And while you’re there, don’t forget to buy your Edison Nation shirts/coasters/stickers/etc…

http://cafepress.com/edisonnation

Hi Matt, How is Edison Nation’s store doing?
It’s really a great site. Very professional
help answering questions.

They also have a large number of workers available to help if you really screw up while you are on the site. They log on your site with you and actually fix it for you if you ask them to. They have helped me many times. Last month I
even received a cash bonus for my sales for the month.

I will be ordering my Edison Nation shirt this
week.

Regards, Toni

Toni wrote: “…you can upload your drawings and sell them for free on cafepress and make some extra money.”

How is this accomplished? Sell them for ‘Free’ and yet, still make money?!?

Eddie,
She means that they don’t charge you anything as the shopkeeper. You basically get paid on the markup for each of your items – they keep the rest.

Toni,
Our store is doing well. I can’t wait until the first time I bump into somebody on the street wearing one of our shirts or hats!

Thanks Matt :)

Joking!

It is really a cool feeling, it happened to me.

My daughter and I were in the mall and a lady wearing a t-shirt with one of my designs was walking towards us and I said to my daughter LOOK, that lady is wearing a shirt that I designed.

I stopped her and asked her if she purchased it
on cafepress and she said yes. I found out
she is one of my customers.

That made my day!

What is your store URL Toni? Go ahead and post it on this forum so everybody can check out your products… They better not be better than my “future inventor on board” maternity shirts ;-)

Thanks Matt – I appreciate that.

OH Matt, they could never be better that EN designs :D

yeah, but, how do you advertise? I mean, how do people find out about the products you sell? other than the obvious way, I mean…

Heather, just go to cafepress.com and they will
explain it all to you. It’s really very easy to
set up. If I can do it (well I didn’t at first,
my son-in-law did) but I do all the work myself
now. I took a lot of notes from him and just keep
looking them over when I get stuck.

Toni,

Thanks for the info! What a great way to supplement your income. I do a little children’s art for my kids now and then. I just may have to give it a try.

Congratulation Toni your just a hustler aren’t you!!!

Matt!! Can I post mine too???

Just kidding that’s disrespectful to the forum but not for Toni because she asked.

“…Cafepress gets $143.82 and I receive my end $126.00.”

Toni, did you mistakenly reverse these numbers? If not, you’re suggesting that Cafepress is receiving over half of the proceeds!?

My goodness Toni.

How many designs are on your page?

Eddie, I think she is talking gross. Cafe press supplies the materials and does the printing and shipping. Hopefully they make more money.

There are a LOT of designs on her page. I 3/4 of it loaded and internet explored just x’ed out the rest. A lot I like, others don’t apply to me. :)

Toni,
How did you create your artwork and submit it?

Post ’em if you got ’em Chic.

I can tell ya the submitting part is really easy, it’s all part of setting up the storefront. I’ve set up two shops myself.

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/ gets you started.

Mark:

I’ve never really checked out Cafepress, interesting!? So, what you’re saying here is, that you just submit/provide the product design/graphic idea and they do the actual production of the product?

Wow, All these questions. I feel like a star. LOL :D

Thank you again Matt, for allowing me to post my
store URL on here. I can’t tell you how many emails I have received since this posting. I am
happily surprised. I have worked very hard to setup all my designs. In case you are all wondering, when my son-in-law first set this up for us, he put it in my husbands name. It was suppose to be for myself and my husband and family to come up with all sorts of ideas. Needless to say, after my husband gave me about 6 sayings for t-shirts and my daughter and son-in-law chipped in their sayings, it’s like my brain wouldn’t stop coming up with things. And then one day I had nothing more to add – it’s like my brain said there is nothing up there left. So now and then when I do have a saying or design to add, I do. I guess it’s because I have so many other projects that I am
working on now. When I did this site work I really concentrated on this site only. I am sure if I went back to this full time I could add many more than I have for now.

