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@ ɅGOᏒɅ Marketplace
2025-04-13 08:57:10This is another experiment, let's see how it goes! As you maybe know, we have been selling some SN merch online, it's a great way to promote and generate more awareness for the ~AGORA Marketplace but mostly for SN itself.
But what exactly is a shopfront?
A shopfront, or storefront, is the facade or entryway of a retail store located on the ground floor or street level of a commercial building, typically including one or more display windows. A storefront functions to attract visual attention to a business and its merchandise.[^1]
In our case, it's an ecommerce facade, the entryway of an online store or web shop located in a crowded area of the Wild West Web here on SN. A reference to link external products and services that can be updated and maintained to keep your stacker' subscribers updated. It aims to display a list of item and provides an direct external link for the visitor to click, visit, and eventually buy or subscribe to the product or service he or she was lurking at.
How can we do it in the ~AGORA? Well, as simple as posting a discussion! The idea is to use the functionalities that SN currently offers in the best and more efficient way for this use case. With this exploration, we just define different contents to fill the inputs fields already available. In a nutshel, we publish a post, with the only difference that the content in the text/description field will be descriptive of our products and services. In addition, we use each comments to define an item with the relative image(s), description and link. Here a breakdown:
- Write a new post in the ~AGORA
2 Make sure
[SHOPFRONT]is included in the title together with the name of the Business (like a lightsign) - Introduce yourself or your business, values, products and services in the text description
- Publish it
- Write a commet for each product or service with title, info, image(s) and a link to learn more or buy. A template for comments/items could look something like: ```
Title
Description:
Price:Buy Now ``` 6. That's it!The coiol thing is that you can just delete comments/items and add new ones as you wish. That's how a sn "post" could become a simple shopfront platform, a catalog you ca easily maintain and update to connect with stackers and upsell your products and services.
I did few tests, and I'll use this post to continue aggregate new shopfronts that will be published around here. Below the first few live examples:
[^1]: From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storefront
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/942025
- Write a new post in the ~AGORA
2 Make sure