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Cafepress Online Fundraisers

Cafepress.com is an excellent website to run online fundraisers with! They will let you set up a free online store where you can sell a whole assortment of customized items like Charity Calendars, mugs, T-shirts and much more!

The great thing about Cafepress and their online fundraisers is that there are no costs at all, and you won't have to fulfil any orders... They do all the leg work for you!

All you will have to do is decide on the types of products that you will customize and sell, like a Calendar and organisation T Shirts... Design them and then provide links from your website and other marketing methods to your Cafepress store.

Pretty simple hey!

Cafepress.com will print items per order and then mail the products directly to the customer. They obviously charge a base price for each type of product and you charge as much as you like on top of that, taking the profits.

Online fundraiser with Cafepress - Selling customized T Shirts!

Check out their price lists to check what their base prices are.

Here are some great products from Cafepress that you could use for your online fundraisers...

Charity calendars
Mugs
T-shirts
Stickers
Hats

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Some tips for your Cafepress store:

Design products that will be popular with your supporters. Don't just design anything. Think about your products and designs carefully... what will be fun, cool and exciting?

Maybe a funny joke, or a clever phrase, or photos that are significant to your cause and its supporters... Like from a youth group camp or artwork from your classes. Be creative and cool about it!

Advertise and market all your products! You MUST advertise your products on your website and through your newsletters. Have an image of your products and a text link that says something like this, "Buy these cool T shirts and help us raise funds for our cause!"

Other ways you could market your products is obviously by word of mouth, and through fliers and posters.

And please do remember that if you want to stock some of your products so you can sell them at events etc. you can always just order a whole lot of them at the base price and have them mailed to you!

Obviously you will then sell them at their mark up price!

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Become a Cafepress Affiliate:

Another way of fundraising with Cafepress is by becoming an affiliate. They will pay you a 15% commission for sales that you refer to them via a link on your website or emails.

You can either sign up to them via commission junction or you can go to the following Cafepress page. Once accepted just add your special referrer links to your website! It’s all quite simple to do.

Check out the 'fundraising with affiliates' page to find out more.

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Another online store you should consider using is eBay. Check out the 'Fundraising ideas using eBay' page.

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