A year ago last month I signed up and opened my own online t-shirt shop and only recently have I made any money off of it. Now it’s not a lot of money but it got me thinking about what I could do to improve the sales. I Figure the sales came from one of my creations called “Cheeky Face” . This is to date my favorite happy face creation. I also placed this happy face in different contexts to expand or increase its appeal to more people and I believe this to be the reason of these sales. Now what else can I do to unlock the potential behind the “Cheeky Face” and myself for that matter? So far I have placed links on other web sites, reactivated my adwords account so the links show up in Google searches and placed free ads on kijiji.ca as well as on local free classifieds.
Here is a little explanation for you. I call it a t-shirt shop because people understand the premise of it without much explaining and I hate explaining the same thing over and over again. In this shop you can upload images that you created and place them on T-Shirts, Mugs, Mouse pads, Calendars, Clocks and much more merchandise. Then once your images are set up on the products you have chosen you set your profit margin or rates. I usually go for 20% but you must be careful as the host site (cafepress.com) will take an additional 5% if the profit margin goes over $15.
Now there are two ways to make $$ on this site. Well actually 3 ways. One is to simply sell your products. The second is to refer others to open up a shop using your user ID and in doing so you get commissions off of any sales they make. The third is from affiliate sales. This is when people initially come from your shop and buys from another shop.
If all this sounds easy that is because it really is and if you want to give it a try I can guide you through it. Simply ask. After all, If I help you make some $$ that means I make some too.
Well that's it for now
MacPhreak
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