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Sell T-Shirts at Cafepress |
| About Cafepress |
| Cafepress is the largest and in my opinion one of the best and easiest web sites to allow you to sell t-shirts. You can start selling for free and receive money if any of your t-shirts or other products sell. With Cafepress you can sell t-shirts as well as mugs, prints, hats, and 70 other products. We have a brief breakdown of Cafepress services below. |
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Advantages |
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- Open a store for free
- Excellent marketplace to bring you free traffic.
- Easy interface for creating t-shirts or storefronts.
- Pay for services with money you make from selling products (Cafecash).
- Option to upgrade to premium services for $6.95 a month that provide great flexibility and advantage.
- Well established and has a strong presence in the major search engines (making your store more visible in places such as Google).
- Nice bulk features for creating large stores with one or many designs.
- Can print on dark colors.
- They have an affiliate program to help you make sales.
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Disadvantages |
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- Payment only by check. No electronic payment.
- Maybe im biased but I really don't see a lot of disadvantages to using Cafepress.
- Free basic stores are great for tesing out Cafepress but for long term really need to upgrade to a paid Premium store.
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Paid Services |
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- Premium Stores. For $6.95 or $59.95 for the year ($5 a month) you can upgrade your account and have more products to sell, switch templates on your site and add more products and designs.
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Potential Commissions |
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- Ability to markup the items to whatever you want over the Cafepress base price. So if the base price of a shirt is $15 and you sell it for $20 then you make $5 profit. They have fair base prices making the average commission between $3-$6.
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Summary / Future |
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- High traffic and great search engine placement
- Quality marketplace and search function that brings customers to your store for free.
- Good customer service.
- Constantly adding new updates and features to help Shopkeepers sell more.
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Ready to sell with Cafepress? |
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Sign up for a free Cafepress account |
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