CafePress - your personal online shop in 20 minutes

I mentioned CafePress.com before, now I will write a bit more about it. It's a completely free way of selling personalized cloths, mugs, calendars and many other products. It takes only 20 minutes to create a fully functional shop. Running a basic shop is free, but if we want to enhance it much further, it will cost us about 6.95 USD a month (cheaper if we decide on a longer period). Premium shop offers more products and more options, but a basic shop is enough for a start. They also have the "100% Money Back Guarantee On All Products" policy for 30 days after receiving the product, so that really helps to attract the customers.


After registering we have to decide, what exactly we want to sell. The choice is pretty wide: cloths, caps, mugs, calendars, framed pictures, clocks, pillows, bags and much more. We can even print a book or record a CD with our own music. Creating the product, for example a t-shirt, we choose a t-shirt, upload an image we want to have printed on it, and we set up a price. Of course, the most difficult part is promoting our product, and making people choose ours, instead of millions of others. Here a bit of imagination and a few good ideas are welcome. Your own website or blog will definitely help, and creating one for free with blogger.com is really easy. CafePress has good online help with many tips, giving ideas on how to promote the products. It's really worth to try and experiment with this site. Even if we won't sell anything, we can learn a lot in practise.

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