Making Money Online with CafePress.com

Making money online is one of the most abused and searched terms on the internet. We have all seen the "work from home and earn $900 a week" ads and banners. I make a decent amount of money from the internet, but I never made a thousand dollars a week working online. One website I have found for making money online is Café Press. You can make money online at Café Press by creating sellable designs for shirts, jackets, children's clothes, dog clothes, mugs, hats, and more. I suppose the draw back is that in order to make money online with Café Press you have to be a tad on the creative side. There are thousands upon thousands of designs online at Café press. Some of them are good, but most of them are nothing more than a catchy phrase and some bad clip art. Personally I can't believe anyone buys half the stuff on there.

Making Money Online- Testing the Water

My first suggestion for making money online with café press is to test the water. Come up with some really good designs and then post them online in some related forums to see what your potential customers think. What I mean is let's say you want to make some shirts geared toward dog owners. Create a few designs and then go visit some dog lovers' forums and message boards.

Post a very friendly topic saying that you were thinking of starting a company that sold made humorous shirts for dog lovers and that you wanted to see what they thought of your ideas. Make sure to be friendly so that your post doesn't sound like SPAM. Must users will give you great feedback. Sometimes you can even use these posts to get ideas for other designs. Knowing your customers is the first step to making money online.

Once you get some good feedback on your designs and have decided which ones are likely to make you the most money online go ahead and sign p for a free Café Press account. The free account is a good way to test the money making ability of your designs, but it comes with some drawbacks. With the free account you can only create one design per style of shirt. This means you couldn't offer one design on a variety of products. This is CafePress's way of letting you test the waters.