selling my work online
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Today I put a manual of policy and procedures on risk management for small non-profits for sale on my "professional" website. It took all of thirty minutes. I hope some small non-profit will find it useful. The action is happening here.
As a measure of risk management, I found a vendor called SimpleGoods that does all the credit-card processing and production of the asset for download. They work entirely on commissions, as does the credit-card processing company, Stripe. So I pay no fees forever until the orders start rolling in*. That's risk sharing, and that's what's needed in this example.
*Which, given my history of dismal results when it comes to making money, should be around the time the Earth is consumed by the Sun in a billion years.