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Post by skyfire on Dec 17, 2009 17:31:44 GMT -5
Anyone have any experience selling anything via CafePress? I had the brief idea of taking some of the stuff I've done over the years and maybe setting up a store there. Since CP handles actually creating, packing, and shipping everything, it might be a nice side job. For example, I'd have the attached image go on a T-shirt. Thoughts? Thanks. Attachments:
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Post by Radiation on Dec 17, 2009 18:54:41 GMT -5
That's pretty cool Skyfire.. I thought about making shirts myself but I don't have the money to set up a Cafe Press account. Perhaps someday when my graphics career takes off I will be able to do so.
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Post by John E on Dec 18, 2009 1:04:19 GMT -5
There's a free type of CafePress store, so you don't have to have any money to get started. You're restricted to only one of each item though, so free stores are really only good for selling a single design on a bunch of different products. If you want to sell multiple designs, you'll either need multiple free stores or a premium store.
Word of warning: It's very difficult to make any money on CafePress. I've had a premium store for a few years and I'm just now starting to make ANY profit at all, and even then, it's not enough for them to actually send me a check. So in reality, even though I've been on CP for years and sold dozens of products, I haven't made a cent. I'm starting to think it's pretty much a scam. I've been considering shutting down my store, but I'm going to give it a little more time.
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Post by sugarfreejazz on Dec 19, 2009 22:27:19 GMT -5
CafePress is good for a side hobby but, you would most likely make more of profit creating a web page people were interested in and include ads. On that site you could potentially sell shirts and other products as a side option. Like fan gear. Another idea is to buy domain names, create a template design and logo for them and then reselling those domains in bundles.
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Post by skyfire on Dec 21, 2009 17:55:57 GMT -5
CafePress is good for a side hobby but, you would most likely make more of profit creating a web page people were interested in and include ads. On that site you could potentially sell shirts and other products as a side option. Like fan gear. Another idea is to buy domain names, create a template design and logo for them and then reselling those domains in bundles. I was looking at Cafe Press because they already have everything in place to sell the merchandise; I just set up shop, submit what I'm going to submit, and wait for the meager pittance to actually roll in. ** Anyway, I'm thinking about possibly calling the store "Stupidi-TEES". How does that sound? |
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Post by sugarfreejazz on Dec 21, 2009 18:55:20 GMT -5
If earning income is your goal, you're not going to make it on cafe press. Which is why I was suggesting the ad site with t-shirts as a side item. It's really not too difficult to set up a simple store compared to a few years ago.
I think the name Stupidi-TEES works, but no hyphen. It visually slows people down. Yes something that small can throw off a potential buyer.
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Post by skyfire on Dec 28, 2009 15:36:06 GMT -5
There's a free type of CafePress store, so you don't have to have any money to get started. You're restricted to only one of each item though, so free stores are really only good for selling a single design on a bunch of different products. If you want to sell multiple designs, you'll either need multiple free stores or a premium store. But for the free store, they still took care of actual printing and shipping, right? I finally got a chance to start looking at the site itself, and so am trying to decide if I want to go ahead and make that final step. |
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Post by yojetak on Dec 28, 2009 18:17:40 GMT -5
Anyone have any experience selling anything via CafePress? I had the brief idea of taking some of the stuff I've done over the years and maybe setting up a store there. Since CP handles actually creating, packing, and shipping everything, it might be a nice side job. For example, I'd have the attached image go on a T-shirt. Thoughts? Thanks. As a major in visual communications, my main focus is type and the use of it. Your picture makes me angry. ps.  |
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Post by skyfire on Dec 28, 2009 18:23:23 GMT -5
Anyone have any experience selling anything via CafePress? I had the brief idea of taking some of the stuff I've done over the years and maybe setting up a store there. Since CP handles actually creating, packing, and shipping everything, it might be a nice side job. For example, I'd have the attached image go on a T-shirt. Thoughts? Thanks. As a major in visual communications, my main focus is type and the use of it. Your picture makes me angry. ps. The image is a parody of the "Explicit Content" warning labels as seen on some CDs. As such, I had to work it into the existing format. |
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Post by Mantorok on Dec 28, 2009 18:47:54 GMT -5
The image is a parody of the "Explicit Content" warning labels as seen on some CDs. As such, I had to work it into the existing format. It barely resembles it at all.  |
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Post by yojetak on Dec 28, 2009 19:06:08 GMT -5
The image is a parody of the "Explicit Content" warning labels as seen on some CDs. As such, I had to work it into the existing format. It barely resembles it at all. Seriously. The font, the caps, the spacing, the size, the kerning... all wrong. The only thing you got right was the colors. |
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Post by skyfire on Dec 31, 2009 17:15:47 GMT -5
How about this one, then? I created it as a parody of all the "fight global warming!" bumper stickers and whatnot that I saw floating around one day. Attachments:
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Post by yojetak on Dec 31, 2009 18:24:58 GMT -5
How about this one, then? I created it as a parody of all the "fight global warming!" bumper stickers and whatnot that I saw floating around one day. Color palette is barf. Along with that font. When will non-designers learn that "funky" fonts do not equal good design? I'd maybe like it if you fixed those two things. Maybe. |
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Post by Vene on Jan 1, 2010 2:18:19 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I've seen that somewhere.
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Post by sugarfreejazz on Jan 4, 2010 16:13:13 GMT -5
How about this one, then? I created it as a parody of all the "fight global warming!" bumper stickers and whatnot that I saw floating around one day. Color palette is barf. Along with that font. When will non-designers learn that "funky" fonts do not equal good design? I'd maybe like it if you fixed those two things. Maybe. Well sky is apparently a master with marketing and communications so we designers have no place making any suggestions. |
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