The beauty of CafePress

You don't only have to be a customer. The whole beauty of cafepress is that you have the option to make your store public, in other words make it available for others to see your product creations and buy from you. Public designs are added to the search engine and can be viewed by all the people visiting the Cafepress site and possibly bought.

CafePress even gives you the option to choose what percentage of profit you would like to make on a product and makes arrangements of how and when you would like to get paid. You can go even a step further and sign up for what they call a premium shop where you can further customize your shop appearance, introduce sections to your shop and play with the HTML code of your page.

Though this costs a few dollars per month is really worth it if you are looking to make a business out of your designs. There are a few rules and restrictions - obviously you can’t sell trademarked or copywriten ideas, but overall there are no limitations to what you can upload and print. Recently cafepress introduced additional products and services. Though the traditional promotional products like t-shirts, apparel, mugs etc. are the main core of the business, the company is now venturing into the publishing business introducing print in demand services where new and unpublished writers can see their books published and musicians and performing artists may have their work offered in CDs and DVDs.

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