A few years ago, the ‘band and I tinkered around with the idea of starting our own business via cafepress. The premise is pretty straightforward: the website offers a number of basic products (hats, shirts, clocks, aprons, etc.) at set prices. Users can create various designs (via photoshop or scanning original artwork or whatever) and then feature those designs on the products. You can then set a price for each item above the base price; i.e. if a shirt’s base price is $15.99, and you set the price for your shirts at $18.99, then you make a $3.00 profit on each one you sell. Cafepress acts as the warehouse, printing the items as they are purchased.

Generally during the course of our banter, one of us will come up with a phrase that demands printing on a shirt or bumper sticker. Things like “Charles Darwin Created the Earth” or “Jesus is my Personal Magician.” The beauty of cafepress is that whenever you think of these little slogans, you can customize and print them, and then share your genius with the world at large. You-know-who’s latest endeavor is political; check out his bumper sticker here.