Well, things are going to change with the shop, in a big way. Some may like it and some may not. First off you may notice a few missing shirts, well those images got tagged by the copyright folks so I got rid of them, no big deal, I'm happy that service is available where they catch that stuff that I don't know much about. Sooooo...if you were looking forward to purchasing: Bing!, War Kittens, That would be just fine, ED-209 or It's a Trap, they are now gone.
Okay, here is the big news, I am going to discontinue making any more funny, sports, state and movie shirts. Sales are non-existent with these Items, I believe mostly because these shirts are everywhere, and there are literally hundreds if not thousands of shops on the site that carry these same"ish" items. The sales that I am making are coming from the graveyard gear section. Therefore I have decided to stop making stuff that is pretty much offered everyone from the site to target, lol.
The items I will offer in the near future are going to feature my artwork, drawings, paintings, etc. I feel much better knowing that I will be using my own original work other than a re-work on an old movie line or anything of that nature, I hope you agree and will continue to support me with this venture.
As for the stuff that is on there now, I will be leaving it up for a couple weeks while I compile new stuff and start work on changing the look of the site. The items that will be staying permanently are zombie gear and graveyard gear, they will be reworked into different sections with different names. I will be adding new sections, I have a couple already in the works - DREAMS - which will be lighthearted stuff, and fantasy designs (fairies and that sort of stuff) and NIGHTMARES - which will of course be featuring scary stuff, zombies, skulls, and dark/morbid art. There will be more sections as well, I just don't have names for them yet, and I will not be eliminating comedy from all the designs, its just not in my nature, so there will be a section of "funny stuff".
That's about it for now, I hope you will enjoy the new site when everything becomes available as much as I will enjoy creating it. Thanks for reading.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Couple things
Added a couple of new skull shirts in the graveyard section. Besides all the "shop talk" things are going well. The weather is finally heating up here, had a couple of 70 degree days, but I guess snow and rain and cold and misery is on the way, lol. With summer on the way the work will start to slow down at my real job, which is nice in a way because I can spend a bit more time doing more things that I enjoy instead of something that I don't. :D The downfall of course is less income, but I'm the type of person that would rather struggle with that and enjoy my life than to have no struggle at all but be overworked and dead tired all the time.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Gears of Skull
Another new shirt added, with gears, spikes and a skull, everything you need. Check it peeps!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
So1designs update 4/20/08
Hey all, not alot to add this week for happenings and future endeavors. Added a few new shirts, plus some items for the Road Pirates. It was quite easy to do "other" items for the pirates gear, so I think I may take some time this week and put the designs on other products and only add 1 or 2 shirts. I'll be starting with something simple to slap the designs on, probably mousepads right now, just to get things rolling.
In case you may be wondering about the sales side of things, right now they are dismal, lol. But on the good side of things traffic keeps slowly increasing, so things should turn around soon, and if they don't, I'll just keep plugging away. :) Another bit about traffic, I'm getting some hits from Yahoo now as well, around 8-9% of visits, so that's two out of the three big search engines, "ASK" would be next of course.
I've had sort of a brain freeze the last week with other things going on so I haven't been able to add more to the graveyard section like I had wanted to this week, but I should be able to come up with a few new designs this coming week. I'm not going to add anything else right now about future stuff because frankly, I haven't been able to reach my goals yet that I set quite awhile back, so as for now just be on the lookout for the designs to be added to different products.
The layout may change a bit as I will be adding "sections within sections" so to speak. So if you click on a certain design, there will be sub-sections under that design, like "shirts" mousepads" "mugs" etc, you get the point. :) That about wraps it up for now, thanks to those of you who have re-posted and have sent me ideas for things!
In case you may be wondering about the sales side of things, right now they are dismal, lol. But on the good side of things traffic keeps slowly increasing, so things should turn around soon, and if they don't, I'll just keep plugging away. :) Another bit about traffic, I'm getting some hits from Yahoo now as well, around 8-9% of visits, so that's two out of the three big search engines, "ASK" would be next of course.
I've had sort of a brain freeze the last week with other things going on so I haven't been able to add more to the graveyard section like I had wanted to this week, but I should be able to come up with a few new designs this coming week. I'm not going to add anything else right now about future stuff because frankly, I haven't been able to reach my goals yet that I set quite awhile back, so as for now just be on the lookout for the designs to be added to different products.
The layout may change a bit as I will be adding "sections within sections" so to speak. So if you click on a certain design, there will be sub-sections under that design, like "shirts" mousepads" "mugs" etc, you get the point. :) That about wraps it up for now, thanks to those of you who have re-posted and have sent me ideas for things!
Friday, April 18, 2008
Random shirts
Two shirts have been added, "Random Drunk Guy" and "Random Drunk Chick", get 'em while they're hammered!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Durant action
New shirt available, if you would be so kind as to purchase this shirt, that would be..just fine.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
End of the week update
Hey folks, another end of the week update coming atcha! Well, this week was a tough one, but I did manage to put up a couple new shirts. The graveyard gear section is now open with just one shirt available at the moment, but this section will be my area of focus for the next week or so. I would really like to get around 5 shirts up there by the end of next week if I can.
