Oronjo: Premium Content Marketplace

I first heard of Oronjo a few months ago. However, I didn’t get the chance to check it out until recently.

So, what is it? Oronjo is a site that offers to help you to make money online by selling articles and other premium content on your blog or site. And, here’s a quick overview of its pros and cons:

The Good Stuff

• It’s free. Yes, there’s no cost to signing up and hosting your premium content for sale at the moment. They did say that they might offer some services for a fee one day. But, for now, it’s all free. The only fee you’ll incur will be those that are charged by Paypal/Google checkout.
• You can sell different types of files. And, you can sell articles for a fee. Files accepted include: PDF, DOC, EXE, MP3, JPG, etc. So yes, you can sell just about anything – from ebooks and audio files to software and photos.
• They offer 2 payments systems: Paypal and Google Checkout. Although you can get paid by buyers using either one of these systems, you can only really receive your payment via Paypal.
• It offers some selling tools – from shop buttons to graphical banners. You can add them to your web pages or blog posts.
• It integrates with WordPress blogs. Yes, there’s an Oronjo WordPress Plugin that you can use to integrate your shop with your blog.
• It offers a way to sell for charity. If money making for a good cause is something you’d like to do, you can easily integrate your choice of charity as a place to send your payments.
• There’s a Feed Available. So, people who want to watch your items via a feedreader can do so.

The Not-So-Nice Bits

• No shop front. I would’ve really preferred if there was a place to highlight all items that are available for sale from a single seller. I didn’t see this.
• No auto preview. People like to have an idea of what they’re buying. So, a preview of a photo or a file would’ve been nice. In any case, you can still offer a preview on your blog or site.
• Only 2 currencies available so far. Trading is only available using US$ and EUR.

As you can see, I don’t see of a lot of negatives of Oronjo so far. But admittedly, these three bits of negatives are of high importance to me. So, personally, I’m not sure if Oronjo will be the best selling solution for me if I decide to go this route of selling premium content. Also, I still have yet to see this system in full action. It will be interesting to see what it’s like from a buyer’s point of view. And, how quickly sellers get their payments.

If you have any experience with Oronjo, I’d love to hear from you.