How You Can Make Extra Money With CafePress

If you’re looking for a fun way of making extra money online, then you should check out CafePress. CafePress has been an online source for creating revenue from unique design ideas for years. They offer a huge marketplace where anyone can sell designs on a large array of different items. There are a few things you will need to get started though.

Design Skills & Tools

Although known primarily for selling t-shirts, CafePress offers many different products that you can put your designs on. Aprons, clocks, coffee mugs, and stickers are just a few of the many items that you can put your unique creations on for sale. But first you need to be able to make unique designs!

Doing this does require some amount of design skills and software. While you can certainly get by just putting some words on a product, a product with graphics and images will always be more appealing to potential customers.

CafePress comes with a built in tool for creating designs that works very well for simple concepts. You can type and edit text in an endless amount of font sizes, shapes and colors; choose from a catalog of images, or even upload your own images. You may find this is all you need to get started and even make your first few sales.

To really make eye popping designs that get people buying, though, you’ll want to look into getting your hands on a 3rd party, professional grade graphic design program. Prices on such programs can range from free (yes, you read that right!) to several hundred dollars!

A Bit of Creativity

I think it goes without saying that you probably ought to be a creative person to sell designs on CafePress, but I’ll go ahead and say it: You need to be a creative person to sell designs on CafePress! You’ve got to be able to come up with ideas that are going to catch people’s eye when they are browsing the site for things buy. In many cases, the designs you come up with are going to be worn on people’s bodies! No one is going to wear a shirt with a lame design it, whether it’s a graphic image or just a text one-liner.

Creative ideas that sell well are often inspirational and humorous. If you’re a funny person you’ve got a lot of work already cut out for you!

An Audience

If you’re going to try to sell designs on CafePress it helps to have a target audience. You can most certainly put up designs based on any random idea that comes to you, but if you are targeting a specific niche then you’ve got focus and that can not only help you come up with ideas, but can help keep you executing on those ideas.

Odds are you’ve already got a target audience and not even know it. What are your hobbies? What do you like to do for fun? Those are all things that you can target with your design ideas. For instance, if you are a guitarist you can make several designs targeted to other guitar players. If you like to cook you can make funny designs on a food theme.

Making extra money on CafePress can be a fun way to supplement your income if you keep at it. The more designs you put up on CafePress the more chances you have to make money!

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