Saint Patrick’s Day Design Contest at Spreadshirt

Being Irish I wouldn’t want to miss out on a contest such as this: a Saint Patrick’s Day design contest. The prizes seem pretty lame but if you are making St. Paddy’s Day designs anyway why not. If you win you will get a nice bump from the Spreadshirt newsletter. See details below. We’d like you to create a St. Patrick Day design, submit it to the Spreadshirt Marketplace and tag... [Read more]

LOST Design Contest at Cafepress

As you may or may not know by now, Cafepress has an agreement with the ABC Network that will allow Cafepress shopkeepers to make fan merchandise and sell it in the store. This is pretty awesome for shopkeepers because, as I have mentioned before, your designs will have a ready made market. People are already searching for Lost merchandise so you just have to design some quality stuff. (Note: there... [Read more]

PayPal at CafePress

I believe that Cafepress had a PayPal option a long time ago and removed it. I forget the reasons they gave for removing it but anyway it’s back. Shopkeepers needn’t get too excited though because while they are considering using PayPal to pay shopkeeper earnings in the future they have been saying that since I joined. Anyway, there may be a possible sales bump from people who want to use... [Read more]

New features at Spreadshirt

I love to see the PODs make and effort to improve their stores and while these are minor improvements by Spreadshirt all improvements are welcome. Product Detail Page now features a tab info box, so your customers can view details about the product, printing methods, and the size chart!  Need more information or details?  Read more on the Forum! Digital Designs have option for grey thumbnail background: ... [Read more]

Donate Designs for Haiti Relief

Cafepress are looking for people to donate designs, the profits for which will be sent to UNICEF and used to help the people in need. For those of you that have been living under a rock Haiti, already one of the world’s poorest countries has had a devastating earthquake. Below is the information from Cafepress: CafePress is helping raise money for Haiti’s earthquake relief efforts. You can... [Read more]

Gym Bag Design Contest at Cafepress

Cafepress are holding another design contest and this time the task is to create a design for a gym bag with the theme “Get in shape”. WIN a $500 AMEX gift card plus a SIGG water bottle AND a Flip Mino video camera. Submissions will be accepted between December 18, 2009 and January 6, 2010. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years or... [Read more]

Printfection improve API tools for developers

Not being a developer myself I don’t really know what this means but from what I hear Printfection’s API is miles ahead of other POD stores. And now it seems to have gotten even better. Unfortunately thought, the thing that is really holding Printfection back is not the lack of tools because there are plenty, but rather the lack of an affiliate program. If Printfection had an affiliate... [Read more]

The Smithsonian on Cafepress

The Smithsonian Institute has just joined Cafepress and this is a great opportunity for affiliates as there is a ready-built market and huge brand recognition. I am Irish so I don’t really know much about the Smithsonian but I believe they are historical curators or such like. Anyway, I thought I’d let you know so you can add this brand to your affiliate sites. It should at least pull some... [Read more]

Cafepress Items on Ebay?

Cafepress items being sold on eBay below list price It has come to the attention of several Cafepress shopkeepers that some Twilight inspired tees produced by Cafepress using designs created by Cafepress shopkeepers are on sale on eBay. This is an excerpt of a post by Cafepress shopkeeper, Hope, who noticed her designs being sold on eBay for prices lower than she charges. I found a lot of Twilight... [Read more]

Cafepress puts shop link back in Marketplace

I have no idea why Cafepress has done this or even when but from what I hear it is a recent development. It wasn’t all that long ago that the link was removed. To be honest I wouldn’t be all that surprised if it were taken down again soon. You can see the image below to find out where the link is. There are two similar links on the page. The one on the left is to see all the shopkeepers... [Read more]

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