We’re pleased to announce that CafePress will be launching an official fan portal for Dexter and The L Word next week. If you’re a big fan of the Dexter or The L Word TV show, here’s your chance to design gear for the official fan portals. And, you can start now!

• To get your Dexter or L Word designs included, be sure to tag your designs: “Dexter Showtime“ or “L Word Showtime“
• Additionally, if your design is themed around a specific character, be sure to tag with the character’s first AND last name.

We’re thrilled that Showtime is embracing the CafePress creative community and trusting our community with their brand. Accordingly, there are very specific rules that designers must adhere to in order for their content to be featured in and sold through the Dexter and/or The L Word fan portal.

All images created for the Official Dexter Fan Portal and Official The L Word Fan Portal must comply with the following rules. Please note that these rules may be updated from time to time.

DEXTER FAN PORTAL MERCHANDISE RULES:

• No use of any official Dexter logo
• All images must be tagged with “dexter showtime”
• No use of images or depictions of the actors in, or writers, directors or producers of, the television series Dexter
• No use of profanity, vulgar or hate language, or graphically violent images
• No use of explicit sexual language, images or graphics
• No use of copyrighted material from the television series or its promotional materials (e.g. no use of images of the television series, posters or images from the Dexter website)
• No political party associations (e.g. Republican, Democrat, or candidates)
• No use of Dexter book cover images

THE L WORD FAN PORTAL MERCHANDISE RULES:

• No use of any official The L Word or OurChart logos
• All images must be tagged with “L word showtime”
• No use of images or depictions of the actors in, or writers, directors or producers of, the television series The L Word
• No use of profanity, vulgar or hate language, or graphically violent images
• No use of explicit sexual language, images or graphics
• No use of copyrighted material from the television series or its promotional materials (e.g. no use of images of the television series, posters or images from the The L Word website)
• No political party associations (e.g. Republican, Democrat, or candidates)

“Dexter™” and “The L Word®”: © SHOWTIME NETWORKS INC. All rights reserved. SHOWTIME is a registered trademark of SHOWTIME NETWORKS INC., a CBS Company. All rights reserved.

We’re pleased to share that our partner Sellit has a simple way to increase the online marketing and visibility of your shop with the Sellit widget – ShopBOT!

ShopBOT takes your CafePress shop or shop sections and with one click, transfers your products into a portable shop ready for Facebook, MySpace, a blog or website. Potential customers can see your products and purchase them the minute they come across them anywhere on the web. Upon purchase, customers are seamlessly brought back to your CafePress shop for a safe and secure checkout.

What is a Sellit ShopBOT?

• It’s a sharable version of your existing CafePress shop
• With your shop (section) URL and one click, your ShopBOT is created
• You can place your ShopBOT to an unlimited amount of places

ShopBOT is free to use. Get a ShopBOT for your shop – visit Sellit to get started! For more information, please visit the ShopBOT partner page.

Beginning today, retail prices in the Marketplace will be set by CafePress. We will be doing a round of price testing in the Marketplace channel to determine optimal retail price points. This means that retail prices of the same product in the Marketplace may vary from one day to the next. Marketplace commission is based on the retail price, so please note that sales made during the pricing test will result in different commission amounts depending on the price at the time of the transaction.

You can see the starting prices here. As we are doing price testing, be forewarned they will be changing and fluid not only for the initial testing, but moving forward as well. We will not always have advanced notice of when individual items may change from this schedule, nor will we be able to inform you of changes each time.