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		<title>Zazzle Gives Users Semi-Useful Categories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/zazzle-gives-users-semi-useful-categories</link>
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		<title>So You Want to Earn Money Online and Work For Yourself?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/so-you-want-to-earn-money-online-and-work-for-yourself-2</link>
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		<title>Hatch More Eggs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/hatch-more-eggs</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Always A Bigger Fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At first I was going to title this post, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  Then I thought that was too cliche.  So my next proposed title was, "Cafepress Gets A Whacking For A Change."  Then it was, "What Goes Around Comes Around."  And then it was, "Cafepress Get's Hit By The Karma Bug."  But none of those seemed to work.  So then it hit me and I remembered the scene from Star Wars Episode I where Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jar Jar Binks and Qui-Gon Jinn were trolling around under the waters of Naboo.  Suddenly they are attacked by a "HUGE GOOBERFISH!" that grabs hold of their vessel and starts having them for lunch.  Then, just as suddenly, another sea monster appears, rips the Gooberfish from the back of their sub and saves them from certain death.  At which point Qui-Gon wisely mutters, "There's always a bigger fish."]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/theres-always-a-bigger-fish</link>
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		<title>Cafepress Taking More Control Of &#8220;Contributor&#8221; Designs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not really certain what to make of the latest announcement from Cafepress regarding even more changes to their terms and conditions of their Seller Services.  Here is what the email explicitly says:

<blockquote>* CafePress may help determine what products your designs will be available on in the CafePress Marketplace and may automatically add your designs to additional products for you. For example, if a customer wants your design on a sweatshirt, and you don't offer a sweatshirt we can add your design to a sweatshirt.

* To improve the printing quality, CafePress may automatically modify your designs. For instance we may clean up JPG artifacting, adjust colors for optimal printing on different printers and products, and adjust placement on different products.</blockquote>]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/cafepress-taking-more-control-of-contributor-designs</link>
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		<title>Cafepress Is Stagnating &#8211; Not Sending Out More Checks Month To Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been meaning to run these numbers for a while but with work being rather intense on getting products loaded up on other PoD's it has been a long time coming.  Anyway, what I did was pull down the data on check numbers from month to month sent to me from Cafepress to see if they were growing their business or not.  Obviously the intent of Cafepress is to either send out more checks because that means they are having more successful shopkeepers.  They could also want to send out bigger checks as that means that those shop keepers they have are hence making them more money since commissions go up based on numbers of sales.]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/cafepress-is-stagnating-not-sending-out-more-checks-month-to-month</link>
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		<title>Marketplace Sales Stagnant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/marketplace-sales-stagnant</link>
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		<title>WTF?  Oval Stickers More Than Bumper Stickers In CP&#8217;s Marketplace?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/wtf-oval-stickers-more-than-bumper-stickers-in-cps-marketplace</link>
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		<title>What Is July?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/what-is-july</link>
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		<title>So You Want My Opinion Do You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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?  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?]]></description>
		<link>http://tshirtentrepreneur.com/archives/so-you-want-my-opinion-do-you</link>
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