The Shop Funk Blog

Do you Squidoo?

I want all of you to go and check out my awesome new Squidoo blog! It’ll soon be filled with great tips for Squidoo lensmasters like me and you!

Not part of Squidoo? It’s a pretty awesome place! Check it out and join!

Updates to Twilight designs!

Well, CafePress has added new rules concerning Twilight designs, which means that I’ve had to update a lot of my designs to follow those rules! Here are the new versions of your favorite designs…opinions?

Don’t forget to check out my awesome Squidoon blog for you Squidooers out there!

We’re featured on the CafePress blog!

Yay! There’s nothing like getting noticed; especially on the website where we make our t-shirts! CafePress recently featured my design in their blog post about Twilight T-Shirts!

And it’s not even the number 1 design out there! Don’t I feel special?

So be sure to check out our awesome FEATURED Twilight designs!

Save Pushing Daisies!

If you haven’t yet heard, the amazing TV show on ABC, Pushing Daisies, is in danger of being cancelled.

The show is going up for renewel, but ABC hasn’t renewed it yet. There have been rumors that the season may end at only 13 episodes and then be picked back up again for a third season.

Right now, ABC has aired six episodes, so we are only about halfway done. But don’t let the show die! Sign this petition, which currently has over 32,000 signatures!

Check out a few of these websites dedicated to saving this show…
Save Pushing Daisies Net
Save Daisies dot Com

We have to save this great TV show!

“Yes, we can.” And we did.

Well, I was never a proponent for either candidate really, but I am kind of glad Obama won. History in the making, huh?

So I thought I’d share some cool t-shirts and stuff that are all pro-Obama.

And this one is on sale. Only $10. For a limited time only!

So get your Obama tees. And stuff.

Btw. Twilight has been searched 42,800 times on CafePress today. And McCain? Only 8,948 times today. Hahaha. And I’m not just laughing at him. It’s just funny on the internet world: fandom >>>>>> politics, hm?

New This Week: “I Prefer Fictional Boys” Twilight T-Shirts

Yes, finally, I remembered to post the “New This Week”! So, this week we have more awesome Twilight t-shirt designs! First off,t he newest one…

“Do you prefer your boys to be fictional? Like the awesome characters of Twilight; Edward Cullen, Jasper Hale, Jacob Black? Show it off, with these t-shirts and buttons!”

Get it on buttons, t-shirts, hoodies, and more! Stickers and bags will be added soon!

Also, a few days older but still technically new this week….

Based on Edward’s swooning quote, “If I could dream at all, it would be about you.” Who doesn’t love Edward Cullen’s quote based t-shirts, huh? He always said the best (and cheesiest, at times, haha) things.

Both pictures are clickable, and I highly suggest you get your Twilight tees before the movie comes out! It’s coming out in only 17 days!!!! Ahhh!

Also, once you watch the movie, if you want to squee about it, I highly suggest you go here. Until you actually watch it though, get your Twilight gear here.

A little on marketing…

So, my friend decided to open up her own CafePress store, and I was giving her lots of tips and stuff on promoting it to the world. I decided to make a post to help any of you newbie CP shopkeepers out there!
Marketing can be very hard, and sometimes expensive, depending on the route you choose to take. Ads can get pricey, and sometimes other methods of offline promoting can also add up (i.e. magazine/newspaper listings). Here are some of the popular and easy ways to build up traffic; for free!

1. Blogging

Blogging is a very important part in promoting any business or website online. You can share your ideals on your blog (haha, Twix commercial), and it also works as a money maker. You can have multiple blogs and use programs like Google Ad Sense to put ads up and get money whenever other people click on them. The key part in this is to get a lot of traffic heading to your blogs, but if you keep making good posts and frequent ones, you’ll start to build up a bit of traffic!

I suggest using some free blog hosts, like Wordpress or Blogger.

2. MySpace/Facebook

These days, just about everyone uses MySpace or Facebook. Make a Facebook page or a MySpace page, and make sure to promote it on your CafePress, or website (or whatever you have!). People will want to add you because they probably have a page as well, so you can update them more frequently! Even professional businesses are starting to make MySpace and Facebook pages, so keep your fans up to date with either page!

3. Squidoo

If you’re looking to make free web pages, Squidoo is the place! Squidoo allows you to make individual “lenses”, which are just like a webpage. They love CafePress, and you can make your own lens and promote your store to the world, for free! You can also make money from Squidoo (or give to charity), with their eBay, CafePress, Etsy, Amazon modules, ads, and more!

4. Twitter

Twitter is a great way not just to communicate with your friends, but also potential customers! It’s free, and you can also Twitter from your phone! You can link people to important or cool things, or you can update your followers on what you were doing. Cool, huh?

That would be the basics to free marketing! Of course, it’s late, and I’m tired, so I’ve probably missed a lot. Haha. If you know some really awesome, FREE places for promoting your website(s), drop a comment, and we’ll include it in next time!

Also, I just saw the Twilight trailer for the first time offline! Even though I think the movie will NEVER live up to the book, I love the book so much that I get excited to see it! Eee!

Boo! The Perfect Halloween Tees!

I wasn’t completely sure on what I would be dressed up as for Halloween. I was debating between the classic pumpkin or witch, and than thinking maybe something from Star Wars *nerd*, and then I thought maybe I wouldn’t even dress up and just wear an awesome Halloween tee. Going through all the costumes and picking one, etc, etc, it’s just not worth the hassle, right? In the end, I decided to just dress up as Sarah Palin, and maybe get my friends to dress up as moose. Cause it’s awesome. I totally did not steal that idea from CafePress (yes, I did). But I really despise Sarah Palin, and would love to mock her. Now, before I get into political arguments over me hating Palin, let’s just proceed to the awesome Halloween t-shirts I was checking out.

I thought this t-shirt was adorable. It’s from The Spotted Olive.

This one is from CafePress, from my own shop.

The wicked witch, flying on her broom!

This one is very basic, but obviously awesome.

This one is from Zazzle, mariannegilligan.

Another wicked witch one!

And we have tons more at Holiday Funk (our holiday store!). So check it out for awesometastic Halloween t-shirts.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October may be the month for Halloween, but it’s also something much more important!

Breast Cancer Awareness month is here! It’s important to be aware of this tragic disease that has taken too many lives. So do your part (if you have money, of course), and buy some Breast Cancer Awareness gifts! Even if you don’t know anyone that has suffered or is suffering this, it’s important to let the world know what is going on, and that we have to do something to stop it! You’ll be helping out as well, because throughout the month of October, 50% of the commissions we get from our BCAM gear will be going to the Breast Cancer Foundation!

Also, I’m so sorry for not blogging as much as I should be. Just busy with lots of school stuff, and real life stuff. You know the pesky real world; gets in the way of virtual living. I’ll try to be blogging more, so ya’ll can read more about those totally AWESOME sales and etc. Yay!