Bay Life is to launch an ecommerce based web platform in late November, ready for the local Christmas market in Pevensey and the Bay. The platform will promote local products in the arts, history and craft industries that are beginning to emerge in the locality.—Bay Life, 23 September 2016
The ecommerce platform will feature local art and crafts, together with merchandise related to the 2,000 year story of Pevensey and its rich history. as well as a promotion of events related to the emerging ‘local craft industries’
Called “Wish You Were Here”, the Pevensey Bay online platform will feature the work of 12 local artists initially.
Planned as a kind of shop window on the world of products available in Pevensey and Pevensey Bay, the online platform will provide an opportunity for artists and crafts people to promote their work. Initially the 12 artists invited to be part of the project, will see up to three products that will be displayed for each artist.
The platform will provide a series of windows on the local world enabling people to offer a short bio, set of product descriptions and details about where to buy the products.
Visitors to the platform from outside the area, planning a stay in Sussex will also be able to see where to buy products related to the history of the area, from the famous A2 poster of the Pevensey Pageant that took place in Pevensey in 1908, attended by 25,000 people, to the poster advertising the sale of the “Monster Pevensey Whale” from November 1865.
The new web platform will also include a series of 10 postcards available for people to purchase, based on the artboard feature in the local broadsheet newspaper, Bay Life the Journal.
The set of 10 postcards, titled “Wish You Were Here” will feature the work of 10 local artists.
Dianne Dear, publisher of Bay Life said, “this is the next natural stage in the development of Bay Life. With the online platform visited by up to 500 people a day and the monthly broadsheet newspaper selling in local newsagents, we obviously have a brand in Bay Life that is being seen.
“Adding an ecommerce platform to our stable of services seems like the obvious next natural step”.
“As well as giving local people the opportunity to promote their artwork and products, it will mean that we will be ready wiling and able to promote the story of the Pevensey Whale, when it becomes national news in July 2017 with the launch of the new museum in Cambridge”
Further information about how to be part of the product launch of the online ecommerce platform “Wish You Were Here”, is available .
It is hoped that the platform will be launched in the third week in November 2016.
