Selling Books Direct With Shopify: The Minimum Viable Store
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In July 2022, I launched my online shop at www.CreativePennBooks.com. It’s built on Shopify’s eCommerce platform, and in this solo episode, I’ll explain why I built the store, my lessons learned, tips if you want to build your own, and how I intend to expand it over time. This episode is sponsored by my wonderful […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's the show. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:34.2 | And this is episode number 640 of the podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | And it is Thursday, the 11thth of August 2022 as I record this. In today's epic in-between episode, I'm talking about selling books |
| 0:47.2 | direct with Shopify, and specifically my minimum viable store approach. I'll go through what is selling direct and why sell |
| 0:57.1 | direct why I switched from pay hip to Shopify why a separate store creative penbooks.com |
| 1:04.0 | instead of woo commerce within my existing websites why Shopify rather than Kickstarter |
| 1:09.9 | the minimum viable store approach, software and |
| 1:14.1 | integrations, what else do you need? Options for drop shipping print on demand books with |
| 1:20.0 | LuluDirect and or BookVolt. app and why I made the choice I did. How does the money work? |
| 1:28.8 | What are the costs? |
| 1:29.8 | How do I get paid? |
| 1:31.2 | What about sales tax or VAT? |
| 1:34.2 | How long does the setup take? |
| 1:36.2 | What about support issues? |
| 1:37.5 | How time consuming is it? |
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