Archive for February, 2009

Open a Free CafePress Shop Pt 2 – Prepare Title and Keywords

Think of a Few Words First When you have found a suitable design graphic,  I suggest that next you think about the title, product name and keywords for your new product – even before you start the procedure of opening the shop. Why? Well the process of opening a new free shop and adding a [...]

Open a Free CafePress Shop Pt 1 – Prepare the Graphic

Create or find a suitable design Without a suitable design you have no product! Remember,  save it at 2000×2000 pixels (i.e. 10″x10″ at 200 dpi)  for using in CafePress and the “Save As… ” file format should be JPEG or PNG. Today I looked through some saved graphics because I am planning to add some [...]

Patience and Planning

“Oh the first days are the hardest days…” – Grateful Dead Patience: that is what is needed in the early days. Patience and planning. Before you can even start selling online there are a lot of things to learn and a lot of things to do. And if you don’t plan what you are going [...]

Selling T-Shirts on-line using CafePress

I began my project of selling t-shirts online using CafePress. This was because they seem to be very big in the US and that is going to be a primary market. Here is a brief introduction to the CafePress service with my opinions and the thinking behind them. Location CafePress operates from the USA and [...]

Selling T-shirts online

Hello! My name is Syd Hancock and I am setting up an online business selling t-shirts and other clothing and apparel as well as things like mugs and other gifts. Maybe you are like me – you’ve looked at many of the internet business ideas going round and thought ‘”yes, that’s great but a lot [...]