We're looking for a few more people for an online Olympia marketplace.  The site will be similar in concept to buyolympia.com, but with no middleman between you and your customers.  If you have stuff to sell (be it stuff you've made, or stuff you just have), and you're looking for a regular place to sell it, then consider joining up. 

The basic idea is a bunch of shops operating independently of each other, but under one domain name and (maybe) one logo.  Like a big Olympia flea market.  You maintain your own site (including inventory, orders, etc) and keep all your money.  The costs to you are:

• $10 per year for hosting fees.
  
• Your own WA state business license and UBI number (costs $20 and takes about 5 minutes if you apply online).

• A yearly WA state B&O tax, which comes to about $4.71 for every thousand dollars the shop brings in.

The site is at olymarket.com, which will be a gateway for all the other shops.  My shop is here if you want to get an idea of how it would look.  I'll just be selling old prints at first.  Your shop would come with that same basic template, and I can offer quite a bit of help customizing it.  You don't need to know much about website development or have any coding skills at all.  The site is based on the Joomla content management system, for which there's plenty of free help available, but if you're crazy about Drupal or Wordpress or some other system you can easily install that instead.  If you already know how to create a website, you'll have ftp and file management access to make your shop look the way you want. 

I imagine the site will work best for people who have stuff to sell out of their homes, kind of on a part-time basis, but we can probably extend it to those who already have a business.  I think it would work particularly well for those who usually sell their creations at Arts Walk and would like a steady space to sell and exhibit from.  We're hoping to have a meeting in the next month or so to iron out the details.  We haven't decided yet where to cap the number of shops, so if you're interested let me know soon. larry@olymarket.com