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09-12-2008, 08:43 PM
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It only took about a year to get around to it, but I finally have the bones of a t-shirt store up and running. It still needs a lot of work (it's on a basic, somewhat ungainly template right now) and a bit more product, but I got tired of people asking me when I was going to get it done. 
So, for those of you who have been on my nag, er, gentle reminders list: Shirtsation
With any luck, I'll add some more designs before another year passes. 
Seriously though, thank you to those of you who kept prodding me. 
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09-12-2008, 08:49 PM
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 just in time for halloween for the halloween shirts!!!!
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09-12-2008, 08:57 PM
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Yep. I wish I could say I planned it that way. In fact, right after I posted I realized that I forgot to upload one of the Halloween styles. I had to go back and add it before Thankgiving came around.
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09-12-2008, 09:27 PM
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Enlarged views, please? I can't see the Coming up from the upside one.
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09-12-2008, 09:37 PM
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The store platform doesn't provide enlarged detail.  I think I may have to delete that particular design. You're right. It doesn't read well in the thumbnail view.
Maybe one day, I can get the shirts into a real site.
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09-13-2008, 11:35 AM
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Congrats Sara! Nice job.
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09-13-2008, 12:36 PM
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The kitten shirt!!!! |
09-15-2008, 05:34 PM
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This is going to be fun!
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09-15-2008, 06:19 PM
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Thanks.
I'll let you know if there's any success with it. So far, there's been quite a bit of traffic, but no conversion into sales. (Except for one order from a friend. )
We'll see. Right now, I have nothing to lose for trying it out. Except maybe for the $10 it would cost to upgrade to premium service so that additional analytic tools can be installed. Of course, there's a tradeoff. $10 for my sanity when I obsess over the reports. 
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09-15-2008, 06:20 PM
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Very nice! |
09-15-2008, 08:51 PM
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George tweeted the link to the lipstick on a pig T, and I retweeted it so it got some coverage with our Twitter followers.
I'll include it in my long lost shotgun post this weekend. |
09-15-2008, 09:18 PM
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I saw that. Thanks, JP. 
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09-18-2008, 09:37 AM
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I added a couple of new designs this week.
Here's one of them. Some of you might relate.
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09-18-2008, 09:48 AM
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When you click on the tab for Graphics ( Lipstick on A Pig Shirt - Unique Halloween designs, cats, caffeine and chocolate lover t-shirts), some of your graphics don't show completely - I think it's a white-on-white issue.
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09-18-2008, 09:55 AM
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I know. And you're right. It is a white on white issue.
Unfortunately, the platform that they provide doesn't allow you to submit a separate graphic for printing and display. Until we're capable of building our own storefront and just using the printshop for backend functions, we're a bit cobbled by the limitations of their platform.
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09-18-2008, 10:37 AM
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snort. I love the blonde one.
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09-18-2008, 10:49 AM
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I thought you might.
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10-11-2008, 07:51 PM
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I went out today and a lady started laughing hysterically at me. I started to get a bit flustered and upset until I realized that she was laughing at my shirt. I got several positive comments and chuckles today. |
10-11-2008, 08:30 PM
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10-11-2008, 08:50 PM
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Some pig.
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10-11-2008, 09:55 PM
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and your haircut's cute too 
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10-11-2008, 09:59 PM
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Did Sara just call me a pig?
Thanks Lynn. I had it cut this morning. |
10-12-2008, 03:49 PM
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 Did Sara just call me a pig? |
Never. Even without lipstick.
Meanwhile, I just discovered that I am a true idiot. Hush, I know you've all known that for a long time.
I went into the back end of the shirt shop to check on something and noticed that all the prices for the lipstick on a pig shirt were grossly inflated. Turns out that I had set the design up to allow other shops using the same service to sell it too and it added the commission that I would charge them for use of the design onto the products in my own store. Which means that every product featuring that design was grossly overpriced.
No wonder it wasn't selling. The production prices are high enough without all that additional markup.  :
Naturally, it's on the one design whose time has come and gone.
Sigh. Live and learn. 
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10-12-2008, 07:41 PM
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Then I have a collectors Item!
In 10 years I'll sell in on Ebay and share my huge profits with you!
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