Support your Cafepress Artists
Ranked #11,753 in Arts & Design, #220,350 overall
Cafepress - A Print on Demand Company for Artists to sell their Artwork on products
Whether it is a hobby or main income, creating artwork for products to sell from a Print on Demand (POD) company such as Cafepress , Zazzle or Printfection takes time and effort.
The artist/shopkeeper creates the designs, then chooses which products to sell it on.. chooses the profit margin (usually) and creates a visually appealing website shop in which customers may shop. It is a process and can be very time consuming. Many Artists/shopkeepers like myself spend many more hours a day working at this than normal 5-9 day jobs. The payback is that we can work at home which is nice for many reasons. The drawback is when the customer unknowingly shops in the marketplace at Cafepress (which BTW is the Only POD who does this) sells the product for only a 10% profit while the company base price has been elevated. Unfortunately, in google searches, most commonly the links to particular design/product sold at Cafepress goes directly into the marketplace.. where the shopkeeper will get only 10% of the sale and the customer will pay more than if they had landed in the shop. This article will help teach you how to buy the same product in the Cafepress shopkeeper's shop and typically pay less than if you had shopped in the Cafepress marketplace. NOTE:Most -Not ALL- shopkeepers set prices lower than the marketplace - and because the Cafepress base price for shopkeepers is less than the marketplace price, the shopkeeper will usually make a better profit while the customer STILL pays less.
The artist/shopkeeper creates the designs, then chooses which products to sell it on.. chooses the profit margin (usually) and creates a visually appealing website shop in which customers may shop. It is a process and can be very time consuming. Many Artists/shopkeepers like myself spend many more hours a day working at this than normal 5-9 day jobs. The payback is that we can work at home which is nice for many reasons. The drawback is when the customer unknowingly shops in the marketplace at Cafepress (which BTW is the Only POD who does this) sells the product for only a 10% profit while the company base price has been elevated. Unfortunately, in google searches, most commonly the links to particular design/product sold at Cafepress goes directly into the marketplace.. where the shopkeeper will get only 10% of the sale and the customer will pay more than if they had landed in the shop. This article will help teach you how to buy the same product in the Cafepress shopkeeper's shop and typically pay less than if you had shopped in the Cafepress marketplace. NOTE:Most -Not ALL- shopkeepers set prices lower than the marketplace - and because the Cafepress base price for shopkeepers is less than the marketplace price, the shopkeeper will usually make a better profit while the customer STILL pays less.
Buying from the Marketplace vs the Shopkeeper's Store
Why you should shop directly from the Cafepress Shopkeer's Store
Example: How to Support your favorite Artist at Cafepress. This shirt sells IN my shop at 29.99 - IF the customer goes into my shop at http://www.cafepress.com/getyergoat.580211118 and makes this purchase OR the same shirt sells in the cafepress marketplace where the customer pays 32.00 which is the SALE price, normally the price in the marketplace is 35.00 - even on sale the customer will pay 2.01 less shopping IN my shop for the very same merchandise. When this shirt is Not on sale the customer pays 5.01 MORE than if they shop in my store..
Please support your artists when shopping at Cafepress - you can find the artist's shop link at the very bottom of the product marketplace page where it says "Designer's Shop: (mine says)"GO To www.GetYerGoat.com - for Lower Prices
Make sure you look for Designer's SHOP at the bottom right side NOT the link midpage (above the facebook comment window) that only says Designer because that link will still take you to the marketplace. IN ADDITION: The artist gets Volume bonus credit for Shop sales, where they do not get Volume bonus credit for marketplace sales.. You still get the same shirt/merchandise. Click the image for a larger view so you can read the notations and examples.
ALSO from a reader (Thank you) :
You might want to add a note on how to get to Basic shops. If the person has a premium shop that "Designer's Shop" shows up at the bottom, but if they have a basic shop, than it won't show up, but you can get to it by taking the following steps:
Go to the page on CafePress of the item you want.
Click on the link next to the word "Designer:"
Click the link to the designer
That will take you to the shop page, and the URL will look something like this:
http://www.cafepress.com/sk/yourshopname
Remove sk/ to go to the shopkeepers own basic (or premium) shop...
How to Information on Selling Online
Work from home and Make Money
Some ideas on what you can do right from your own home and make a profit
SO Why do I bother With Cafepress at ALL?
Exclusively Licensed to sell from Cafepress
So, why do I bother selling at Cafepress since it is such a PIA? You Ask? Each POD has it's own licensing for design topics allowed to be sold exclusively at their companies and one of those is Twilight, of which I am a huge fan.. Creating Twilight Saga designs is one of my favorite things - they are not allowed at Zazzle, so I remain at Cafepress where I can offer my original Twilight Saga artwork for sale on a huge variety of merchandise.
Link Building Tutorial
SEO Link Strategy
A Link Building Tutorial that clearly outlines how to format your links and where to start looking for links relevant to your business.
powered by Youtube
Cafepress Holds Exclusive Creation Rights to These Topics too.
More of my Exclusive Designs at Cafepress
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lens Love Widget
This module only appears with actual data when viewed on a live lens. The favorite and lensroll options will appear on a live lens if the viewer is a member of Squidoo and logged in.
New Guestbook Comments
-
-
Jewelsofawe Jan 11, 2012 @ 8:51 pm | delete
- I did not know that about CafePress.
-
-
-
goldenecho
Oct 10, 2011 @ 3:17 pm | delete
- Yeah...I know what you mean. Most things in my shop are cheaper than in the marketplace, BUT I still earn more commission off of them than marketplace shops. I'll be linking this site from www.squidoo.com/podshops
You might want to add a note on how to get to Basic shops. If the person has a premium shop that "Designer's Shop" shows up at the bottom, but if they have a basic shop, than it won't show up, but you can get to it by taking the following steps:
Go to the page on CafePress of the item you want.
Click on the link next to the word "Designer:"
Click the link to the designer
That will take you to the shop page, and the URL will look something like this:
http://www.cafepress.com/sk/tribaltoes
Remove sk/ to go to the shopkeepers own basic (or premium) shop...
http://www.cafepress.com/tribaltoes
-
-
-
BayAreaDigs
Oct 11, 2011 @ 2:04 pm | delete
- Thank you.. I added this information- I appreciate the suggestion!
-
-
-
bmthour Oct 9, 2011 @ 9:29 am | delete
- Wow, I just learned things that I did not know. I love your Breaking Dawn design with the blue hearts, it's gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this information.
-
-
-
Creativeproducts
Oct 5, 2011 @ 8:33 am | delete
- Very nice lens and very informative information.
-
-
-
BayAreaDigs
Oct 5, 2011 @ 8:48 am | delete
- Thank you So much
-
by BayAreaDigs
Graphic designer with shops at Zazzle and Cafepress. Lovingly owned by 89 goats, 2 dogs and a donkey.
- 16 featured lenses
- Winner of 6 trophies!
- Top lens » Jehovah's Witness
Feeling creative?
Create a Lens!
Explore related pages
- Zazzle 101 ... How to make a profit on Zazzle Zazzle 101 ... How to make a profit on Zazzle
- Print on Demand Shops Reviewed Print on Demand Shops Reviewed
- AlteredKat - An About Me Lensography AlteredKat - An About Me Lensography
- Squidoo Zazzle Tutorials Squidoo Zazzle Tutorials
- How to create funny t-shirts How to create funny t-shirts
- Graphic Art Designs Graphic Art Designs
