Thanks for this brilliant post.

Roughly how much do you sell?

What is your experience?

How long did it take from the shop being up to having the first sales, and when did you get consistent sales?

Does it make a living? Or is it just enough for something nice each month?

We have lots of visitors but conversion is lower than expected.

Wow! I'm glad a person like you took the time to tell us this..as a new shopkeeper I am definally going to do all of this..and earn some money to keep up my premium site when i buy it. THANKX!

Xclusive Creationz

this may be answered in the 21 pages but I was wondering exaclty where do I paste the html for the counter? It looks like crap in the sidebar and I am sort of a dummy about this so if you could make it simple I would appreciate it.

Also I do not know how to set my site up for tracking affiliates sales - how do I do that?

thanks,
aaron

http://wtfwjd.org

Hey thank you for all the advice. I have put alot of hours to into my new store. I am hoping CP will be a great place for me. I am planning on reading all of the info you posted. again thank you
Brian

Thanks for the information. I know marketing is the key and exhausting, so I appreciate the extra information to create a successful business.

Great information hopefully I can put some of these tips into action and get some real flow to my store. thanks

Very helpful hints! Good thing I read this now, I just built my shop yesterday!

Thanks!

This was so helpful, Ty so much!

Thanks for all your effort. I'll be reading it over more than once as I get started in here.

great tips much appreciated

we have been working nonstop on our shop so hopefully we shall start to see the results of that soon

thx a bundle ^_^

very helpful info,
you've relieved some stress too,
acting as a guiding light in my slight dark and danky play X3

Thank you very much. The information was extremely helpful.

Nice article Zap!!

I opened my CP Shop in 2006 with a few basic stores that showed a few sales and mildly took care of it. For about 1 year now I have been working hard on getting the quality and quantity or items up as well as marketing. For the most part I make happy faces, very special ones.

It took a while but I have seen a increase in sales because of it. This post has given me some insight and new ideas for marketing to use on top of those I have now. One of which is giving out T-shirts to friends that are always in public areas like a computer tech in a college and an other who is in a band that may be touring with Genesis (HOLY CRAP THATS A GOOD ONE). I even created a special private section for marketing with t-shirts that have a definite marketing edge that I purchase myself and give out. These ideas came to me when I really started focusing on my products.

Like Zap said, Think outside the box. Look around and see who your friends are and what they do. Ask them if they would mind wearing one of your shirts or even if there is a special one they want that you can make for them but add your store link or name on it as well. Have some cool decals made up for your Car or truck if your on the road a lot.


I also have an external site that looks and feels just like my CP store.
MacPhreak
http://macphreak.com
http://cafepress.com/macphreak

These are some very good ideas =D

I'll try some of these and I hope for the best!

this information was useful..Thankyou