How to Make Money Selling Merchandise Through Your Blog
Did you know that there are Web sites that allow you to upload your own designs and print those designs on T-shirts, mugs, bags, and more, which you can sell through your blog? You can even set up your own online store in a matter of minutes. Not only that -- you also can use designs offered by the merchandise site or uploaded by other users and sell items with those designs printed on them through your blog.
The Web site handles orders, payments, shipping, returns, production and customer service. Items are printed on demand (when a customer places an order), so you don't have to worry about inventory.
And did you know you can do it for free?
It's true! You can learn more by reading my overview of selling merchandise through your blog as well as my reviews of the top three merchandise Web sites for bloggers: CafePress, Zazzle and Printfection.
I have tried the method you mentioned and it works well. The issue I have is that the profit margin is very low. Through Zazzle I only make 10% per sale. So I setup my own store using a drop shipper and Market Theme. The Market Theme is a theme for Wordpress that I integrated into my blog. It was easy to setup. It includes a shopping cart and easily connects to my PayPal account. The increased profits I get have more than paid for the low cost of the software.
I recommend looking into it. You can see it and demo it at http://www.markettheme.com.