E-commerce storefronts give you the opportunity to place your original writings, artwork or designs on various products and sell them within your very own online shop. The types of items available to be used as well as the pricing and quality will vary depending on which company you decide to host your store with and the services you require. 

Each company will have pros & cons which you may experience when selecting and designing the products you wish to supply that may relate to colours schemes, product types and pricing. Therefore It is a good idea to try a few before settling on any one source to discover which works best for the products you wish to produce.

The product ranges will generally feature apparel, household items, posters, canvas prints, office and also gift items.  You may even publish your own books! For each product sold your royalties may be either sent to you directly in for the form of a check and PayPal or held as store credit so that you may purchase your own or someone else’s products online.

The companies will setup and manage aspect of your shop such as hosting your website, product manufacturing, sales & credit card processing, as well as handling the accounting, shipping, return orders and customer services. This leaves you free to concentrate on design and ideas essentially creating the ideal dropshipping service for your own mini company.

Spreadshirt - is one of the largest European based commerce alternatives to CafePress. The company originally started within and is probably the best choice for targeting the European market with your products. Spreadshirt has a large range of clothing available for your designs in many colour schemes allowing you to design and print your own T-shirt and other clothing in extremely high quality using a unique plot printing technique. The designs are cut out of a very thin material that is either plain "flex" or fuzzy "flock", they even offer a glow-in-the-dark and glitter effect available. The design is then heat sealed to the shirt with each colour being layered separately to ensure super high quality. The flex/flock based designs are described as being virtually indestructible allowing products to be washed many times and still retain their look.

Key Features:

Free Premium Stores
Unlimited number of stores/products
Bulk pricing
Over 150 colours for apparel products

Zazzle - is one of the largest and most popularized online commerce storefronts, located within a friendly social community of like minded people all designing and selling their products and have an excellent selection of products and colours covering a wide range. Products can be classed as either private and available just for yourself to view and purchase, or open to public then displayed in the Zazzle online market place as well as your personal “Contributor Gallery”, available for purchase by the public.

Key Features:

Powerful online design tools

Name your royalty on every sale!

LuLu.com - lets you design, then print-on-demand and sell your own books, e-books, online music, images, custom calendars as well as many other great products with an excellent selection of colours to maximize your product coverage. The stores are easily customisable with there own store URL and a good selection of promotional tools to help with publication and marketing, including the ability to place an application within your Facebook site and sell your Lulu creations directly from your Facebook profile.  LuLu.com will even teach you all you need to know about getting a foot in the door of schools, libraries and stores worldwide.

Printfection - is an on demand manufacturing company and excellent platform for those wishing to design, buy, and sell products of their own designs online. They provide an extremely large variety of customisable merchandise in a wide variety of colours. Easily upload your designs, artwork or photographs to products you select ranging from, male/female clothing to Child – teens clothing and even home & office accessories. All custom products are produced in house & on-demand using the latest digital printing technologies with a turnaround usually within 3 days.

Key Features:

32 different products to choose from

Unlimited colours in your design for the same low price

BitWine - is an information exchange network. You will be given a personal profile with your skills & experience listed along with the ability for people to click a button and contact you in an online chat to which you set your own rates that will be charged by the minute to the customers account. Before the user is required to make payment they are given a free introductory discussion to ask you about your services, after a short period of time they are presented with a message requesting payment via PayPal or credit card, should they believe you have the experience to help them. When payment is received you will be notified and the session will be continued. You may also hold audio and video sessions by installing Skype.

ChaCha - an upcoming search engine that uses “Guides” to make search results as relevant and accurate as possible. The site hosts a great selection of features, everything you would expect from any search engine as well as its own unique abilities such as the ability to talk directly to a guide. Anyone may apply to become a paid “Guide” on ChaCha with earnings of $0.10 per SMS question answered. Guides generally make around $5 to $10 per hour. ChaCha allows its guides to set their own working hours and request payment after one month with at least $100 in your account.

Ether - allows you to be paid for offering your experience and advice on topics you has adequate understanding of and assisting others over the phone. Advisors are given a number and personal extension (using USA and Canadian phone numbers). A user that wish’s to contact you for advice will be forwarded to your own real mobile or house phone, which may be based anywhere in the world and is always kept private. You set your own rates as to what and how you wish to charge. An hourly rate, by the minute, or a flat rate call price. You may also set the hours that you will be available to take calls.

Just Answer - a question and answer site where information pays. You may register to become a paid “Expert” and join a team of other such qualified people in the specific area of knowledge you chose. Users submit a question then define a price they are willing to pay up front for the required answer. The site is one of the leading question and answer networks with “Experts” earning around £4 – £30 for answers and encourages user to tip the experts as gratitude. The questions may be answered by posting messages or using a direct chat option. If the answer you provided is accepted to be used, payment will be shared between yourself and JustAnswer.com. The more questions you successfully answer, the greater your revenue share will be when you answer a new one.

