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Buying and Selling Custom T-Shirts on CafePress

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Comment by Kat FlaminCatDesigns on March 14, 2012 at 8:18pm: Here we are on March 14. We have 18 members in our Share and Shop group on facebook and 34 likes on our page. I just learned how to make shower curtains and just got templates for that and the duvet, pillowcase. CP also is adding more stuffed animals. I made 2 sales for St. Patrick's Day, they were 4 leaf clover flip flops. So for a beginner, CafePress right now is inch-ing towards being more successful than Zazzle for me. I know a lot have abandoned CP, but it isn't dead. I have the pay as you go plan which tops out at $10 a month or 10% of my sales. I know a lot of people left because of the charging for shops, but times have changed, expenses to run businesses are up everywhere. I hope to be successful there.

Comment by Kat FlaminCatDesigns on November 25, 2011 at 9:52pm: It seems that it is much easier for sharing from CafePress to share to a group rather than a page. So I have a group started. Let's see how this goes.

Share and Shop from CP Shopkeepers

Please come join and promote your products.
We are at the height of Christmas shopping season.

Comment by Kat FlaminCatDesigns on November 14, 2011 at 8:17pm: Thank you, we got a few people on the fan page, I hope more come. I have been sharing lenses that people have written with their how to's for CafePress.

Comment by GypsyOwl on November 3, 2011 at 2:20pm: Kat, I love the fan page idea! That is a great way for CafePress designers to show what they are up to. Nice work!

Comment by Kat FlaminCatDesigns on November 3, 2011 at 2:04pm: ( Group admin - I hope this is OK to share with the group here. If not, please just delete my post. )

I added a CafePress page on fb so you can post designs and lenses. Also blog links and webpage links that all are about your CafePress products.

Open up your audience with Facebook traffic on your lenses by posting them on this page :)

Share and Shop from CP Shopkeepers

I hope you come join me.

Comment by Kat FlaminCatDesigns on November 1, 2011 at 9:18am: So I was looking at the fan portal stuff on CafePress, I haven't tried designing anything for that sort of thing yet, but I happened to read the rules for the newest Twilight one. It seems there are so many things you cannot do.

Fan Portal Merchandise Rules

Has anyone here designed for any of the fan portals? If so, do you get sales?

Comment by Kat FlaminCatDesigns on October 26, 2011 at 6:53pm: I have 2 shops at Cafe Press. I am not the greatest with HTML so I am using the templates. I have only been there a short time as a shopkeeper so I don't have a lot of designs yet.

This is my floral photography shop, so far only photos, I haven't done text or graphics with these yet.

http://www.cafepress.com/floraldreams

Here is my fun cat designs shop. I have Halloween and a little pirate stuff there now.

http://www.cafepress.com/flamincatdesigns

Comment by Kat FlaminCatDesigns on October 25, 2011 at 11:53pm: I'm new to both sites and I am in the unpaid intern stage. I find the Cafe Press shop set up not as user friendly as Zazzle. I have spent more time on my Zazzle store. I need to get some sort of rhythm for creating graphics for both shops.

Comment by John Dilbeck on May 22, 2011 at 12:06pm: I still sell more products (a lot more) on CafePress than I do on Zazzle. I sell enough throughout the year to more than pay the premium fee and then have pretty good sales from October to January and get a few nice commission checks, then. (But, not as nice as they used to be!)

I've sold a few items on Zazzle, but still have not received my first commission check.

Most of my sales are through the CafePress marketplace and I earn about a third of what I earn on sales in my shop.

My Cafepress shop is at Shirts-Mugs-Hats.com and I also have John Dilbeck's Zazzle Shop.

I'll be adding more designs to both of them and promoting them more.

I used to earn a nice check most months and I want to build that back up to where it was, or more.

I have lots and lots of designs I have created, but which have never been uploaded to either store. At least 150 or so. It's all a matter of time, energy, and priorities. I hope to get all of them and more new designs online in the coming months.

I've done a much better job of promoting my CafePress shop than the one I have at Zazzle, but I plan to rectify that situation over the next couple of years.

I have some interesting ideas for creating a Billy Joe Bob persona to advertise his (fictional) Billy Joe Bob's Live Bait and Sushi Bar Emporium. I'm thinking a blog, simple website, and some videos. Trying to make it the cool shirt to wear in Murphy, NC.

The one thing I really like about Zazzle, now that I'm starting to understand it, is how easy it is to use affiliate links to promote any design they have. CafePress had a pretty decent affiliate program and my income was growing every month, until they switched to Commission Junction and the whole thing went down the big drain.

I intend for my affiliate income from Zazzle to be higher than sales from my own shop.

Comment by Mary Beth Granger on May 22, 2011 at 11:25am: I try to add a few things to my CafePress shop each month and I usually have a few sales a month...enough to pay the Premium fee and a bit more. My main emphasis is on my Zazzle store.

Here is my CafePress storeMbgphoto