Selling T-Shirts

Although I have made Adsense the subject of many, if not all of my posts in this blog, there are other ways to make money from the internet and to monetize a blog in particular.

One excellent way to increase your online income is selling T-Shirts through one of the online t-shirt companies. The one I am recommending because I have had some luck with it, is Cafe Press.

There isn't much to Cafe Press provided you are creative and have a sense of humor, and some internet ability. Not much, but the more you know the better.

Cafe Press works like this. First you have to sign up for a Cafe Press affiliate account. It's free. Then you design something like a cute phrase and or picture, or a blog name or whatever, and using their program you can put your design on their product line of T-shirts, hats, hoodies, mousepads, mugs, clocks, and more. You can then advertise the products on your blog or website and if someone buys something Cafe Press ship directly to them and you get the profit. The profit is up to you. Cafe Press has a base price, it's up to you how much you want to mark your items up.

Although Cafe Press will host a storefront for you, for a nominal fee you can buy a package which gives you more flexibility and put the products on your own website or blog. This is the best way to go, your own site has more credibilty and you can advertise as many different designs and styles as you want.


Truth be told, Cafe Press has been every bit as profitable as any of the other affilate or advertising products I have on my blogs. They have half decent stuff and using your blogger sense of what's hot you can create some cool custom designs, put them right on the pictures of the clothes and start selling. Cafe Press makes your products up on demand, collects the money, ships the products and sends you a cheque. I have simplified this a bit, but that is essentially how it works.

There is the requirement to have some website ability if you plan to really be serious about selling Cafe Press stuff. Mostly because having your own website helps, as does having the ability to make a good job of your images that you will ultimately see on a shirt, hat, hoodie, or perhaps if you are lucky, a thong....

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