Make Money in College with CafePress.com

Have you ever heard of Cafepress.com? If you haven't then let me tell you what it is. Cafepress.com is a website that allows its users to create a gift shop online for free and print their own designs on the products. They also take care of payments and delivery for you; all you have to do is get business to your shop and make the graphics. Does this sound good? Okay well in this article you are going to find 5 ways that you can start using Cafepress.com to make you money while in college and maybe even afterwards.

- Sell to clubs/organizations
Every college campus these days has about 50 or more student organizations. These organizations would usually like to sell gear with their log on it or they'd want to buy gear for themselves with their log on it. If it's either one of those cases, you can help and make a profit for yourself as well. If they want the first thing I mentioned you can make money by helping them form their own club or organization shop, and if they want the second thing I mentioned you can put their logo on products and then sell it to them and make a profit.

- Help others start a shop
Cafepress has an awesome affiliate program! If you think that you would like to help others get started with their own shop then try this out! You can make some serious money from this very quick, and you can keep earning a percentage of what your referral sells. All you have to do for this is get a Cafepress account and then sign up to become affiliate. Then you'll get access to banners and text links that you can place anywhere you want online and have people whom you've referred to click on those banners or text links so you can get paid.

- Print individuals' designs for them
Usually on a college campus there are many couples all around. Well, I can guarantee that at least 50% of those couples would buy something if it had their picture or something they wanted on an item. What you need to do is promote yourself and mention that you do this around campus, on Facebook, Myspace, and even just by word of mouth and then go to work. Take orders by email and have them send the picture they'd want or the text they'd like so that you can place it on an item for them. Once you have done this and the item is posted on your shop you need to email them back and let them know that they can make the purchase already. There are so many couples, friend groups and all kinds of clicks that wouldn't mind having shirts, caps, backpacks, stickers, and all kinds of gifts with their mark on it.

- Post flyers promoting holiday gear
If you know how to make cool holiday t-shirts, for example, Halloween, Christmas, New Years, homecoming, or any other holiday that's celebrated by college students then this will be something easy for you. Gather up some cool graphics from Google Images, then go to work with Photoshop on them. Add some cool phrases, your shop logo and paste that graphic onto any item you want to sell; t-shirts are amongst the most wanted items for college students. Once you have created these items print out flyers with a picture of the product and place them around campus, you can also hand them out during class passing time; you'll see you will get some sells. Note: If you have the money to invest, you may want to buy some t-shirts to have inventory already and then sell those on campus for immediate delivery and payment.

- Sell on Ebay or on Facebook
If you're using your Cafepress shop to create awesome graphic tees or gift items with cool saying and hip pictures then selling them on Ebay and on Facebook would be a very easy way to get money coming in from those products. All that you need to do is a little talking. Let your friends know what you're doing and let them know that they'd be supporting you by making a purchase. Another tip for this is, place your Cafepress website on everything that you sell, make it be very small though; that will be an easy way to get people to promote you as well. Something else you may want to try is to wear your gear yourself; this will most likely bring upon questions about where you got what you're wearing and then you could just direct them to your shop.