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You may need the help of a technical person if you don't have the ability to edit the templates yourself. If that's the case, copy the code carefully and provide it to your technical person, along with information about where to place it on the page and any information to use alongside it.
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Selling Blog-Branded Merchandise
Does your business have a popular brand, cute logo, or catchy slogan? If so, you may be able to generate sales of branded merchandise from your blog. If you already have a retailer who handles this kind of merchandise for your company, check to see whether the retailer can handle online ordering. You can also contact your Web host about setting up a shopping cart, secure connection, and merchant account, and sell items directly from your Web site or blog.
Selling tangible items online can be a problematic and expensive process, however, so think hard about whether you're likely to sell enough product to make back the time needed to produce, package, ship, and bill for your merchandise.
If all that sounds like a headache — or too expensive to be worthwhile — but you're still interested in the idea, visit CafePress.com, an online retailer that lets you create branded merchandise and then handles production, orders, transactions, and even shipping for you.
CafePress.com charges a base price for its stock of T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, calendars, mouse pads, bags, lunch boxes, buttons, magnets, posters, books, CDs, and more. But it doesn't charge anything for you to create a store with CafePress (unless you would like to fully customize the look and feel of shop pages to match those of your Web site). Anything you choose to charge over this base price is pure revenue.
To use CafePress.com effectively, you need to create some high-quality versions of your logo (or other elements you want to use), upload them to CafePress.com, choose which products to put them on, and then advertise their availability on your blog.
You can order items from your own shop to use as giveaways, prizes, and gifts.
To get started selling hats with your logo today, visit www.cafepress.com and open a shop! Figure 14-10 shows the CafePress.com shop I set up for my Web design company, Hop Studios.
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