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Shopoholic12- Can you expand on that? Do you mean start a profile? Or just pay them to advertise my line? What would I need to provide them with (links, graphics etc??)
Could you maybe post up the new address for your store. Other people looking for your other storefront url (www.cafepress.com/militantmind) may not find it. I did manage to find it under the changed name and the layout does look very nice.
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Ok, I see it now. I think your site looks good too.
Cafepress lists 178,000 military designs. I'm concerned customers just never find you. Are you tracking your unique hits? Are you getting any hits in general? Are you optimized?
If I google "military tshirts" (which is what I would enter if I think of your tshirts) cafepress comes up right at the top, so I click there. Then you get the different categories. With 178,000 military designs, how on earth do I find yours?
I don't know - I'm not too familiar with Cafepress but it seems from an engine search perspective, you'd be so lost in the crowd it wouldn't be funny. I think maybe the competition is just too stiff there.
I'm curious as to everyone's hit to sale ratio on Cafepress.
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I totally agree with getting some designs on the top pages I just don't know how.....It would be awsome if I could use the models and shirts from the dixonclothing.com site but I have no idea how to do that. Also I wanted to ask you, Are you sugesting I put them in the place of the px star logos?
Hiya Andi,
That is totally up to you. I like the PX star logos. I would think even adding an image of a guy and an image of a girl wearing your designs, anywhere the pics would fit nicely on the front page would be enough.
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Kelly- first of all no harm no foul on the "pricey" thing
Thank you. Turns out the old Merriam says: pricey, also pricy. It's no wonder I couldn't fall on either side of the fence. But thanks for being so cool about it.
Best of luck to you. I hope you are able to get your site set up the way you would like it to be. Best regards, Kelly
It would be awsome if I could use the models and shirts from the dixonclothing.com site but I have no idea how to do that. Also I wanted to ask you, Are you sugesting I put them in the place of the px star logos?
I think this might look good. I think investing money in photography for your site is one of the best investments you can make! And, like girlzndollz said, seeing those products right away is important. I think real photos help make a site not seem so "flat," and I know that for myself I would much more likely buy something that I can really "see", rather than just an image or icon of it. I don't know how that front page works for cafepress, but could you just upload jpeg photos in place of the logos if using photos was something you decided to do?
I hear you saying a lot that "I don't know how to do that." If not, FIGURE IT OUT! Business is about learning, and there is a large learning curve as you know. Do what you can, and then do more. As for your original question about your website, I will be brutally honest because you asked us to, so here are my comments:
1. Have a banner with an actual person wearing your shirts on the front. Have your designs on the front page with the option of male, female, youth, etc. within the actual shirt page. Also, the pictures on the page with the designs are way too small. I don't think I can read a single one withouts squinting.
2. Yes, using "mens px" and the others is clever, but not everyone knows what that is. You have to assume the average person won't know what PX stands for, so make the site compatible for all people.
3. I think your prices are too high for a one color print. Even the most expensive sites don't charge more than $18. Just my opinion though.
Overall it's not bad, you just need to switch around a good amount of content to different pages. As said in a previous post, you may only have 15 seconds and 1 page load. Think about that.
Susie- Heres the thing, I just signed up and set up google analytics, and I'm still working out the kinks and learning how to read all the info but it does say I received 2 organic search hits today from google.
So some how people are finding me thru all the thousands..... Funny thing is I try to search for myself knowing my key terms/tags and I can't even find me!!! LOL
Ok here is another question (sorry I know I'm full of them)
My understanding was that the size I save my design/pixels/dpi had to be exact because that was the size it would be printed on the shirt. So thats what I did and thats how it was uploaded....However if I change the font/image to be larger on the models so they are legible will that screw up how it will be printed on the shirt by cafepress?
"Military Mind" much better - Mike makes a good point, but the vast majority of folks who will buy from your site will know what PX means - so no problem.
If you know how to do a mail merge - start building a list of military bases (and units), all VA facilities (maybe they can give you addresses (?), VFW, military colleges, etc. - send them post cards (cheap and easy to design) and ask that they post the card on their main bulletin board. That should help to get your name out there.
I couldn't find you IN cafepress when I was looking for you. Imagine if I wasn't specifically looking for you?
2 search hits per day will not yield any sales. You must get this number up. One of them probably got there by accident and the other might think your price is too high or not be interested in the designs... etc. Or it might be one of us :-)
There's something like 1% to 2% of unique hits from a qualified target in your niche that will buy.
I think you need to work on being actually found.
Good luck
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Andi,
I went to your site and checked it out.
1. I love your ideas, stay with them, this is what makes you different from me or anyone else.
2. I think you should have a sale on one type of tee.As a teaser, to see if it is a price issue.
if all the sudden you are selling more of that one, and not the others, that is the problem.(i loved your tee with the wings, but the price did take me back)
3. Get your tees in a store, or hand some out, get poeple wearing them, I have been doing this for a little over a month, I have sold alot already, in person, in my shop, I have also tried the net, I have sold nothing, I was testing both markets.
I have sold the most from wearing them.
connect with your local, army, airforce, national guard recruiter, and ask if you can put some in there office. think outside the box.
You have great ideas and designs, You can do this.
Sandy
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