Cafepress Anti-Valentine’s Day Design Contest
Cafepress are holding an anti-Valentine’s Day design contest that is different from the contest held by Spreadshirt, which I mentioned a few days ago, in several ways. Of course the obvious difference is that they are looking for Anti-Valentine’s Day designs at Cafepress while Spreadshirt are just looking for a Valentine’s Day design. Another point [...]
POD: Wordans
Yes, another POD review. I am a POD shopkeeper after all, so these things do interest me. The guys from Wordans contacted me to let me know about their site and ask me to do a review. Reviewing a POD is not like reviewing a regular t-shirt store. You really have to get in there [...]
The Washington Post on Cafepress
Sales of pro-Obama t-shirts have been so great this past year that I guess they even be comparable to sales of anti-Bush t-shirts in the past 8 years or so. It’s good to dwell on positivity though. In Cafepress the Washington Post have a shop where, on top of some pretty crap t-shirts, you can [...]
New POD: Ninja Zoo
There seem to be new PODs opening up almost as often as T-Shirt Competition sites these days (slight exaggeration). I think breaking into the POD market will be much tougher though as the service expected from a POD is huge. Zazzle and Cafepress which seem to dominate the market already provide so many features and [...]
New POD – Yerzies
The guys at Yerzies contacted me recently to let me know about the launch of this new POD. I love to see some competition as this can create more opportunities for POD shopkeepers like myself. I currently have stores at both Cafepress and Zazzle, two of the POD big dogs. Because of this, when I [...]
Cafepress Revamped
In the last few months there has been a lot of seemingly minor activities happening at Cafepress. I didn’t even guess that they were in the process of redesigning the whole web site but that is what they have done. I think it looks great. The site is clean and easy to navigate. The old [...]
Zazzle Community Giving
I came across this when I was adding a new Zazzle coupon in the forum. The coupon was a special coupon for only one store which is interesting in itself but when I went to that store I saw the little logo at the top right of the store. It says Approved Member of the [...]
Talk about crap!
I really don’t think that this is a case of if they didn’t do it someone else would. I mean there is crap and there is crap but this takes the biscuit. Why someone would actually go around photographing what I can only hope is dog poo is a mystery in itself but then to [...]
Fukuda ASCII T-Shirt
It seems that Japanese PODs are picking up on the fact that there is money to be made in political tees. In Japan the latest Prime Minister has announced his resignation which was no big surprise really and in a press conference he said 「あなたとは違うんです。」 which translates as “I’m different from you.” I guess this [...]
Zazzle Gets More Attractive
Zazzle gets much more attractive with a new volume bonus system. It’s almost hard to believe that just a short while after Cafepress screws their shopkeepers out of chunks of their VB that Zazzle is providing what seems to be a much better one. I never believed that Cafepress’ story about not making money from [...]