I am looking in to a referral program as well. I will release additional info when I get it all sorted out.
I know this is a common way to attract more buyers.. if you sell diet ebooks or some other commercial product. This is a collectors item, I don't think you'll get way more promotion than you have now. Besides, you take the risk that your shop url will appear on obscure spam sites. All for the clicks and sales.
Maybe instead of a referral system you can create a discount for your existing customers. For example a discount on their second order/coin, and a bigger discount on their third order/coin. A lifetime discount. In this way you can activate the real Guldencoin fans to buy more coins at once or placing a second or third order in the near future.
Let the word of mouth do its job..
Word of mouth was my original intention with the referral program. I was just thinking it might help spread the word if I offered a discount/free coin to people who helped get the word out. It's not a necessity at this point though.
I don't mind the pace of the sales, but I want to make sure I reach a wider audience so the coins aren't all held by a handful of people. I was thinking that I need to get the site translated to Dutch as well. The store system has an easy translation, but I need to get the product description translated as well. And better pictures lol.
I agree though that this is a collectors item. It's not like the original casacious coins that were traded. I see these as being something you stick on your desk in a display stand, and in 3-4 years they're worth a considerable amount of money, in both NLG and in terms of collectibility. I just hope the community sees them the same way.
-Fuse