T-Shirt Fullfillment
Cafepress is Down - Cafepress Site Updates (cafepresssiteupdates.com)
While no internet company wants or plans to have a site outage or performance issues, they always happen. The big issue is how do you communicate with your customers or members when your site is down. Cafepress has just launched a Cafepress Status page that is hosted off CP for customers or members to view [...]
Zazzle Templates (EZ Templates)
A few weeks ago Zazzle announced a tool to offer easier customization of designs. Zazzle’s new system called EZ Templates are supposed to be easy to set up and make it really easy for customers to personalize a design with their own text. They provided the examples of being able to add a name to [...]
Spreadshirt US is now available in French (Français)
Spreadshirt announced that they will be offering the U.S. Spreadshirt web site in French for all those French-Canadians. What is crazy about this is that in the Spreadshirt Marketplace the design titles can be viewed in French. So somehow those users who submitted design titles in English are translated to French. Seems pretty cool but [...]
Donating Profits & Social Responsibility (Cafepress, Goodstorm, Zazzle and Spreadshirt)
Companies choose to donate for many reasons but usually its either based on customer demand for increased social responsibility or an owners passion for a particular social issue (less common and frequently more transparent). As a result of corporate donations a company can have increased product demand as a result of “social responsibility” driven marketing. [...]
Cafepress Chat - Shop Organization (8/28/07)
Cafepress is holding another online chat for Shopkeepers centered around shop organization. Many shopkeepers stores grow significantly over time and there is not always a plan at the stores beginning. The Shopkeeper chat on August 28, 2007 (4-5pm PST) will have details on how to manage your navigation, show products your customers want to [...]
Printfection API
In the Printfection Forums and on last months Shop Keeper commission checks, Printfection announced that they are looking for people to provide input and maybe test a new API that they are developing. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
Cafepress Voice - Shopkeeper Feedback Committees
A few months ago Cafepress.com created Cafepress Voice committees to provide direct feedback to Cafepress staff on products, quality, site features and more. Forums and blogs are a great way to maintain communication with your community members but sometimes you really need to work with a smaller more focused group and CP Voice meets [...]
Printfection is Growing (with growing pains)
The rapid addition of products and designs to the relatively new Printfection.com started to bring the site to a hault. In May, Printfection hit their first 1 million products (good job!). In July, pages started to load really slow and sometimes take 30-60 seconds before the products would load (even off high speed DSL). This [...]
Zazzle to change commission structure
A recent post on the Zazzle forums suggests that they will be making a change to their commission structure soon. The comment was by Josh of Zazzle: “P.S. Get ready for more over the next few weeks - some we’ve hinted at (being able to set your royalty), and many more we can’t even talk [...]
Custom Organic T-Shirts - Zazzle, Cafepress, Spreadshirt
More and more t-shirt companies are offering organic t-shirts. American Apparel, who is one of the major t-shirt distributors has offered organic shirts for many years. These organic shirts were first picked up by Cafepress.com and later by Zazzle.com and Spreadshirt.com. Recently Spreadshirt.com started offering Organic t-shirts and according to the Spreadshirt blog the [...]
