How To Make Money With Cafepress

Cafepress.com allows it’s users to upload their own designs to their website and sell items with their design on it.  I'm going to be teaching you a little about how to make money with Cafepress.  You can start your own store for free, and get paid when the item sells. This is one of the best ideas on the internet today – it benefits buyers, sellers, and the company.

You can sell t-shirts, posters, mugs, bumper stickers, books on demand, CDs, wall clocks, even postage. There are dozens of items you can sell with your artwork on it. Cafépress will handle all the payments and shipping. All you do is design and promote.

Another great thing about Cafepress is that they give you monthly bonuses according to how much you sell. You can read more about that here.

This idea works best if you’re artistic, have graphic design skills, or have a great sense of humor. It will take skill and work to make a CafePress store successful, but it can be done and it’s a pretty fun business. This won't make you rich quickly, but Cafepress will be the perfect online business for some people who are reading this.

The first thing you want to do is sign up with Cafepress. Read their FAQs, terms of service, and how to sell. Then open your free shop, upload your artwork, and get ready to sell!

As of this writing, Cafepress allows you to test their Premium Shops for 15 days free. This is a great deal, because if you’re serious about your Cafepress business, you need to get a premium shop. You can promote much more products and get better traffic to your items. It costs about $5 each month after your 15 day trial – that is a great deal and you will never find pricing like this on Ebay!

What you need to focus on, when working with Cafepress is marketing. I found this great ebook by Jennifer Laycock. What she did was try to make money online with no start up money (she actually had $108 dollars in her accounts to play with, so that’s an advantage for her) and she did it with Café Press. It’s a free ebook, so click here to download it. She has some good marketing ideas in there. It takes quite a while to read, but you'll find some things that are worth learning.

The most important thing to do when marketing CafePress is add keywords to your pages so that the search engines can find them. Remember to do your keyword research. This is a skill you’ll gain in time.

Each store you open should target a specific niche. Remember to market to niches that have money to spend. If you're the only seller on Cafepress that markets to Poodle owners, (this poodle thing is just an example, I have no idea if it's profitable) you could make a very nice living.

Other ways to market your store is with a website (which I’ll teach you about later) and on Craigslist. Craigslist allows you to post free listings, as long as you don’t abuse their policy. When promoting an online store, it’s a good idea to post your items in different cities to gain more exposure, but do so within Craigslist’s rules.

I'm not too artistic, so I tried to sell funny phrases instead of pictures. I did learn how to make money with Cafepress and made a few sales but didn't have the time to devote to that business so I no longer sell there.