Eddie, they make more than me because I choose
not to add as much to my products as other stores
do. Cafepress does all the work – not me.

Chic, I did not ask Matt – he was nice enough
to suggest to me that I could add my URL. :D

Mark, thanks for looking at my site.

Suzanne, I used photoshop to do all this work on
my site except where you see under a picture
artwork. Those are my actual art works on canvas
that I took pictures of with my son-in-laws help.

Kevin, I have over 700 actual designs that I have uploaded. So there are plenty of items to
pick from – actual count of items I have on display are more than 30,000, if you take into
consideration it is not only t-shirts. There are
calendars, cups, mugs, hats, bags, bibs, baby clothes, garden signs, journals, teen wear, maturnity sizes, extra big clothers, dog sweaters,clocks,coasters, it goes on and on. They keep adding new stuff all the time.

If you notice every one of my sayings go on different items. I would not put a certain saying on a childs bib etc.

Cheryl, thanks for your email I will be happy to help you in opening a store. You would be good with sayings. You are very sharp; and all the other emails I have received regarding my site.

I would like you all to look at my site first,
before I help anyone. Also, please read about
cafepress first – read about the site and see
if you think you can do all the artwork or drawings yourself. You can’t copy someone elses
work. It has to be your own designs and sayings.
If you do, cafepress will notify you and block
your design from being shown.

After you read all this, email me privately and I
will be happy to answer any questions anyone of you might have.

Thanks again, for checking out my site.

There is no limit to how much money you can make.
It all depends what customers are looking for.
I have a lot of bulk orders because I have a lot
of designs regarding many different categories.
Such as child predators, sexual perverts, child abuse, art. legal sayings that my daughter gave to me are a big seller. It all depends. Everyday
I sell different things.

If you decide to open a site or store (which is what I have – I only pay $59.99 yearly) please
mention my URL (Zoozooz & Joseph LaCava) because
they will pay me 5% extra for anyone I get to join above what they pay me now. This 5% is not
added to your cost – the buyer- it comes out
of cafepress’ money.

Thanks, Toni

Toni, great summary!

I would like to clarify 2 things…

Toni pays $59.99 yearly for the storefront feature we are linked to. You can create individual pages at no cost. This does limit what you put on each item though, unless you open separate pages for each image.

As toni mentioned, Cafepress has a specific set of products that they print on. The page displays how your image would appear on the item (shirt, postcard, etc). Once somebody purchases your item, at that point they They pull out a stock product, run it through the printer, and ship it out. They have no overhead until the purchase is made. That way, if your product is not sold, it doesn’t cost them anything.

Thanks Mark, I couldn’t have said it better myself. Mark you should take all your pictures
of your wildlife that you took. Like Murray The
Moose, Woolfie, that rock pic you put on your site – if you uploaded those kind of pics, you would make a lot of money.

Thanks for the info, Toni! I guess I meant to ask: in what format do you submit your artwork to get printed? I’m amazed at how many designs you have! Good Luck with this business!

Suzanne, Im not sure. All I know is after I make
a picture with photoshop I go to file press save
upload I think to html. Then press save as and
then pdf. I think. Next time I upload a pic
I will check to make sure. Sorry, I am really
computer illerate.

Heather, it’s Cafepress.com. I guess EN would know for sure. I can’t believe they would open up a site on there if they were told that cafepress were the sole owners of their artwork.

“Please be clearly advised that you retain any and all rights in and to any content that you upload through the CafePress.com service. Please read the CafePress.com Terms of Service and the Shopkeeper Agreement, both of which make it clear that you would retain any and all rights you may have in and to the content that you upload. However, you do grant CafePress.com a limited license, which enables us to create and market your products.”

So Mark,
Are you going to give us the link to your shops?

Matt,
You wrote:
What is your store URL Toni? Go ahead and post it on this forum so everybody can check out your products… They better not be better than my “future inventor on board” maternity shirts ;-)

And I believe you were a little ‘proud’ about the Future Innventor baby bib in another thread.

