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2:25 pm
October 26, 2011
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QuoteHi guys
I am currently with cafepress.com for the range of customised merchandise that they allow you to produce. The problems that I have are 1/ They do not do 'bundles' (eg t shirt, cap+hoodie for less than separate item prices) 2/ They do not give you discount buttons as I would like to be able to offer either a sale or LTO on the merch. Are there better companies that I should be looking at that get around 1+2 above?
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Ekow
Been wondering the same things. Ekow, How do you feel about the quality of printing and shirts on Cafepress? Their bottom line prices are pretty steep. I usually just do big orders until they sell out. But I like the print on demand idea. Just haven't found a good price and quality combination.
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4:04 pm
October 27, 2011
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I haven't used Cafe Press, but I do use Zazzle and have mixed feelings about it. I'm an artist and designer as well as a musician and am looking for a good way to use my art and design as part of my sales funnel so am going to stick with Zazzle until I can afford to print my own stuff or find a better solution.
Zazzle has all the limitations that Cafe Press has. You can't collect emails, you can't bundle products and you can't give your costumers a discount code. The quality is good except for printing on dark t-shirts. It is not as good quality as screen printing. You have to be careful that your design doesn't have big areas of white because the ink peels off after the first wash and looks terrible on some colors. If you offer anything print on demand on a dark color I would suggest buying one yourself to see how it looks.
One thing you can do for discounts is tell your email list about Zazzle's (or Cafe Press's) general dicount offers,which they have a lot of, and just say that you're having a sale and they can use that code at your store. Just make sure you're aware of how long the offer is good for. This will steer them toward your store and not look like you're advertising for all of Zazzle.
You can also discount your own price and have a sale that way. But on Zazzle you can only change your price once a month and the base price is pretty high, so you can't give a really great discount that way.
6:04 pm
October 26, 2011
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Hi Guys
I have yet to order any merchandise (story for another day!). I was pleased with how easy it was to customise a range of merchandise that meant that you didnt need to keep any stock and that the whole process was automated, 24/7. I have been in touch with them re the issues raised- there is absolutely no budge on the discount button (beyond what Cafepress offer from time to time). Or you could lower your prices and tell your customers. Re the bundles-I was told that you could 'place the products that you wanted sold as a bundle in a special section and tell the customer this, it would be up to them, if they wanted to buy the items as displayed'. All a bit disappointing! Which made me wonder if there was anything more music biz friendly out there.
11:24 pm
June 7, 2011
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There may very well be a service out there that I am unaware of, but I am personally not ware of any print on demand services that are marketing friendly. I'm working on creating one, but it's a huge project and is quite a ways off. And there are still many "ifs" involved. The only seamless way to really do this that I know of is to print small runs of everything, take your own orders, and hire a drop shipper to do your shipping.
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12:18 am
June 10, 2011
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I haven't tried them yet but I've been hearing good things about Printfection.com. They do pimp themselves as "Marketing Friendly" and have reporting/analytics features. Among other things they let you collect email addresses and I think they may even be a bit cheaper than Cafe Press.
Here is the link to the page describing their reporting features: http://www.printfection.com/fe...../reporting
Anybody have any experience with them?
Daniel
1:20 am
October 27, 2011
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Thanks Daniel. Printfection actually looks pretty good. I'll probably give it a try. - Annie
11:59 pm
October 26, 2011
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Thanks Daniel, will take a look at them. btw had a very polite response from cafepress re the points above-telling me that they would 'look into it', for what it is worth!
4:23 am
June 7, 2011
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Do they make CDs? I didn't see that there. I think that is what is ultimately needed. CDs and merch all in the same place so you can start with the CD and upsell to the merch. With single product sales pages. That's what I'm working towards creating anyway.
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4:51 am
August 27, 2011
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John Oszajca said:
Do they make CDs? I didn't see that there. I think that is what is ultimately needed. CDs and merch all in the same place so you can start with the CD and upsell to the merch. With single product sales pages. That's what I'm working towards creating anyway.
Sounds great John - that definitely would be a marketing friendly approach that any musician who's following the direct marketing approach would embrace. Do keep us posted!
8:28 am
June 10, 2011
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I don't think they make CDs. Yeah man, print on demand CD's AND merch from one site would be huge!
9:38 pm
October 26, 2011
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Cafepress used to deal with CDs but for some reason they stopped. I had 1 CD within their system, but when they told me that they would not be supporting any more I took it out as there was not much point given the rest of the materialI wanted to release. Any organisation that deals with merch and CDs would be good.
Hi everyone, I'm in the same position as you were when you started this discussion .. I want to have either a "print on demand" service, or a small run service, so I can start to sell merch from my website. do you have any other advice as a result of your experiences after these posts were originally made? thanks a lot, Tim Sawyer
12:46 am
June 7, 2011
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Hey Tim,
I haven't messed with print on demand in a long time because the profit margins are so small. But Amazon's create space seems to be a popular one these days.
I don't know this company at all, but here's another option: http://www.cd-fulfillment.com/
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