What The Heck Is CafePress?

This is a ton of information, but it really isn't that overwhelming, I promise!

Cafepress.com is what's called a "POD" or Print on Demand company. You design stuff with photography,digital art, writing (you can publish your own books!), sketching, you name it. You choose what products to put the designs on (shirts, calendars, mugs, greeting cards, what have you) and set your markup. Then you can market your store (or not... it's really up to you how much work you want to do, but the more you work, the better the sales!) and voila! people buy. Cafepress handles the money, the printing, the shipping 99% of customer service, return policy, and some minimal marketing.

How much can you make? The sky is the limit! When you set your own markup, you can price it any way you want. The base price is what CP charges.... say, 99 cents for a button. You can sell it for anything over that... 1.15, 2.00, 4.99, whatever (and YES people do sell buttons for $5 a pop. I've seen it, but I don't do it myself). That is your commission.

Fees: There's supposed to be a new fee schedule sometime by the end of the year, as of now, here it is....

If you want to open a basic store, you pay nothing for the store. That's right.... zilch. the downside? you can only have 1 of everything in your store.... 1 black tee, one white tee, one large mug, one small mug, etc. It's lucky that CP has a LOT of products. On the other hand, if someone wants THAT Green tee and you have a different design on that tee, well, they're out of luck. Also, the customer cannot email you and say, "hey man, that's the BEST photo... can you put it on a green tee for me?" Most people that have a basic shop have 1 design on umpteen products for that store.

This is one of my first stores, I only have basic stores right now. www.cafepress.com/urablessedmama
I'm trying to learn more and get it all figured out before I really invest money. Even though it is a small amount.

If you don't know HTML, don't know how to design, don't know your ass from your elbow, it's all good, because CP has info rich forums that will tell you everything you need to know, pretty much. I signed up and didn't know anything about anything. I asked a WHOLE lot of questions and read a LOT of tutorials and everybody was very sweet and taught me everything I needed to know (and believe me, I'm still learning a LOT). They have links to free/cheap designware, logo generators, search engine feeds, and much more.

Let me know if you have any more questions.... If you decide to sign up, please use me as a referral (my store ID is sweetdealgifts) so I can hear about your store and help you in any way!

I've made over $120 now and even earned a $30 bonus!

I know this is a ton of info and I could talk about it for days. I'm having a ton of fun and learning so much doing it.

Below is the link to my referral page. Check it out and let me know if you have any other questions!