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CafePress customer service phone number: 877
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CafePress.com
CafePress
Learning Center - Tips and tutorials on how to successfully market
your CafePress shop: design, shop creation and management, marketing,
etc
CafePress Tutorials --
Step-by-step guides: Creating Images for Black Garments;
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tutorial, PaintShopPro Tips
Cafe
Press PR Learning Center --How to's on PR and marketing: press
releases, newsletters, tagging images, blogs.
CafePress
templates for creating graphics -- many products have specific proportions;
templates help you design to achieve the best result.
CafePress Chats --
Staff members hold live online chats with shopkeepers on a variety of
topics
Intellectual
Property - FAQ on allowed and prohibited content, copyrights, etc.
Official
CafePress Forum - Where you'll find official anouncements from
CP and the CP-sponsored shopkeeper-to-shopkeeper assistance community.
GreatGear --
Yahoo group for CafePress and other T-shirt shopkeepers
GreatGear Blog - GreatGear shopkeepers
present new designs
CafePress Third-Party Tools & Resources
CafePress shopkeepers have used their talents and knowledge
to create and share tools and resources to share with their fellow shopkeepers.
Templates
by FoxVox --Great shop templates at a reasonable price
by shopkeeper Kristen
Fox.
Unofficial CafePress
Premium Shop Owner's Guide & FAQ - Although the site says it's a bit
out of date (see note at top) it still has a lot of terrific information
on setting up a premium shop. By Kristen
Fox.
Squidoo Lens of CafePress
resources
More
CP Resources on Squidoo by Shopkeeper Jillian Renner
CPCoupons.com --latest CP
sales/promos to post in your shop
CPCoupon.com --
a different site offering latest CP sales and automatically
changing coupons
to post in your shop, so
you never have to remember to change coupon banners.
Success
With CafePress --
only book of its kind, takes you step by step.
CPShop --
A script to more fully customize your shop and integrate it into
your own website. Create by CafePress programmer Marty McKolskey.
Cafescripts --
Another script to customize your shop
T-ShirtModels.com --
T-shirt models to give your shop that "peopled" look
CafeGrabber --Creates
a Froogle feed so your products appear on Froogle (shareware)
CafePress
Shopkeeper Income Calculation Spreadsheet - A free tool (Excel
spreadsheet.) that you can use to calculate your completed sales,
pending sales, affiliate sales (selling others' wares) and the
bonus based
on your non-affiliate sales.(By Teesed.com)
CafeToolbox - Froogle and Google
Base feed generator, puts your CP products into Froogle in one bulk upload.
Now free.
Instant
Cafe Feeder - Free feed application. Windows only. By Adam.
Search
CP - Put a search on your own shop. Subscription. By Adam.
CafeWish -
Categorize your shop the way you want instead of the CafePress default.
By Teesed.com
CafeAds - Instantly
create ads for your products. Approximately 1 out of every 10 ad images
will use developer's affiliate PID in the url instead of yours. By Teesed.com
Tips and Tricks for
T-shirt Entrepreneurs - Blog o' tricks by Fricka of The
T-Shirt Nexus.
CafePress
Sales -
Drag to your toolbar or bookmarks to instantly check your sales report.
By Adam.
Peon Productions - Custom templates for your CP premium shop.
Affiliate-Related Tools
CafePress now offers an affiliate program where website
owners or bloggers (and that include CP shopkeepers) can sell the products
of their fellow shopkeepers and earn commission on each sale.
APChecker -
Toolbar tool that will tell you if another shop is part of the affiliate
program. By Adam.
CP
Page Builder -
Creates html for CafePress products and designs. Useful for blogs,
affiliate
stores, email campaigns, myspace profiles, and more. By Jen
Goode
YourDataFeed
Page Builder -
Like the CP Page Generator, it creates html of Cafepress products for
affiliate purposes but uses the Commission Junction pid. This is the
one to use if you joined CP after May 2007. By Jen
Goode
AP
Link Button - This tool will enable you to easily generate the
html link code you need to promote both individual products and individual
sections of a CafePress store. By Jen
Goode
Make a Link -
make a custom link for the cafepress affiliate program using your commission
junction id. By Jen
Goode
RSS
Feed Creator - Create an RSS displays for several uses: 1) So that
visitors or affiliates (people who are selling our products via CafePress'
affiliate program) may subscribe to be alerted of your newest/most
popular products; keeps
you up to date on other shopkeepers' new products in topics of interest
to
you;
allows
you
to create
feeds of products to affiliate to and add it to
blogs,
webpages,
etc (ie., you are selling other shopkeepers' products and with this
tool automatically update a webpage). By Jen
Goode.
PrestoGifto - Instant affiliate
shop-creator with easy drag and drop interface. No charge
at present but does take commission on every 5th sale. They may introduce
a subscription
version.
PopShops - Another affiliate
shop creator by the developers of PrestoGifto, but includes the ability
to add non-CafePress affiliated merchandise. From free to $30/mo, depending
on level of service used.
GraphicWorks -
A simple graphics shareware utility for CafePress that was designed for
people new to graphics production. Shareware but free demo available. Windows
only. By Nick Lilavois.
GIMP -- Free image manipulation
program for photo retouching, image composition and image
authoring. For Windows, MacOSX, Unix.
Adobe PhotoShop
Elements --
Stripped down version of PhotoShop that is still loaded with superb features
and sells for
much less. If you look online you will find it for an even lower price
than at Adobe.
Wufoo -- not a graphics
tool, but an easy form building tool.
Color Scheme Generator - helps find complimentary color combinations for
webpages
Statcounter - tracks
up to 100 pageviews for free.
Sitemeter - tracks
up to 100 unique visits for free.
CrazyEgg - statistics via heat map,
so you can see what visitors like to click on.
GetClicky - "easy, fun, powerful, and drop dead gorgeous."
Sample Shops
Whether you use a CafePress ready-made template or create your own to match your website, your shop can be attractive and professional. Here are some samples.
Using the CafePress templates with or without some customization:
http://www.cafepress.com/pokerplayertees
http://www.cafepress.com/poker4all
http://www.cafepress.com/lilbabyshop
http://www.cafepress.com/dragonflytheme
http://www.cafepress.com/koncepts
http://www.cafepress.com/addictedtotees
http://www.cafepress.com/matissimo
http://www.cafepress.com/cashmerekitty/
http://www.cafepress.com/kippygo
http://www.cafepress.com/dogs_of_war
Totally Customized Shops that use scripts and their own templates:
EvisionArts Shopping Portal -example of several custom shops within one portal
Webomator (Celtic Art &Retro Futuristic Design)
Other Print-On-Demand Companies
(Links open in new browser windows)
ImageKind - New site for on-demand posters and prints for Artists and Photographers
Spreadshirt - Use vectors files as well as flock (velvety) and flex (shiny) printing
Good Storm - (now acquired by Zazzle)
Red Bubble - in Australia
E-Shirt (used to be Art Apart)
Comboutique -- in Europe, with French, UK and German portals (click on the little flags at the top)
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updated June 2007
For inquiries about the Set Up Shop course, private consulting or shop design and set-up, please email
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