Anyone have a Cafepress store

@venshida (4836)
United States
August 11, 2007 6:53pm CST
My daughter read an article about Cafepress last week, and she mentioned it to me. I have spent several hour on the site, but I not sure I am sold on it yet. If you have a store, do you have to have a graphic background to produce a quality product? Are you making any money on this site? Did you have your design copyrighted?
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@wiccania (3360)
• United States
12 Aug 07
I don't have a graphic background and I've sold a number of items. I have 2 cafepress stores that I've created items for. Just to give you an idea of what I've done: http://www.cafepress.com/shoprm & http://www.cafepress.com/gagesmom You've got to promote the heck out of your stores to earn anything though. If you do it, I wouldn't recommend setting the mark-up too high.
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@venshida (4836)
• United States
12 Aug 07
One of the reason why I hesitated was the price. It seems to me a lot of the items were pricey. I am going to check your site out. Thanks.
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• United States
8 Oct 07
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• United States
12 Aug 07
My younger sister had a Cafepress shop for a while, and she actually might still had it. She mostly just did text on her items, and occasionally silly little drawings or photographs to go with the text. I don't think you need much of a graphic background to make quality stuff. You would need to be familiar with a photo editing program of some sort, but that should be about all it would take. I'm not sure if my sister made much money with her site, but I know that she was featured in a couple of local newspapers (local to where we both used to live). She was a marketing major in college at the time, and the articles talked about how she used her marketing knowledge to help her sell her products.
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• Canada
18 Aug 07
I have a couple of stores on Cafe Press. I created this one for my fiance. I've always tol him that he needs to run for President. I'd definitely vode for him. http://www.cafepress.com/voteforwalker I also created a store for a book I published a couple of years ago. The title "Tak For Mad" is Danish for "Thank for the Food" since it's a cookbook of Danish recipes. The recipes are in English, the title is in Danish. http://www.cafepress.com/takformad
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
12 Aug 07
I'd considered the whole Cafepress thing some months back but somethign about it just didnt grab me enough to go through with it...I know alot of ppl do sell on there successfully etc but I imagine not without putting alot into it and I just dont have it in me to be all consumed wiht it ya know....
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