Coupon Corner

For those of you that always want to offer some sort of a deal to your visitors to entice them to spend, rejoice! Many of you may already know that CafePress will send you a coupon to send to your friends (virtual or otherwise) when you make a purchase. Some of these coupons get posted on the internet and you can use them to boost sales at your own shop. The question may arise as to whether or not using these promotions is ethical or not. For me the verdict is out on this one, I asked Angela at CP a while ago if this was okay to use these posted coupons for our own shops' sales and she said while CP doesn't really condone the use of these coupons there are no measures in place to prevent people from posting and using them. Do a search on Google for "CafePress Coupons" and you'll find a number of sites that post current coupons ranging from the formally announced sales by CP to the send us 5 emails coupons that CP does after each sale. Pay attention to the expiration dates however, you don't want to post a coupon on your site or send them to your mailing lists if the coupon is expired. All this will do is to serve your customers with an unprofessional appearance and could hinder sales rather than help them.

Also, feel free to post your favorite CP coupon sites and feeds in the comments section of this post.

Good luck!
Andy

Hiatus over...

Okay, well I wasn't really on hiatus, but I wasn't around. I took an eleven day trip and before I went I was enthusiastic and sure that I would be regularly updating my blog. Well, as you can see if you look at the gap between posts, that didn't really materialize the way I thought it would. But I'm back and looking to re-establish my blog as being one that's useful and at least semi-regularly updated. So for all of you who checked back while I was gone and were disappointed to see nothing new, well, despair not! New posts are on the way!