Day tipper - pays anyone for sharing useful tips and tricks that they believe others could benefit from also and accepts tips on a wide selection of topics. Daytipper accepts tips from anyone regardless of education or qualifications and is especially useful if you have a particular skill or believe over time have become somewhat of an expert at a subject. Payment is a reasonable $1 per tip and is far less restrictive then some other paid tip networks.

Tutor.com - is an online tutoring site covering a wide variety of subject & topics to assist people with homework, exam reviews and standardized test preparations. Tutors work in an “online classroom” and chat directly to students with various teaching aids including a virtual whiteboard and the ability to exchange files and browse sites together. To become a paid tutor you must currently reside in either the US or Canada and have a valid Social Security or Social Insurance number it is also required that you are enrolled in or have graduated from a US or Canadian College or University degree program.

Blogitive - allows members to browse an online directory of opportunities from various companies willing to pay you to write articles within your blog advertising their products or services. To be eligible for approval by Blogitive you must have a website or blog that is receiving (or can receive) some level of traffic and has been indexed within Google and Yahoo search engines. Blog owners must continually maintain their sites with at least 3 posts per week on average and be at least 3 months old. Blogitive will not accept Blogs with any content of violent, hate related, adult or other such offensive nature.

Blogging Ads - pays members to post one time advertisements within their Blogs. The ads are provided to you though you may also write your own article for the product/services should you wish to. Blogging Ads will have to approve a Blog before it is accept for an ad but is extremely appreciative of the efforts its members go to and believes in supporting loyal writers. Please note that it may take up to six weeks for a Blog to be approved or rejected and sites which have a page rank of 0 or little relevant content may not be approved.

PayPerPost - is a platform for Blogger’s to get paid writing about companies Website, products or other services, and providing opinions and feedback to advertisers, you can even gain revenue from the sales and traffic you help generate. PayPerPost advertisers pay for your opinion on various topics simply search through their “list of Opportunities” to find advertisements which are relevant to your interests and Website. Once your content is approved you will be paid to place information within your blog about the opportunity you chose.

Blogsvertise - have a number of advertisers covering many topics that are willing to pay to have their website, services and products mentioned within an article on your Blogs and journals. Once approved by an administrator your site will be inserted into a queue of available paid assignments, you will also be emailed tasks and new assignments to write about in your blog if available. When a task has been assigned to you, You will receive an email containing the Website URL along with a brief description about the company and your task. You must then mention the chosen assignment within an article on your Blog and provide at least 3 links directly back to the requested URL. Your entry must be permanent and may not be removed from its location at any time. You will not be required to endorse the Website’s products or services, simply to mention it or discuss it in some form within an article or any other chosen location on your site.

Associated Content - (AC) allows members to gain exposure for their particular skill and offer their services to others by submitting their own original content such as unique and compelling videos, literature/articles, audio files or images on any topic of their choice. AC is one of the leading online content networks providing information to millions of visitors every month. As a content provider you will be eligible to receive up front payments for some content as well as a monthly performance payment by which you will earn a share of the sites revenue based on the popularity of the content you have provided.

Constant Content - is a means by which companies that require original content for their Website’s, Blogs, Magazines or products can purchase that information on any topic with ease. Constant content accepts information on an extremely wide variety of subjects in many formats, such as Articles, Tutorials, Poems, Stories, Guides, Maps and Reviews. Once you have submitted your work you have the ability to set the prices which someone must pay to use your content. As the author you retain full rights to your work and may resell it as many times as you wish or sell the full rights and possibly earn one larger sum.

Digital Journal - contains frequently updated news where a majority of the content is provided by members described as "citizen journalism". In order to earn money with digital journal you will be required to sign up as a citizen journalist and report on news. At current they are only offering payment for news articles, therefore Blogs, images, Groups and other activities within the site are purely to build community and are unpaid.

Thisisby.us - encourages and promotes all talented and aspiring writers to submit their content and earn 50% of the revenue it accumulates with 10% going towards those who comment on it. Users of the site also earn $00.10 every time they comment or vote on an author’s content with the most popular being featured on the sites Homepage.

Dada.net - a large social network and community similar to MySpace, with over 9,000,000 users in 30 countries. Once registered members create their own personal page with their interests and other personal information listed. You can also post audio, video & pictures as well as write your own personal blog, link to friends or other posts & comments. The site allows its members to share a percentage of advertising revenue their profile accumulates based on per thousand page impressions (CPM) and per click, (CPC).

Yuwie - allows you to monetize the time you spend socializing online through its RSR (Revenue sharing rates) program, where by you can earn money simply creating a profile or blog and sharing your page while talking to friends, using messaging systems, uploading pictures & videos or using any of their many useful features. As a member you earn a share of the sites total revenue based on that month’s current RSR rate accumulated whenever anybody looks at content you have submitted. The chart below is an example of how much you could possibly earn over a month period simply referring your friends and family to join you at Yuwie.

