Has anyone ever sold a design on cafepress.com?

Question

I have only made 2 and they have only been up for 2 days, but no one has bought either yet. Also, the words that I chose for the tags for my design when someone searches don't work because I tried it myself. What am I doing wrong? How can I make some money?

Answer 1

Everything that I have heard says that it takes time. I did not make a sale for 2-weeks but now they are trickling in after 5-weeks (12 sales).

Here are a few sites that I learned about how to market your designs:

http://www.squidoo.com/cafepressfreeadve...

http://www.squidoo.com/successwithcafepr...

There is also a community of CP Shopkeepers on squidoo. They link together to help optimize search engine exposure to increase hits.

You can create a lens (a webpage) for free. Then go to mine and mark it as a favorite. I, then will go to yours and mark it as a favorite and that boosts both of our rankings with the search engine.

My squidoo site: http://www.squidoo.com/cafepress/skeetzt...

Don't get discouraged. Try to add more designs and network a little. It will come.