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Just another update about how Cafepress is doing with increasing marketplace sales for their shopkeepers. So far, not so good. So far this month Marketplace sales are tracking to be only 97.6% of last month. I’ll call that essentially a “push” for now. But remember, we were promised that these changes would make us money … which is not conceivable if we are now making less per sale and not making more sales. (more…)

Ok, someone is smoking something over at Cafepress today. In their asinine quest to “test” prices in their marketplace instead of relying on those of us that had already done this and optimized our prices, Cafepress has made bumper stickers (10″ x 3″) sell for $3.00 and oval stickers (5″ x 4″) sell for $4.00. (more…)

If you are a t-shirt entrepreneur, the question on your mind should be, “What is July?” Other than it is obviously a month, there are certain events happening in July that you could use to promote your products IF you have products that fit into certain themes.

Of course July 4th is the Independence Day here in the United States, but July also has the other following notable events:

July 10: Teddy Bear Picnic Day
July 14: MLB All Star Game
July 19: Hot Dog Day
July 20: Anniversary of the first moon landing
July is National Adopt a Cat Month
July is Candy Month

Just some ideas for those of you with designs that fit into these categories. Use these events and more to help draw people to your site and generate interest in your wares.

Because based on the emails asking me what I think is going on over at Cafepress you do. In the wake of all of the recent, and very substantial changes at Cafepress there are a lot of questions as to what exactly is going on in the offices over there. Why would a company upset so many of the people that made them so successful? Why would they seem to not care that they are flooding over to other PoDs and uploading their same designs there and only increasing CP’s competition? Why announce such major changes with only 30-days notice when such changes can drastically affect revenue for shopkeepers who already have business plans 12-months out that require a certain amount of cash flow each month? (more…)

If you are running CPShop to sell your wares off site from Cafepress, and honestly who wouldn’t be, and maintain your commissions you should be aware that the recent changes at CP have broken your install and sales through your CPShop will be at the new Marketplace prices AND commission!

There is however a fix to this which appears to be working and was posted by oph3lia on the marty.net message boards. The thread is found here.

Basically append this code:

*||||<input type=hidden name=fromsearch value="yes">||||<input type=hidden name=fromsearch value="no">

to your cpshop.cgi.images file then clear your cache.

Everything should work fine until Marty gets around to releasing an update.