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Cafepress pushes the traffic into the shops, for spreadshirt this is non existent, just how much business are we missing, Id like to hear from someone that has experience of cafepress and spreasdhirt.
Its just one shop we can have with a flat account at spreadshirt isn't it? isn't that the same at cafepress? I just want to compare these two, how many shops with the both, flat account and premium, on the surface it looks like spreadshirt is cheaper, looking at initial product price,, but is it, do we lose business with the promotion side.
Cafepress pushes the traffic into the shops, for spreadshirt this is non existent, just how much business are we missing, Id like to hear from someone that has experience of cafepress and spreasdhirt.
Its just one shop we can have with a flat account at spreadshirt isn't it? isn't that the same at cafepress? I just want to compare these two, how many shops with the both, flat account and premium, on the surface it looks like spreadshirt is cheaper, looking at initial product price,, but is it, do we lose business with the promotion side.
Yes, cafepress does send more traffic to the shops via their marketplace. They do heavy google advertising and have good search engine listings for their pages.
However, I wouldn't rely on ANY service to do the promotion for you though. You won't be successful waiting for cafepress, zazzle, spreadshirt or anybody to send you sales.
You can open as many accounts as you want at spreadshirt. The same is true at cafepress.
I would suggest trying out both services yourself and upload the typical type graphic that you plan on selling to both services to see which one gives you the best price.
It might also be worth it to buy one of your product to be printed by both services to compare the quality.
Don't forget to check out PrintFection.com as well
Makes sense to me to do the comparison. Along with this website (which came highly recommended to me), The Guerilla Series by Jay Conrad Levinson may help you with the promotion and driving traffic thing.
I have had my designs on cafe for almost 1 yr now, and I started using Spreadshirt because of the limits and frustrations I have had with cafe and their overall quality.
The main reason is I want to make graphic tees, or atleast see if the market accepts my designs, then I can turn to getting the screend to save on overall cost, and at cafepress you only have 10'x10' and you can't put the design where you want compared to spreadshirt.
When it comes to traffic, CAFEPRESS does a great job on their own for getting their name and the marketplace on the first 3 of most searches, I think if you type in "funny t-shirt" in google , I believe one of the top 3 searches are cafepress and that is not the sponsored result, so there are times I can get a link to my job because cafepress spent money on some adwords and my design was good enough to be on the first page so it usually weeded the weak designs out and only the best show on the main page of the marketplace..
I agree with Rodney that you can't rely on it, but they do a better overall job, and sure spend thousands of more dollars to get that result as well. But what I found with spreadshirt, your design can sell itself and doesnt have to fight with 350k other products..
Hope that helps...
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traffic - spreadshirt Vs cafepress 
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