Added one more earlier today, O'Doyle RULES! Check it in the movie section. I had to re-work a couple shirts as well, that is another reason why not a whole lot has been added this week. I removed the lord humungus shirt, I didn't like it, ha. But it will be back up soon enough in a different form, lol.
I'm still trying to figure out how I want the sections laid out with different items to choose from, I wanted to do sub-sections, but that might still be a bit too cluttered, so I may just add entire new sections on the front page for mugs, stickers and whatnot, well see, I'll more than likely be testing that out this week as well.
Future plans thus far are pretty much the same as last week, the graveyard section is up now but more will be added soon, and then the new items is something I will get up very soon as well, I would really like to offer some other items besides shirts for the other designs. If I can ask something of all of you, can you send me some feedback on this? I would like to get opinions on what other items you would like to see added.
Also I may be opening a separate web site which will be a standalone site that mirrors the shop, just something else to attract visitors. And if you have not noticed on the front page of myspace I have started a blog as well which you can check out with the link in the "about me" section. This is to attract new visitors and to describe what is going on with the site during the week. At some point I will also be describing some of the design processes I use if anyone is interested. The blog is also updated quite frequently, I put up posts when I add a new shirt and whatnot.
Traffic to the site has been going quite well and is picking up by the week, and people are staying even longer than before, my target time is for visitors to stay on the site for 7 minutes or longer, right now average stay time is around 6 minutes 20 seconds or so. Compare that with the 1:59 time that I was getting 2 weeks ago I'd say things are going well. :)
That's about it for now, thanks for reposting bulletins and for supporting the site! Check ya later peeps!
Added one more earlier today, O'Doyle RULES! Check it in the movie section. I had to re-work a couple shirts as well, that is another reason why not a whole lot has been added this week. I removed the lord humungus shirt, I didn't like it, ha. But it will be back up soon enough in a different form, lol.
I'm still trying to figure out how I want the sections laid out with different items to choose from, I wanted to do sub-sections, but that might still be a bit too cluttered, so I may just add entire new sections on the front page for mugs, stickers and whatnot, well see, I'll more than likely be testing that out this week as well.
Future plans thus far are pretty much the same as last week, the graveyard section is up now but more will be added soon, and then the new items is something I will get up very soon as well, I would really like to offer some other items besides shirts for the other designs. If I can ask something of all of you, can you send me some feedback on this? I would like to get opinions on what other items you would like to see added.
Also I may be opening a separate web site which will be a standalone site that mirrors the shop, just something else to attract visitors. And if you have not noticed on the front page of myspace I have started a blog as well which you can check out with the link in the "about me" section. This is to attract new visitors and to describe what is going on with the site during the week. At some point I will also be describing some of the design processes I use if anyone is interested. The blog is also updated quite frequently, I put up posts when I add a new shirt and whatnot.
Traffic to the site has been going quite well and is picking up by the week, and people are staying even longer than before, my target time is for visitors to stay on the site for 7 minutes or longer, right now average stay time is around 6 minutes 20 seconds or so. Compare that with the 1:59 time that I was getting 2 weeks ago I'd say things are going well. :)
That's about it for now, thanks for reposting bulletins and for supporting the site! Check ya later peeps!
the latest
Been a rough week, work was tough but things are great now that it is the weekend! New shirt has just been put up in the movies section. O'Doyle RULES! I will be writing my end of the week update sometime today, I'll post it up here and on "the myspace" when it is completed. If you are unfamiliar with this, it's an extensive update I type up and post sometime during the end of the week (Fri, Sat, or Sun) detailing all the happenings with the site and what the near future brings. Check ya in a bit.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
New Stuff
The Graveyard Gear section is now open. I was going to wait to have 3-5 shirts ready before I put the new section up, but I couldn't wait. I will put a couple more shirts in there this weekend. This weather we are having should inspire me to create some dark stuff, it's cold, windy and raining/snowing/sleeting, just terrible. That's all for now, check out the new gear whydontcha!
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Hey Peeps
Well as you can see the blog is up and running! Things are going pretty good at the moment, the Road Pirates gear is doing well and I keep adding shirts to the other sections. I will be adding another one tonight, maybe two. Feel free to check out the site later on tonight. Outside of the site things are going just o.k. been having a few problems with things, but that's the way it goes I guess, work is slowing down quite a bit the past 4-5 days or so. It was the same last year so I should probably expect it to be that way again since things seem to run in cycles in the printing industry. All that means to me is that there will be more time for me to work on shirts and other designs, which I will never complain about.
I have been jumping around a bit when it comes to my plans for the site, I just have this "thing" that I have to put up a shirt just about every day and it's hard for me to skip it and add another option instead, but as I see it right now I should have the "dark" or "skull" section up sometime this week or at the latest this weekend. I have decided on a name for this section as well, it will be called "Graveyard Gear".
That's about it for now peeps, catcha later.
I have been jumping around a bit when it comes to my plans for the site, I just have this "thing" that I have to put up a shirt just about every day and it's hard for me to skip it and add another option instead, but as I see it right now I should have the "dark" or "skull" section up sometime this week or at the latest this weekend. I have decided on a name for this section as well, it will be called "Graveyard Gear".
That's about it for now peeps, catcha later.
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