Founder Updates - Dec 6, 2024
Celebrating the community
Hi all,
Welcome to the 158 people who’ve signed up since we last sent this newsletter. We’re excited you’re here! We are Chris and James, the founders of Lyric, and we send out these updates weekly. If you’re new here, you can read why we started Lyric.
Here’s what is happening…
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
Thanks to all of you who nominated products for the gift guide, and congrats to those of you who were selected. If you weren’t selected, we are really grateful for your submissions, and we hope you’ll submit your products again during a future campaign! Hundreds of products were submitted for the guide, and we're happy to have worked with a couple of artists on Lyric to narrow down the list to 44 great products across 22 sellers.
The gift guide campaign blew our expectations out of the water. We were amazed at how many sales were made, how many new subscribers came in to your shops, and the buzz around the event. Lyric subsidized some credits for buyers, and even accounting for those credits, it was a massive sales weekend, bigger than any week to-date.
It was fun to see brand new customers finding Lyric and buying great products, but even more fun to see that you all brought in your customers and promoted others in the community to help others makes sales.
Lyric is founded on community support, and we were delighted to see it pay off in a big way with this holiday campaign, putting money into your pockets and helping your customers find beautiful work to bring into their lives. THANK YOU.
WHAT SHIPPED
Community on Upgrade
Speaking of community, we wanted to make communities more legible on Lyric. How do you as an artist share the best work of your friends and peers? We’ve retooled the recommendations features, and now you can see your community on your site’s community page. This page shows off the people you recommend and helps your audience dive in to the work of other people in your orbit.
We are continuing to explore ways to make the communities on Lyric feel more powerful and useful. One additional change that shipped this week was a change to the Lyric homepage (https://lyric.store), now a beautiful page where communities on the platform are shown to new visitors. We hope to continue pushing the envelope of what’s possible here — we want Lyric to be a place where many unique communities can flourish.
Banners 🚩
Add banners to your homepage with special announcements, like free shipping, special offers, or new product lines. You can set a banner in Settings > Messages to Customers
Order attribution
When you view order details, you can now see how the order came in to your store, so you know when Lyric is delivering value for you.
UPDATE OF THE WEEK
We love Nicole’s hand-painted rosemaling! So cozy, indeed.
That’s all from us this week. Wishing you the best as you continue with holiday sales and the giving season!
Chris & James