★ How to Promote & Market Your Cafepress Shop | Bulk Add Products | Beginner's Guide - Part Four ★

These are examples of the range of products available to design on Cafepress.
The range includes t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, Thermos flasks, SIGG water bottles, Flip Mino gadgets, bags, yoga mats, blankets, aprons and LOTS more.

Always remember to check this page for new product releases so you can bulk add them to your shop as soon as possible. If you'd like to know how to bulk add a product to your shop sections, look at step 1 below.

Click here to visit my shop (where the above designs are sold).

- In part 1 of this beginner's guide, I skimmed over the advanced features section in premium shops because these tools are best used when products are , and I will now go through these features in full.

- Sign in to Cafepress, click the 'My Shops' tab at the top and find your shop name under 'Premium Shops'.

- Click the shop name (in my case it is applepip).

- Scroll down to the subtitle 'Advanced Features'.

- Click on 'Bulk Add Products'.

- Locate the product(s) you want to add to more than 1 section at a time, click 'Make Selections' in the chosen category, select the tick box of the products you want to add, and press the green 'Add Selections' button.

- When you have the products you want in the yellow box on the left (see image above), I have chosen to add the FUNtainer Themos Bottle only.

- Scroll down to the 'Select Sections' subsection. There are 4 options. Choose the option which fits what you want to do. I am going to select 'choose individual sections' because I will only be adding the product to 2 section.

- A box (as shown above) appears when I select 'Choose Individual Sections', which lists all of the sections in your shop. I selected the tick boxes next to 'The Template' and the 'Animal Designs' section. When you select a section, all of the sections inside that title section are selected too (i.e. the 'Lion' section).

- Click the green 'Preview Products' button.

- Wait for the pop-up page to finish loading, check again that the correct sections are selected, and then click the 'create products' button.

- Wait for it to finish, then check through your new products and re-size the images if necessary.

- Go back to the Advanced Features list on the Shop Management page.

- Click 'Bulk Remove Products'. This is for if you want to remove products from different sections all at once.

- The process is exactly the same as the bulk adding one, but obviously with the opposite effect. See the 3 steps above to see how that's done.

- Go back to the Shop Management page again and click on the only advanced feature that hasn't been covered yet: 'Change Storewide Product Prices'.

- There are 3 ways to change the prices throughout your entire shop on this page:

* The first is to click the blue 'Synch all products to match Marketplace sell price' link - located above the product list. This will match your shop prices to the marketplace prices.

* The second option is to use the drop-down menu where it says 'Add a fixed markup'. You can choose a markup amount to add to every single product in your shop.

* The third (and my favourite method) is to add individually chosen markup amounts for each product in your shop. To do this, add markup amounts you want ($) in the blue 'New Markup' column. If you leave a space in this column blank, the markup will remain unchanged.
Click the blue 'fetch' link next to any blank space to see the current total price (base price + markup) being charged for that particular product in your shop already.

- Click the green 'Save' button at the bottom of the page when you have finished changing the markups.

This page is called a Squidoo lens. You can create your own by following these instructions.

For promoting your Cafepress store on Squidoo, you can add a Text Module to your lens in which you can write about your shop. You could add a Text with BIG Picture module to include a large photo of some of your shop designs. And most importantly, you could add a Cafepress module to your lens which can link directly to, and sell directly from, your own Cafepress shop (as shown in an example above).
To learn how to use the Cafepress module, click here.