Can you really Make Money Online?
In a word - Yes. Shown below is my latest check from CafePress. Although now that they changed the Marketplace commission schedule I no longer expect to receive checks like this. I have not yet covered the $5 monthly fee from sales in the shop this month. Combine the raising of prices in the Marketplace, with [...]
Sunk Costs
I know I told you I was planning on filling that From Pink Slip CafePress shop with as many designs as I could so that it would be able to make back the money I already sunk on it, but since then, I have re-thought that idea.
Sunk costs are items that you will not be [...]
Starting with Zazzle
We got a resounding response (thank you all for voting), ZAZZLE was chosen as the Print-on-Demand (POD) site to start at next. As I stated in prior posts, you already have all you need to set up and fill a entire CafePress shop. If you want to review anything from the CafePress posts, just click [...]
The New Marketplace Tax
A recent email from CafePress to their shopkeepers notified us of their intention to tax commissions. “Tax? Really? That seems like a harsh word to use, surely they didn’t use that word.” You are correct, they did not say Tax, they just implied it. Here is what they plan on doing:
Change the pricing in the [...]
Sections within Sections on CafePress
Last week I explained that I wanted 1 section that was called “Blog Logos” and then when people clicked on that section they would see 5 more sections each one a different one of my blogs. This is what I am calling Nested Sections.
To see one of the examples I already have loaded, you can [...]
Why we have loaded 2 designs
If you were wondering why we loaded 2 designs and want to see a specific example, here it is. The one on the top is the “lower” or centered image, and the one on the bottom is the same image but brought up to the top in the editing process. As you can see, on [...]
Adjusting designs on specific products
Last week I showed you how to put your image on a section of products and how to use 2 different images (one high, one centered) for the different products. You will also note that some of the products have the design running over the edge (like on buttons). We will remedy this now. Unfortunately [...]
Completing your section template
Last week we walked through how to build a section on CafePress. We created a section and left it “hidden” so that we can use it as a template. There are a couple of things that need to be done to Clean this up though. First - we have to make sure that all of [...]
Building a Section
Ok, so now you have gone through the steps of creating a design, loading it to your media basket, tagging it, applying it to a product and then typeing in descriptions and making it available for sale with a markup.
If you want to keep a Free CafePress shop, you will be allowed to apply 1 [...]
Applying the design to products
So, you have loaded your design and tagged it. It is now sitting in your media basket and available to be put on a product.
Since most of you are still using a basic shop, I will show you how to apply it to a single product. With the basic shops you can only apply 1 [...]
