TSHIRT ENTREPRENEUR ONLINE

Well, I am sure that most of the bigger shopkeepers, myself included, are not happy. Cafepress announced yesterday that premium shops would no longer be able to hold unlimited designs and were going to be instead limited to 500 sections.

The saving grace is that this applies to new premium shops and older shops are being grandfathered in with some additional room to grow.  But not enough room for some of the shops and plans I personally had. (more…)

By Avril Harper

Out of copyright prints are in high demand especially if mounted ready to frame. Some subjects are more popular than others, notably dogs and cats, sporting subjects especially golf and cricket, topographical (named place) subjects.

I’ve seen really high prices paid for well illustrated items on eBay and also on some outside web sites. (more…)

Heads up on shopkeeper discussion tonight over at Cafepress.

Shopkeeper Discussion: Perfect Product DescriptionsHi Everyone!When it comes to SEO, it’s been said many times before, “content is king.” That’s why it’s important to have keyword rich description written for all of your product, section and shop descriptions. Join us for a Shopkeeper discussion: Perfect Product Descriptions. Discuss with other Shopkeepers the key to writing descriptions guaranteed to get you noticed and ranking high in search engines.

Can’t make it to chat? Email your questions to cpchat@cafepress.com

Hosts: Angela Low & Britta Avila - The Community Team & You - The Community
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm PT
Find out what time in your Time Zone here
Where: CP Chatroom

Never really sure how useful these are to advanced and veteran users but for people new to the t-shrit economy they sure don’t hurt to attend.

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J.J. Jackson is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. and Cafepress “Top Shopkeeper”. He has been selling t-shirts on-line since 2004 and is the owner of the T-Shirt Entrepreneur, a site dedicated to helping people get involved in the T-shirt Economy. He is also the owner of Funny When Wet T-shirts, American Infidel Tshirts, Uber Gamer T-shirts as well as many other online t-shirt and gift stores.

Cafepress is introducing gift certificates.  But not for shopkeepers to sell.  Seems like a flaw in the slaw there if you ask me.

Gift Certificate 1.0 Details:
  Buyers will be able to purchase Gift Certificates from these 4 places:
  1. A banner on the CafePress homepage (this is not a permanent banner, it will be used intermittently for promotion, holidays, etc.).
  2. A text link in the left-hand navigation bar of the Marketplace.
  3. A banner on the “failed search result” page.
  4. A text link in the footer of all CafePress “branded” pages (These are the pages that have a green bar that runs along the bottom of pages, such as CafePress Corporate pages and Basic Shops. Actually, there’s one at the bottom of this page).

Gift Certificates will not be available for sale in Premium Shops.

During the Gift Certificate purchase process the buyer can add a personalized message to the recipient.

They come in many denominations, starting at $10 and going all the way up to $1,000.

Purchased Gift Certificates are delivered to the recipient via email. See screen shot 3 and 4 below.

Our Unique Gift This Cart™ feature allows a shopper to pick products they think the recipient will like and send a gift certificate that features those products. The recipient can then choose to buy those items (and choose the right sizes) or pick different items. Note - this feature will NOT be present in Premium Shops. See screen shot 4 below.

Seems like an end run around their own shopkeepers. I personally cannot understand why they are not going to be allowing shopkeepers to sell gift certificates through their premium shops. It makes no sense. I certainly won’t be promoting them knowing this.

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J.J. Jackson is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. and Cafepress “Top Shopkeeper”. He has been selling t-shirts on-line since 2004 and is the owner of the T-Shirt Entrepreneur, a site dedicated to helping people get involved in the T-shirt Economy. He is also the owner of Funny When Wet T-shirts, American Infidel Tshirts, Uber Gamer T-shirts as well as many other online t-shirt and gift stores.

This is the second in a line of daily outages and maintenances within just a couple weeks:

Hello Shopkeepers,

We will be performing system maintenance over a few nights starting Sunday evening.

Sunday, November 11th - Maintenance will begin at 11 pm Pacific Standard Time, and is scheduled to last approximately 1 hour. During this time the CafePress website will not be available.

Monday, November 12th - Maintenance will begin at 11 pm Pacific Standard Time, and is scheduled to last approximately 2 hours. During this time the CafePress website may not be available.

Tuesday, November 13th - Maintenance will begin at 11 pm Pacific Standard Time, and is scheduled to last approximately 3 hours. During this time the CafePress website will not be available.

If any of the above schedule changes we will revise and update this page

We apologize in advance for an inconvenience.