Tools and Tips for PODs

Daniel has updated his Imagekind Art Review Builder with some added features. There are more features for you to use in building reviews of IK art. You can choose to include a price line, display how often art is featured, and choose options for ‘view larger.’

He has also written more complete instructions along with a better page display that includes the artist’s description of the art for reference, and change the name to ‘Imagekind Art Review Builder.’

This has to be one of the best tools around for reviewing art or blogging about your own art. I’ve been using it everyday on my NiftyPiks site, and it works Great!  You can also check out Daniels reviews at Artistic Opinions.

So… If you’re an IK affiliate and reviewing art, or blogging your own Imagekind art… I’d highly recommend using the Imagekind Art Review Builder.

Just came across a neat little script that adds an ‘edit this’ button on the public view of RedBubble art.  This helps when seeing a typo or error in a description, it allows you to get to the edit page with one click.  Get the script and more information.

Here’s a great tool for making blog posts and writing about Imagekind art. It’s great for affiliates (and bloggers) that want to write a regular review of art.

All you do is find some art you like on Imagekinds site, click on a bookmarklet that you get from http://www.modestopinions.com/ikartreview.php. The bookmarklet takes you to a site that generates code that you can easily put in your blog post.

This wonderful tool was written by Daniel M. Clark with Jen Goode.

Below is an example for a photo from my tiger lily flower gallery at Imagekind.

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This week’s featured art is Tiger Lilies by Kent Lorentzen

This is a lovely framed photo of a couple of tiger lily flowers with their heads hanging down and petals curled up. The spots on the orange petals are so pretty in flower arrangements.

Tiger Lilies by Kent Lorentzen

New art featured weekly, courtesy of the artists at ImageKind.

Tags: Tiger+Lilies,ImageKind,Flowers,affiliate,blogging,reviews

Ever made a sale and didn’t recognize the country code it was from?  This Country Code Lookup from Tips and Tricks for Tshirt Entrepreneurs is handy for doing that.

Jen uses the word (hopefully) in the header on her list of Cafepress tools. I think most people that have tried them would say they are completely useful and maybe even essential.

I hadn’t looked at her list of tools in a while and see she has added some information on working with cpshop. (a script for having your shop on your own website) I’ll have to read through them since she covers some things I haven’t used cpshop for yet.

Next she lists a couple of tools for affiliates and shopkeepers that are pretty much the same except for the affiliate thing. The html page builder is great for making pages to include on your website or blog. Just enter keywords to use and it will make a table of products or designs for you.

The link builder makes links to a product, section, or shop for you. There are options for text links and image links with small or large images. Very useful when writing a blog and including a cp product or section in the post.

Plus there is the cp product finder, it’ll find a cp product from the product number. And… the CP Affiliate view test, which shows a plain view of a shop without the custom features most shopkeepers use.

Many thanks to Jen for her great tools!

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Ever been working in your Cafepress shop and needed to quickly edit the image tags for a product you were working on? Well…. Adam of Buy Tees has a great little tool to do just that. It’s really a bookmarklet that you add to your browser’s bookmarks, when you’re editing a product in your CP shop just click on the bookmarklet and it’ll take your right to the image tag editing page for the image on the product.

A couple of things to remember, you must be signed in to your account and you can only edit tags for your own images. Oh…. BTW – It’ll work when viewing any of your products just as long as you are signed in, you don’t have to be editing the product for it to work, you can be looking at it in your shop.

To get the bookmarklet go to http://www.buytees.net/affiliates/tools/ and drag ‘Edit CafePress Tags’ to your bookmarks bar or bookmark it. Simple huh!

You can also get a CafePress affiliate checker from the same page, it’ll tell you if a product is safe to affiliate.

This site will have info for users of PODs. There are lots of great tools and tips out there for print on demand services. Our goal is to gather information about them here.

The site is in development and we hope to have it filled with info soon!

If you have a tool or tip and would like to contribute to this site, leave a comment or send an email to kent at niftywares.com. I’ll add you to the contributors and be glad to highlite your tool or tips.

Some tools to get started…

If you have a Cafepress shop and want to save clicks when checking orders just add this to your browser’s bookmarks, it’ll take you right to your order report after signing in:
http://www.adaffiliation.com/cafepress/sales.asp

If you want Cafepress ads for your blog or website you can get them here:
http://www.cafewish.com/wishads/

Here’s a Cafepress affiliate link builder:
http://tools.myjgd.com/ap-link-cj.php

To create Google feeds for your Cafepress shop check out: http://cafetoolbox.com/

There will be much more to come.