Tuesday 23 August 2011

Start a Shop With No Money!

We all know about Ebay where you can set up a store and sell goods you have bought, collected and so on. However if your creative and have the marketing knowledge to launch your own store selling goods without having to purchase them! This service is called CafePress and what they allow you to do is well get an online store with "No set up fees", "No upfront costs" and "No out of pocket expense". This is how it works if you'd like to run a store, firstly you sign up, then upload your designs and choose your products and promote your store. 


CafePress manage everything else for you so for example if you were selling t-shirts, you'd already have uploaded your design and then when someone orders they manage the billing, delivering and printing. You'll never actually touch the product as it will be delivered from the printers and they will send your check each month. 


The company ships 6 million products annually through some 2 million shops where there are more than 325 million different products created through over 250 different product types.


If you have 10minutes this video tells you how they started;




Let us know what you think...

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