Quick Start No2: Sell T-shirts and Gifts with your designs at CafePress
Required skills: Graphic Design Basics
Investment: from $0.00 to $6.99 monthly
Software: Graphic editor (MS Paint -could be enough, Photoshop – recommended)
Investment: from $0.00 to $6.99 monthly
Software: Graphic editor (MS Paint -could be enough, Photoshop – recommended)
CaffePress.com is an Online Shop for T-shirts and Gifts that allows to a third party (person of firm) to become shopkeeper and to upload and sell own designs on the available products that include; apparel, mugs, caps, cards, bags, and so on.
Don’t worry about the designing skills. You can create only stylish text designs, using stylish fonts.
Before you learn how to promote your site by the means of Internet Marketing you can rely on the CafePress Marketplace.
Don’t worry about the designing skills. You can create only stylish text designs, using stylish fonts.
Before you learn how to promote your site by the means of Internet Marketing you can rely on the CafePress Marketplace.
Every month CafePress will send you a Check if you make over $25 profits.
Quick Steps:
- register an account at CafePress.com
- make small research to get ideas:
browse CafePress marketplace to see what people buy and create
upload any image in the media basket and insert keywords to check their frequency
- create designs:
create more than 4 different designs for one topic
use dimensions 2000x2000pics or 2000x1400pics (fits on most of the products).
for light colored products create PNG or JPG format over 70% quality.
for dark products use PNG 24bit with transparent background.
- upload the images and insert keyword tags
- open store/stores and describe them (follow instructions)
- Basic shops: open shops for every design you have made
- Premium Shop: organize by sections based on designs, not products
- assign as many as possible products to every design at once and set prices.
- create designs regularly (at least 4 at a time)
- post links on several web sites to get picked by search engines.
- Further activates: try to promote your site, make you site search engine friendly SEO or sign for Pay-Per-Click program
- register an account at CafePress.com
- make small research to get ideas:
browse CafePress marketplace to see what people buy and create
upload any image in the media basket and insert keywords to check their frequency
- create designs:
create more than 4 different designs for one topic
use dimensions 2000x2000pics or 2000x1400pics (fits on most of the products).
for light colored products create PNG or JPG format over 70% quality.
for dark products use PNG 24bit with transparent background.
- upload the images and insert keyword tags
- open store/stores and describe them (follow instructions)
- Basic shops: open shops for every design you have made
- Premium Shop: organize by sections based on designs, not products
- assign as many as possible products to every design at once and set prices.
- create designs regularly (at least 4 at a time)
- post links on several web sites to get picked by search engines.
- Further activates: try to promote your site, make you site search engine friendly SEO or sign for Pay-Per-Click program
I must warn you that it is not easy to make sales at CafePress. First, you have to select the right market niche and without some experience you just have to be lucky. Therefore, if you are not sure that you can make sales open free shops and experiment with different topics.
Anyway, if you are determined to succeed, a premium shop for $6.99 will ease your efforts to sell. There is a free 15days trial, but don’t expect to make sales so quickly or to pay for the shop from the sales. You need at least 45 days in order to use Cafe cash. If you are not ready to pay for the shop, don’t use the 15 days free trial. When you make sales from basic free shop you can pay for premium one after 45days.
Anyway, if you are determined to succeed, a premium shop for $6.99 will ease your efforts to sell. There is a free 15days trial, but don’t expect to make sales so quickly or to pay for the shop from the sales. You need at least 45 days in order to use Cafe cash. If you are not ready to pay for the shop, don’t use the 15 days free trial. When you make sales from basic free shop you can pay for premium one after 45days.
Further in this blog I will write hints how to manage you CafePress shop and how to generate internet traffic and make sales.
Fell free to post comments or ask questions.