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Laura talks about how CafePress SEO such a large website and mentions a little bit about the re-brand and its reaction among customers and the community.
Watch the video here.

Free shipping is becoming a painful imperative for all e-commerce sites. Three-quarters of online shoppers said in a comScore survey that they would shop elsewhere if a site did not offer free shipping, and nearly all sites offered it for at least some purchases.
Quote: Web Sites Wage Holiday Price Wars
Zazzle just wowed me with [...]

Pitney Bowes and Zazzle Team Up to Launch Innovative Online Retail Center for Customized Business Products On-Demand.
Pitney Bowes, the world’s leading mailstream technology company, today announced in collaboration with Zazzle, an on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands, the launch of an online retail center for customized business products. Organizations can now personalize and [...]

Here are some updates that released last night:
1. Quick Product Create - Yes, now you can create multiple products
at once! Go to My Zazzle –> Public Products and click the “Quick Create
Many Products” link to get started.
2. DST Embroidery File upload - Want to save money on embroidery? You
can now upload the common DST file [...]

Ok, you read this blog you wonderful people. I love you for it. Tell me something, who is this owl? He, she, keeps talking to me but won’t answer one simple question - who are twit twit tawoo are you?!!
Today, it’s asking me what’s cooking? And I’m telling it, “Nothing right now Mr. Owl”.
I would [...]

We promised you exciting things were brewing here at Printfection, the latest innovation being Printfection myBrand. Using myBrand, any Printfection partner can white-label their entire store, checkout, and delivery experience. This is the most powerful and feature-rich solution in the Print-on-Demand industry for building your brand and improving your conversion rate—in turn making you more [...]

We raised money from Sequoia? How come nobody told me?
Seriously, CafePress did not raise any venture capital, nor have we received funding from Sequoia Capital since our series B funding in 2005.
But thanks for all the kind words! Gotta go back to work stitching shirts for those that have lost theirs recently.
-Fred, CEO CafePress

Zazzle was brought into the UK market via the Global Entrepreneur Programme, a government-backed project that aims to identify stellar global companies and bring them to the UK with the aim of getting them to choose the UK as their European or international headquarters. “Zazzle’s unique model and investor portfolio was very impressive, and a [...]

Oh happy joy joy - I hate PayPal.
But anyway - always good to have more methods to payment.  Zazzle have done what CafePress attempted to do some number of years ago. Let’s hope they have a better experience.
They’re having a 10% off promotion - use coupon code ZAZZLEPAYPAL ends 20th October.
:rolleyes:

CafePress have finally addded conversion tracking.  It integrates with Google Analytics, to set it up you’ll need to activate ecommerce then you’ll be able to see a wealth of information.
Information such as:
Product sold
Quantity
Product Revenue
Average Price
Average Quantity
Top Revenue Sources
Source Medium (e.g. Google or t-shirts.cafepress.com)
Revenue per source
I haven’t delved into the actual conversion tracking yet, as I’m [...]