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CafePress: Free Shipping + Up To 30% Off T-Shirts
Posted by: | CommentsNeed a t-shirt? Want free shipping? Then you need to check out the latest sale at CafePress!
Order by Tuesday and get free Economy shipping* at CafePress with coupon code VIPSHIP. Also take up to 30% off t-shirts!**
Here’s the fine print:
*Free Economy shipping for CafePress.com orders. Delivery address must be within the United States and cannot be a PO Box. All orders will be Economy shipping unless the order is not eligible for Economy shipping (e.g., order exceeds Economy weight restrictions), in which case order will be automatically upgraded to free Standard shipping. Coupon code VIPSHIP must be entered at check out. Promotion starts on February 25, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. (PST) and ends on February 28, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. (PST). All orders must be from the CafePress Marketplace. Offer valid online at CafePress.com only, cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotions and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders. elled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.
** Only applies to short-sleeved t-shirts, subject to availability. Excludes bulk orders. Discounted prices are set forth on the website, no coupon code required. Promotion starts on February 6, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. (PST) and ends on February 28, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. (PST). Discount can be combined with other coupon code offers. All orders must be from the CafePress Marketplace. Offer valid online only, and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.
Zazzle: St. Patrick’s Day Pinterest Challenge
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KayeCee’s Tip –> Be sure to use a URL shortener so that your Zazzle ref links stay intact at Pinterest! You’ll probably have to edit each pin to add your shortened URL.
Below are the details from the message I received this morning:
St. Patrick’s Day Pinterest Challenge
We know that many of you have been extremely excited by the new image sharing site, Pinterest! We love it as well, and wanted to create a fun St. Patrick’s Day themed challenge that incorporates both Zazzle and Pinterest.
A Little Info about Pinterest
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that allows users to organize and share images that they find on the internet. You can create your own boards for any topic you can think of, pin images to those boards, and browse pinboards created by others. Once you create an account, you can add the Pin-It Button to your Bookmarks Bar which will allow you to easily “Pin” any image from any page on the web to one of your pinboards.
Challenge Details
St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, so show off that Irish pride (everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, right?) by joining in our Pinterest Challenge for your chance to win a $100 Zazzle Gift Certificate! Here is how it works:
Create a pinboard with the title “My Favorite St. Patrick’s Day T-shirts”.
Pin your favorite St. Patrick’s Day T-shirt designs to your board! You can pin as many designs as you’d like, but make sure that at least 10 of them are from Zazzle! (You can definitely add more than 10.)
Send an email to pinterestchallenge@zazzle.com with the Subject Line: “St. Patrick’s Day Pinterest Challenge” containing a link to your pinboard.
That’s it! Have fun with it and feel free to browse other people’s pinboards!Prizes:
1 Grand Prize winner will receive a $100 Zazzle Gift Certificate and their pinboard featured on the Zazzle Blog.
4 additional winners will receive $25 Zazzle Gift Certificates.
CafePress Sale: 25% Off Pajamas
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s a flash sale at CafePress! Get 25% off pajamas with coupon code: SLEEPY. Better hurry! Sale ends at midnight!
* Save 25% off pajama sets from CafePress, excluding shipping charges, gift wrap charges, taxes and custom duties. Excludes pajamify and bulk orders. Coupon code SLEEPY must be entered at check out. Promotion starts on February 21, 2012, at 12:00 a.m. (PST) and ends on February 21, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. (PST). All orders must be from the CafePress Marketplace. Offer valid online at CafePress only, cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotions and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.
Zazzle: Red, White & You Sale!
Posted by: | Comments15% off everything at Zazzle with coupon code: REDWHITENYOU
Here is the fine print for the sale:
15% of the product net sale price will be deducted when one or more qualifying products are purchased and the coupon code REDWHITENYOU is applied at checkout. For most products, the net sale price is the price of the product (excluding shipping and taxes). For Zazzle Custom Stamps, the net sale price is the difference between the price of the Zazzle Custom Stamps (excluding shipping and taxes) and the face value of the postage. Offer is valid until February 21, 2012 at 11:59pm PT. This offer does not apply to past purchases and may not be combined with any other Zazzle promotional or volume discount offers. If a volume discount applies to your order, you will receive either the discount set forth in this offer or the standard volume discount, whichever is greater. Offer valid on Zazzle.com only.
Zazzle Adds Customer Reviews To Product Pages
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Zazzle Adds Customer Reviews To Product Pages
Uhm… yeah… the photo above pretty much shows the reaction that several Zazzle shopkeepers had lately when they visited their shop and realized that Zazzle now has reviews displayed underneath their products.
Granted, reviews can be very helpful for online businesses. It helps to add keyword fodder for the search engines and helps customers in making purchase decisions.
Reviews Done Well
Amazon, a site that offers a marketplace for a variety of sellers to hawk their wares, is a prime example of a company that utilizes customer reviews in a very efficient manner.
At the top of each Amazon product page itself, you’ll find a little star rating next to the product title so that a customer can tell at a glance what kind of average rating a product gets. That is followed by a link that tells the customer how many reviews that particular product has received.
The customer can either click the link to see all of the reviews, or scroll down to read the item description and find the first three reviews at the bottom of the page. If they decide that they want to read more reviews, they can click a link to find the rest.
Initial Thoughts About Reviews At Zazzle
Personally, I believe reviews can help Zazzle’s bottom line, BUT they’ve got some problem solving to do first.
Right now, there are several poor reviews showing… from what I’ve seen so far, various complaints about printing and sizing. That tells me that Zazzle needs to work on some quality control issues and conveying sizing correctly to customers BEFORE they start slapping those reviews up.
As a customer, I’d take one look at some of those reviews and head straight to another company, like Skreened or Cafepress.
Another problem that I have with the reviews as they stand right now is that reviews for designs OTHER than the one I’m looking at are showing.
If I’m at Amazon and thinking of purchasing a Hello Kitty calendar, WHY would I want to read a review about a KISS calendar? I don’t care about the KISS calendar! I’m interested in finding out whether or not the Hello Kitty calendar is a good investment for my daughter’s room.
As a shopkeeper, it just looks like one more way of possibly sending customers that I’ve sent to Zazzle off to make purchases with other designers. And I most certainly don’t want my readers who are thinking of making a purchase to assume I am the one who has printing issues.
Zazzle Reviews In Action
Let’s take a peek at my “Nurses Make It All Better” coffee mug from one of my shops:
Nurses Make It All Better Coffee Mug by LifeOverHere
If you’ll scroll down, you’ll see that there are no reviews for this product. However, keep scrolling and you’ll find reviews for other products.
When I first landed on the page, I was confused. Like a lot of people, I skim when I read. I wondered why on earth a customer was talking about kittens on their mug when mine had NOTHING to do with cats.
Studies have shown that most surfers notice things on the left of the screen moreso than the right, which is exactly what I do. The words, “Reviews From Customers” was the only phrase that registered in my brain as I flew through the page.
Several confused seconds later, I FINALLY noticed the pictures of the other products on the right of each review and it dawned on me that THESE were reviews for other products… not mine. Everything fell into place then and I understood why the reviews seemed so “off” to me.
The Bottom Line
As a customer? It’s good to know that there are printing issues with certain products. I’d probably find another company to purchase from for those particular items.
As a shopkeeper? I don’t want those issues reflecting on me as a designer or photographer. I also don’t want one more way to lose sales to other shopkeepers.
It also makes me more choosy about what products I’ll be designing for in the future. If there are a ton of complaints about the printing on XYZ product, I probably won’t bother adding them to any of my shops.
What about you? Like the reviews? Hate them? Share your thoughts below!
