Cafepress Free How To Guide

Make money with Cafepress with our Free complete How To Manual and methods to be successful. The manual is designed to help you create and run a successful Cafepress.com shirt store.

We will cover signing up with Cafepress, creating your premium shop, setting up proper folders on your computer, creating a design and icon, uploading and placing products within your store and the Cafepress marketplace to start making money. This guide will also show you how to pick and create designs that will sell and outperform competing designs. I will show you how I was successful with Cafepress and the mistakes I made. Keep in mind, you might have a different skill level or business plan that is successful for you and might want to deviate from part of this guide.

A little about Cafepress.com and their pricing structure. Cafepress has changed their policies on how stores are paid. There is still good profit potential in their pricing structure, but it’s not what it used to be. After starting my store just over a year ago, I am still generating approximately $1500.00 a month with their new policies in place. Do not expect to make this amount in the beginning. I believe the first month my store was open, I made just enough to cover the premium store fee, which is approximately $5.00 a month. This premium store fee allows you to create and upload unlimited designs into a url provided by Cafepress, a store design template (also provided by Cafepress), and they also print, ship and handle all returns. This means after you create a design and place it on products within the Cafepress marketplace and your store using the online product creator, you do nothing else. They handle all aspects of orders, printing, shipping and returns. Cafepress pays you on a percentage of the order. They set the prices for all products and pay you 10% of the order. Which means if a person finds your design in the marketplace and purchases a sweatshirt with your design for $28.00, you make $2.80 on the order.

If you decide to buy your own domain and point it to your Cafepress store url, then you are able to set your own commission price for any order made from your domain. For example if a customer buys a product from your domain, instead of making the 10% off of the Cafepress set price, you can mark up the price as high as you want. If you create quality designs that customers are looking for, you can generate a good amount of money with a Cafepress shirt store.

Keep in mind, after you place your design on the products, that design can make money for you forever, without any more work. I currently have approximately 200 designs in my store working for me. I had set a goal of creating and uploading 4 designs a week for the first year. To learn more and for the complete Free How To Cafepress guide please visit our site at moneymakingideasguru.

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