Concrete Forest

Just looked at my recent sales numbers on my cafepress account and noticed some (all t-shirts) through ebay and amazon.com – that’s a new and welcome sales stream (small volume though).  I didn’t even know cp was selling my products through amazon and ebay…  Hopefully I’ll sell more including some mugs and stickers….

If you are looking to make a little extra money I really do recommend print-on-demand (POD) services like zazzle and cafepress.  CP isn’t as shopkeeper friendly as it used to be so you’ll have to decide for yourself whether the margin is worth your time…..  I used to make a lot more through CP until they changed their revenue sharing model and drastically reduced how much I make selling through their marketplace.  If you can drive your own sales in your own store then CP is still a great way to go.

Building on what we did for mugstate.com we’ve built teeshirtstate.com.

Both sites use Zazzle stores and are customized subsets filtering the Zazzle RSS feed to populate the sites.

Additionally we’ve created an index to allow the visitor to drill down into the products by state, and in some cases by city.

One of the things we did to try to help with SEO was incorporate the drill-down product selection information into the title and the keywords of the page.