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Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

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Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#31
post #16

MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS TO BUY THIS Put a gigantic button under that sock graphic that says: "Sign up now for $11/mo" I want to sign up for your service, but I almost closed the page thinking that you hadn't launched yet. The only thing that kept me looking was the gallery. Since it looks like you've been doing this, I /kept/ looking for the sign up link. You need ot change this immediately! Also put a price on this thi…

I thought the large Buy Now button was not that hard to see :)

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#32
post #7

Design feedback: Your 'buy now' and 'learn more' buttons on the homepage are very hard to see. They need to stand out. Make them bigger and bolder, or change the color (red would stand out much more and still fit into your overall theme), or fade out the background slightly. Or, ideally, do more than one of those things. You really don't want those buttons to be hard to see. Cost and details of what you get should be…

Wow, I didn't even know they were there until reading this comment. Also, the links to your blog posts are "not found."

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#33
- Like other commenters said -- make "Buy Now" and "Learn more" more prominent on the homepage.

- I'd also feature the price right there -- "We deliver a pair of socks once a month for $11."

- Feature pricing on "About" and "Subscribe" pages.

- On Subscribe pages, where do I enter payment info? Why page doesn't have SSL? (I assume payment info is submitted on the next page, but it is not clear -- maybe change "Submit" to "Next: enter payment info")

- I'd change "Write/Contact Us" at the top to "Buy Now".

Edit: formatting

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#34

I think there's a big opportunity here on the gift front too- everyone gets socks from a relative at some point! Let relatives buy subscriptions (the socky gift that keeps giving).

I had this thought, as well. Let me buy someone a year of SOTM as a gift.

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#35
post #32
post #7

Design feedback: Your 'buy now' and 'learn more' buttons on the homepage are very hard to see. They need to stand out. Make them bigger and bolder, or change the color (red would stand out much more and still fit into your overall theme), or fade out the background slightly. Or, ideally, do more than one of those things. You really don't want those buttons to be hard to see. Cost and details of what you get should be…

Wow, I didn't even know they were there until reading this comment. Also, the links to your blog posts are "not found."

Same here! Red would be an option, but consider putting several links throughout the page too. There mustn't be a time when you don't see an (obvious) link to buy your product.

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#36
Where are the standard social buttons? You launched without a FB page?! When I post a link to your page (copy/paste) to FB the two graphics that are available for thumbnails are "learn more" and "buy now". Those thumbnail graphics may be as useful in pulling in customers as the copy text, but are wasted here.

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#39
This is a great idea and your descriptions and illustrations are hilarious.

A couple things - on the subscription form you might need to provide some details about what countries you can ship to (The "State", "Zipcode", and lack of a "Country" input box implies that it's only for U.S. addresses but it should be explicit).

I was also unclear on whether subscribers would be charged for shipping costs (is it included? or extra? If it's in addition to the $11/mo, can you provide rates?).

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#40
There was an article about this recently, rise of weird socks in the Valley, hah found it: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/fashion/in-silicon-valley-...

I think it would be good to put a link to this and similar news items on your home page. Fashion trends are mostly stampedes, many people would buy your socks if they know people from FB and Twitter are wearing them, i.e. it's a new trend.

It has links to your competitors but I think the trend validation is worth it.

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