in Minnesota, that’s not surprising. California is a fairly close second on the list of locations, followed by Ohio and Flordia. I only hope that the people buying the shirts keep spreading the word.

Right now, I am looking ahead to the next few summer months.  My plan right now is to add more shirts to the store, and fix a few of the shirts that I have. I have a number of small tweaks to the inventory, a few shirt styles will probably be dropped, simply to keep the line of shirts a bit more standardized. We also have a list of new shirts that we have to make.

Over the next month, I also plan on setting up a bunch of new Photography products, from greeting cards, to Panoramic Photos in a new section of my online store. Hopefully this will pan out as expected and these products should start to become availible near the beginning of July. I hesitate to announce this in fear that it won’t get done, but giving myself a public deadline is a great motivator.

There are a lot of new things happening, so be sure to stay tuned.

Take it easy!