Steps
- Your store page is what potential customers will see when they view xooguru.com. The easiest way to add your store, is with the simple form on the website.
- Register with xooguru.com. Registration on xooguru.com is necessary before you can add or edit any pages. Registration is free and you only have to enter a few details. To register, go to xooguru.com and click on the Log In/Create Account link on the top menu bar. You can use the name of your shop as your username, although this is not encouraged. If you wish to add a profile page or another shop at a later date, it may be better if your username is something closer to your own name.
- Go to the form. On the xooguru.com Home page, or the Virtual Stores page click on the "Add A CafePress Store" link.
- Enter the name of your store in the text box and click "Add or edit"
- Fill in your shop details. Add the details of your store on this page. All fields are mandatory except for the "CafePress Tag" field. Unless you know how to add a custom CafePress tag, leave this field blank as one will be generated automatically for you. Spend some time on this page and especially on the "Keywords" field. Try to think like your customers. What would a customer type into a search engine if they were looking for your items. Add some single words as well as some 2, 3 or 4 word phrases. Aim to add about 10 to 20 if you can.
- View your page. Once you have filled in the form, click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page. You should now be taken to your store page. Be patient, when your page first loads, all of your item data has to be retrieved from CafePress, this may take a few minutes. If you have a very large number of items and designs, this process may fail and an error message may appear. If this happens, don't worry. The site administrator will find the error and create a custom tag to display at least some of your designs.
- Protect your page. It is recommended that you protect your store page, to prevent others from editing it. Xooguru is a wiki and the concept of a wiki is that people can keep adding to and editing other peoples entries. When it comes to promoting your virtual store however, you probably don't want this. To protect your page, make sure you are logged in and viewing your store page. Then click on the "Protect" link on the top menu bar. Here you can check the 2 boxes to prevent anyone editing or moving the page, then click the button to confirm it.
Tips
- Adding your store page is only half of the story. You may have the best designs in the world, but if nobody knows they exist, you wont make any sales. So here are some suggestions for quickly promoting your new Xooguru store page for free.
- Social Bookmarking. If you are not already a member, sign up to a social bookmarking site like Digg or Delicious. Use this to bookmark your new page, you can do this by clicking on the "Share" button near the top of your page. Please also bookmark the Virtual Stores page to let other people know about our service and increase visitors.
- Blogs. If you are a blogger, why not add a link to your Xooguru on your blog and tell people why they should visit your store.
- Social Networking. If you use social networks such as MySpace or Facebook, then why not add a link to your page on your profile. You can do this by using the “Share” button on your page, just like social bookmarking.
- Submit To The Xooguru Directory. There is a Xooguru Directory of pages which is not actually part of the xooguru.com site. Add your page to this directory in the virtual store section for another link. A link to this page can be found on the left menu bar.
Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Promote Your Cafepress Shop Free on Xooguru. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.
No comments:
Post a Comment