Assuming you invite 3 people, that in turn invited 3 people, who then also invited 3 people, with this being continued over 10 levels and each of the invited users receiving 1000 page views to their profiles at an RSR of $0.50.

Squidoo - is one of the world’s largest and most popular paid social networking mediums. Like MySpace and other popular networking sites it allows you to create your own free personal pages and socialize with a massive online community sharing your interests and making new friends. The site has a number of extremely useful and popular features such as Blogs, video & picture hosting as well as online shops. Squidoo allows users to enter their advertising code and earn a share of the sites revenue and includes the option to donate a percentage of that share to a charity of your choice.

MyLot - is a large paid social community with individuals from around the world who enjoy sharing information and socializing online. They aim to become the world’s largest and most popular social network and are willing to pay its users every time they use the site or any of its features. This includes posting or responding to a discussion, submitting your own quality content on topics of interest to you or that you believe will interest others, then promoting that discussion. You can also refer friends & family to join you at Mylot and for each person that joins you will receive a bonus, equal to 25% of the revenue from their specific content earnings.

FriendsWin.com - is another social networking site that pays you for the time you spend online talking and making new friends, creating blogs, personal pages or profiles as well as posting your favorite videos and pictures. Designed and presented in a format similar to other well known social networks such as MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, FaceBook, Orkut and Youtube etc, accept with the added ability for you to earn money from your content.

MetaCafe - Is possibly our favorite media sharing network and certainly gives Youtube a run for its money in terms of usefulness, popularity and growth. Upload your original videos and have your content reviewed for the "Producer” & “Producer Rewards" programs which allow you to add a picture or logo to your profile that appears alongside every video uploaded as a producer. You will also be able to link to your own website and each of your videos via your profile. With the “Producer Rewards” scheme MetaCafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video receives with payment initiating after reaching its first 20,000 views and a content rating of 3.00 or higher.

Reviver - lets you make money creating or simply sharing your video content through their media network as well as hosting your media so that you can embed it within your own blog or website. The site has many useful features including the ability to create and maintain your very own podcast. As the person who uploaded the media you will be entitled to a share of the revenue achieved from your content, but the percentage you will be eligible to receive depends on your legal rights to the content you have submitted.

Flixya - Is a social network that allows you as the content submitter to insert your Advertising publisher code into the user profile and keep 100% of the ad revenue which your pages accumulate. The site has a large friendly community and excellent selection of tools to make sharing your personal photos, videos and Blogs easy.

VuMe - pronounced “View Me” is another media sharing site to which you simply upload your media and VuMe will insert a banner ad around your content. A percentage of the revenue generated from the advertisements is then transferred to you via your chosen payment method. However VuMe at present does seem to be lacking a few features in comparison to some other media revenue sharing networks as can be seen on the “Upcoming Features” page of the site.

Break - Share your videos and pictures to stand a chance of earning $25 should your picture appear in a gallery or up to $2,000 if your video is posted on the break homepage (Content must be Original). You can host unlimited videos and pictures on your personal Break page and use the great sharing features available such as emailing your content to friends, being able to embed them on your website and joining a community of over 13,000,000 people. Anyone may sign up for membership of this site, however content is generally male orientated.

Shareapic - host and earn money from all of your pictures with no restrictions in file size and the ability to create an unlimited number of galleries. You will be paid $0.22 per 1000 views of your pictures, and shareapic also allows you to add your Bidvertiser code to the images and galleries to earn extra revenue from your pages. Pay outs processed every 7 days and debited to your PayPal.

Once accepted by the advertising programs applied to, you will be required to place a section of HTML code somewhere within your website or blog. The HTML code allows the user to place their Ads on any site they require as long as that site abides by the Ad networks terms of service.

When using any Advertising or Affiliate based network, your pay will be based on a "Per Action" basis.

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Adbrite - Has over the last 3 years become a serious competitor to Google Adsense. Sporting its own style and structure Adbrite offers a reliable and unique advertiser/Publisher experience to the majority of advertising networks.

Adbrite gives you the ability to combine PPC, CPM and Full Screen intermittent ads within a single page, as well as to define and set prices for specific ad zones on your site in order to maximize profit potential.

Google Adsense - As one of the original networks, Google Adsense is among the most popular and trusted of the now hundreds of Advertising companies available. Google uses various methods such as automatically scanning your pages for "Keywords" to provide targeted contextual based ads specifically in relation to the topic of your website.

Google uses "Pay Per click" (PPC) and "Pay per Thousands Impressions" (CPM) to structure earnings. However, the amount you will receive for PPC or CPM will vary depending on your web pages topic & keywords with no option to allow publishers to set their own rates for ad zones.