Just a question…Are you expecting?

Wow Toni! I don’t know how many times I’ve come up with slogans for bumper stickers or t-shirts that I think would do well, but would never go and order a bunch to sell on-line. This is sweet! …Now if only I could remember what those sayings were… I’m going to look into cafepress, and see if I can get something going. Thanks!!!

Two sites I made were for past employers. Nothing that would benefit me. Another has a backstory that would be too long to go into, but thanks for asking. Just sharing my experience, nothing to gain personally.

Your welcome Raff, if you need any help, email me.

Cheryl, did you check out cafepress.com?

Nice Guess Cheryl… but no. Just thought they were pretty out there and funny. My personal faves are the ringer t-shirt and the coasters.

Hey Toni,

Thanks for this suggestion, I’ve been wanting to make propaganda for some time but…

here’s my shop, I assume it’s cool:

www.cafepress.com/parousiatown

Mat, suck Satan farts? I’m willing to bet that takes off.

Hey Matty, I love your stuff.

Matty, Second Coming – Very Nice. I would like
to go to that town :D

Every penny of my referral money goes to the
Humane Society……plus half my profits.

Sorry Toni, It was all I could do to navigate the site, never even thought of it.

Suck Satan Farts is a bumper sticker to put above your muffler.

My lady did the WARNING one

BTW “Apocalypse” means unveiling not eschatological war.

Ed mentioned working with dark apparel, our old version of photoshop doesn’t have a PNG option, I don’t think they will look bad either way.

Toni,
I opened a cafepress store and I wanted to make sure you got credit. Does it notify you when a store gets added using your reference? I have had a few t-shirt ideas that I had been wanting to do and this is a great resource, thanks! I needed a little kick in the butt.

Greg, no link? How do we find you?

Chere,
Here it is. I hope you like it!

http://www.cafepress.com/RedlineLogic

Thats pretty cool guys and gals.
Toni, kudos to you! your to be commended for what you do for the Humane Society. They are one of my 1st charities besides the Jimmy Fund…thanks!

Greg,
My husband was a ‘geographical’ single parent when our daughter was 4/5, I was in Okinawa. Many “Dad Hair Day” pictures during that year. LOL

Chere,
That one is my favorite! Before I knew about Cafepress I made a couple of shirts for my daughter and nieces. I know there are a ton of Dad’s that need a couple of those shirts!

Hey Greg, you have a really cool shop. I love it!
I love the Dad Hair Day and t>i shirts. You should also put them on posters, pet sweater,
sweat shirts, and maternity items,plaques and calenders – I sell a lot of those items too.
The more you have out there – the more you will sell.

Cafepress lets me know when you sell something. I
then get an additional 5% on my total sales.

Today I sold 10 different shirts to people in
Washington, Idaho, Texas, Utah, and Australia.
Did okay for today so far.

Yesterday, I sold 10 small posters to one
customer in Great Britain.

Thanks again, for mentioning my store Zoozooz :D

Hope you make tons of money.

Thanks Jerry, I am a very proud supporter of all
animals. I like them better than most people.
Not all – just most. There just so special.
I could watch a TV show like Medical Mysteries,
watching them cut up people and it not bother me.
But I can’t even watch animal police – I would
have nightmares thinking about all those poor
abused animals.
It’s funny, if I see something on TV about an
animal I just look over at my two and say to them,
Do you have any idea how lucky you guys are! They
jump all over me and start kissing me and wagging
their tales. Unconditional love.

Toni, I hear ya. Sinces moving to Florida its one of the worst states I’ve seen for animal abuse. Maybe its the media? I don’t know but our support does not go unoticed.

Checked out your cafepress link,,,pretty darn cool. I need to tell my sis in law about that and will have her mention you as referral. She is an artist and would benefit from that site.