Making Money Online with CafePress.com

Making money online is one of the most abused and searched terms on the internet. We have all seen the "work from home and earn $900 a week" ads and banners. I make a decent amount of money from the internet, but I never made a thousand dollars a week working online. One website I have found for making money online is Café Press. You can make money online at Café Press by creating sellable designs for shirts, jackets, children's clothes, dog clothes, mugs, hats, and more. I suppose the draw back is that in order to make money online with Café Press you have to be a tad on the creative side. There are thousands upon thousands of designs online at Café press. Some of them are good, but most of them are nothing more than a catchy phrase and some bad clip art. Personally I can't believe anyone buys half the stuff on there.

Making Money Online- Testing the Water

My first suggestion for making money online with café press is to test the water. Come up with some really good designs and then post them online in some related forums to see what your potential customers think. What I mean is let's say you want to make some shirts geared toward dog owners. Create a few designs and then go visit some dog lovers' forums and message boards.

Post a very friendly topic saying that you were thinking of starting a company that sold made humorous shirts for dog lovers and that you wanted to see what they thought of your ideas. Make sure to be friendly so that your post doesn't sound like SPAM. Must users will give you great feedback. Sometimes you can even use these posts to get ideas for other designs. Knowing your customers is the first step to making money online.

Once you get some good feedback on your designs and have decided which ones are likely to make you the most money online go ahead and sign p for a free Café Press account. The free account is a good way to test the money making ability of your designs, but it comes with some drawbacks. With the free account you can only create one design per style of shirt. This means you couldn't offer one design on a variety of products. This is CafePress's way of letting you test the waters.

Making Money Online- Opening a Café Press Store

My suggestion about knowing when to open a store is this; once you make your first $35 dollars I would start thinking about opening your store. Why $35? For starters that is the amount of money it takes to purchase a 6 month subscription plan. Thus you have just put your soon to be money making store online for free!

As soon as you have the ability to open a store I would do it. Take all your existing designs and put them on as many things as possible. The key to making money online with Café Press is having a larger selection. The big money makers are shirts and jackets so get those up as soon as possible. You will also want to keep coming up with more designs. Like I said the more you have for sale the more money you can make. Even if you only think your design is ok, just put it up there. I have designs I thought no one would ever buy, but I'm always surprised that someone buys them. Once I had a design I thought no one would ever buy and one customer ended up buying 15 shirts of that one designs. It just goes to show that you never know what designs are going to make you money.

Making Money Online- Tips

If you really want to give your designs an edge against the other and make some money there are a few things you should do. The biggest is to make sure you optimize your items. The way to do this is to make sure you name your item correctly and write a good item description, and section teaser.

When you are naming your product don't just name it say, smiling shirt, name it Dog Shirt- Smiling. Dog shirts would more than likely be your most searched term so now you have just put your self ahead of all the other dog shirt sellers and on the path to making more money online.

No one really reads the descriptions of the shirts on Café Press so just use this room to saturate your key words. Try to use them as much as possible without SPAMing them. Make sure to create the description and section tester. This is an extra step most store owners don't do.

Making Money Online- Conclusion

So those are some of my money making tip of selling online with Café Press. Feel free to visit my store at www.cafepress.com/pptt