TSHIRT ENTREPRENEUR ONLINE

The big draw back to using Zazzle as a PoD has always been the horrid shop structure that they implemented and the shopkeepers have had to deal with. It has made creating a storefront through their service tedious at best and given shopkeepers a lack of customization options. Well, this week that changed … sort of.

Zazzle has updated their category (formerly product lines) structure to allow shopkeepers to more easily manage what is going on within their shop and implemented the ability for these categories to be displayed on the main page instead of just single items. (more…)

By Ilene Johnson

So you want to ditch corporate America, work for yourself, be your own boss. You want your commute to be a trip to your downstairs office where you can work in your pajamas if you want to. Nice thought, but what on earth would you do to make this dream possible? (more…)

Everyone knows the saying about putting all of one’s eggs in one basket. With changes that have gone on over at Cafepress in the past year many shopkeepers got a hard lesson in how true that saying is. What is very important if you are going to rely on third parties to do a lot of your heavy lifting in the world of selling t-shirts online, is that you have to minimize your risk. You minimize your risk by hatching more eggs. (more…)

Zazzle is working hard to pick up the large cookies Cafepress has been dropping in it’s desire to stuff it’s face. Not wanting to let an opportunity to woo existing Cafepress shopkeepers over to their platform, Zazzle has stepped up and provided a lengthy (and often general I admit) post about their future plans. (more…)

Complaints about Zazzle as an alternative to Cafepress are plentiful but a lot of tshirt entrepreneurs put up with the failings because Zazzle picked up the ball Cafepress dropped with regards to volume bonuses. However Zazzle does appear to be working to make things better for people who want to open and run storefronts there. (more…)