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Teasing and tasting: Selling on CybaSumo without giving away the store

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

We’re working around the clock here at CybaSumo to get things ready so you can start selling your music, photography, video, art, and writing online to your friends on Facebook, MySpace, and everywhere else they go.

Just create a CybaSumo store and you’ve got a widget (an interactive shopping site in a box - see below) that you can put anywhere.

One of the issues that a lot of artists online have had is how to sell without giving away the store. You want to give people a sense of what they’re buying, but you don’t want give it away for free so that you can make some money!

CybaSumo Widget - Preview featureCybaSumo to the rescue. When you upload your music or video, CybaSumo lets you define part of it as a tease or a taste of your product that anyone can listen to or watch. You can set how much or how little you want people to be able to see for free. CybaSumo can even auto-generate your previews for you.

The same goes for photography. Give your customers a lower-resolution image as a preview - and you can even embed a watermark that’s not there in the full-sized version.

The best part? Customers can preview your stuff no matter where they are, right inside your widget. So they don’t have to leave your profile page on Facebook or MySpace to - even if they’re on Facebook looking at your widget. Then it’s just one click to buy.

Cybasumo’s previews turn window-shoppers into paying customers. Look for this feature on our site, launching soon.