How to Make Money With CafePress
So you have a great idea for a T-shirt. You might love to produce your own original mouse pads, handbags or buttons. Doing so on your own would take a lot of time and effort. But thanks to CafePress, you don't have to. CafePress is a company that puts your designs on clothing and gift items and gives you a free online store in which to sell them. You set the markup price for each item. You receive that amount in commissions for each product sold.
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Instructions
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Sign up for an account with CafePress.
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Create one or more designs to use on your products. You can use most graphics programs to create your images, as long as you can save them in a supported file format. The recommended formats are png and jpeg, but some other formats are also accepted.
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Choose the products you wish to offer. CafePress will print your image on apparel, bags, household items, buttons, stickers, cards and more.
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Decide how much of a markup you want on each item. The markup from the item's base price is your profit. Be sure you make it adequate to keep your store profitable, but not so high that no one will want to purchase from you. You will receive a check after you have accumulated $25.
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Set up your shop. You can get a basic shop for free, or you can get a premium shop for as little as $4.99 a month. Premium shops can be highly customized, and you can offer an unlimited number of products with them.
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Promote your CafePress shop. Add links to your website, blog and ezine. Include a link in your forum and email signatures. You can even promote offline if you wish.
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Tips & Warnings
You don't have to be a graphic artist to create great products. You can simply use simple graphics or even funny sayings on them if you like.
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staysik
Mar 27, 2009
Do you know how to add html to a basic Cafe Press shop?? And how do you add your shop to webrings? -
jestastic
Mar 03, 2009
great article...i'm gonna go try it out!
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randallpaul
Sep 25, 2008
it certainly has a difficulty ratting of 8 in my view as the work flows to actually understand where you are when downloading a design getting into an image basket then it leaves you dry and the guessing game starts. Actually a ridiculous format but once you finally get around to understanding the logic which is illogical you can do it
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randallpaul
Sep 25, 2008
it certainly has a difficulty ratting of 8 in my view as the work flows to actually understand where you are when downloading a design getting into an image basket then it leaves you dry and the guessing game starts. Actually a rediculous format but once yu finally get around to understanding the locgic whihc is illogical you can do it
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diamond23224
Sep 06, 2008
Thank you for explaining how it works I had visited the site some time ago but did not understand clearly how it works.
