Start Making Money With Three New Ning Apps!

[John McDonald]

One of the most common questions I hear from Network Creators is, “How can I make money?” Or, “How can I make this a full-time job?” Lately, many of you are also asking, “How can I cover the cost of a Ning Network?”

We’ve come up with a solution… well, actually four solutions. And we’re working on more. Open a storefront, provide pay-to-play games, collect donations, and advertise are all options we’re spotlighting on our Revenue Generation page. Some of you are already using these solutions to make money. However, in the past it has sometimes been difficult for Network Creators to integrate these solutions into their Ning Network and provide a great member experience. To make it easier, we've been focusing on cutting favorable deals for you with our partners, making installation as easy as possible through new Ning Apps, and helping you better integrate the new apps into your Ning Network (including on your Main Page).

I’m most excited about the new CafePress App. It’s simple to set up, create branded merchandise, and begin earning 10% on every sale. And it’s a great way for your members to show their support – and wear your swag with pride! Even better, we cut a special deal with CafePress to help you cover your Ning subscription fees. Sell just 4 t-shirts (earn $8 in commissions) and get Ning Mini for a full year. Sell 40 t-shirts, or earn $80 in commissions on any type of CafePress merchandise, and get Ning Plus for a full year. That’s 60% off the annual price for Mini or Plus! Install the CafePress App on your Ning Network or learn more about the special deal.

If you choose to fund your Ning subscription through CafePress, your app will include a personalized appeal to your members and a progress meter to encourage purchases. Here’s an example of the Main Page app for a Network Creator earning his Ning Mini subscription:

Of course, it’s also dead-simple to set up a storefront to make money and create custom designs. After setting up their CafePress Shop, Duke City Fix sold more than 40 items in a span of less than three weeks! (Read their story on Ning Creators)

Get creative. Or better yet, have your members get creative. Hold a design contest and sell merchandise designed by the winner. Hold a photo contest once a month, ask your members to vote, and feature the winning photo on merchandise in your CafePress store.

We'll keep on working on more ways for you to help you cover your costs, make money, and maybe even turn your Ning Network into a full-time job. We also would like to learn from you – please comment with your ideas and money-making success stories on Ning Creators!

[Eric Suesz]

Did you look here? Thanks for your suggestions.

[Alfredo Barrera Kleinschmidt]

Si Eric he mirado ahí, pero cuando le doy al link de aprende más vuelve a estar en inglés.

Yes Eric, i was look there, but when i click "Learn more" the text is in english again.

And this is the same with all.

Best regards

[Eric Suesz]

We don't have all of our About pages translated into multiple languages, but we are trying to be more diligent about these announcements. We plan to offer additional pages (in at least Spanish and probably more) for our July 20th rollout.

[sue]

can someone please help! i just added the donate app this weekend and posted a message to members to encourage them to donate (if they can) in order to keep our site live. but i was just looking at the pricing again and saw that apps will not be available on ning mini. have i read this right? i was hoping to use this to raise enough for the ning mini and then go onto the plus if funds allow. now it looks like i won’t be able to run either. is there any other way around this? would appreciate your input as i am getting close to giving up altogether! thanks.

[Eric Suesz]

Good point, sue. Watch for an update about this, probably later today.

[Raymond G. Seapno]

This is exactly what we have been looking for and Ning brought it to the table. It took a lot of convincing just from my team alone that we have a great support from Ning, but the cards turned good on our favor and we are planning on going for the Pro package because we had it with web developers who talk a good game but cannot deliver. We feel that we have been with Ning since I saw Google engineers mention them on Google, and prayed on it. Now everything we spoke and planned about are all coming to fruition because of Ning!

[Brenda]

Hi all, I've just set up our cafepress shop today. I just wanted to quickly find out how to add new designs to the shop. Also, I changed the appearance of the shop by selecting a different background colour but it kept reverting back to the default colours. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

[mark]

If you are referring to the Ning app store, I contacted CafePress to see if NC's could change the color. Our site has a black background and although we would love to launch this store via the App, it's not ideal since the stark white & green text would look out of place and forced into our site's design. Unfortunately, CafePress tech support stated that this could not be changed at this time but they may look into it. It really seems like such a simple item to have some control over the look fo the App. One size (and color) doesn't fit all, does it?

If anyone has found a creative way of changing the style of the Ning CafePress App I would be very interested in hearing about it.