Earning money from your work by other means

CAFE PRESS

Cafepress.com is a site that can help Artists make money from their designs/illustrations/paintings. It is useful as a sideline revenue and a promotional tool for artists. Simply sign up to get your own free shop and upload your digital images and place them onto the items of your choice. You decide how much mark up to put on each piece while they take the base profit for the item. Payments are sent by check when they reach a certain amount which can be decided by you, but not less than $25.

PRO'S

This service is free and fairly simple to use once you get the hang of uploading images and become familiar with the general website layout. It is possible to upgrade the shop through a payment option making the shop look more proffessional and attractive to customers. Any image without any copyright infringement can be used. Once you have designed your shop it can be a useful source of passive income and requires little to no time attending to it, unless you choose to promote it online yourself. You can also choose your own shop name, perhaps using you own name as an artist to give yourself a branding presence in the marketplace. Cafepress promote various pieces of work on other relavent websites. Also has its own internal search engine.

CON'S

Cafepress doesnt have a webpage view statistics analyser, so you will have no idea if any of your promotion work online is bearing any fruit unless you get an increase in sales. There is no way to add text onto a T-Shirt or other item unless you produce it yourself and upload it. The basic shop(free)looks simple and unattractive. There are so many people trying to use this site to sell items that your product can get lost like a needle in a haystack. Cafepress does not pay your commision with paypal but instead by check.

SUMMARY

A good site for artists to use getting their art printed on various kinds of products to sell or themselves buy.