 Re: My first 4 months now with CafePress... my thoughts so far
I do no real marketing. I have created a suidoo lens, that has sent me exactly 27 visitors LOL. I have listed my products on google with a feed generator. I have run google adwords, but only for a bit, just testing some keywords. I pay for one ad on a niche website, that is $1 a day, and pay $20 bucks at a time every once in a while.
I have two offsite pages, that are subdomains of another site I have for my "real" business LOL, so only cost me $10 a year. I use the CP shop script to pull dancethoughts from cafepress, and the other one is a basic re-direct for the sarcastic baby. I plan to switch that to CP shop in the very near future.
Most of my sales are from the marketplace. If you have a cool design, and can get into a niche that is not oversaturated, you can get found there. They say they get millions of hits a month, and they have millions of tshirts. If you are trying to get found by making one shirt and tagging it "funny t shirt", then good luck LOL. but if you come up with something original, or current, or ripped from a headline, etc, then you can do well there.
And thanks Everett for the compliments on the shop! There is a HUGE learning curve there, and it took a good 2 months of trial and error to get everything right. But now that I get it, it's really great. I just upload a few designs a week, and wait for the checks to come in.
It's definately not get rich quick, but with a little patience it really does work. Good luck to everyone! |