PRINTFECTION is the website to go if you are promoting a band or author or event. Some 20,000 customers have been helped by this larketing site.
Read carefully what services they can provide and the cost of their giveaways and samples. This is a site that has put the "WOW factor" into a lot of promotions.
Red Bubble is an interesting site for creative people with some designs and logos. I was amazed to see the variety of home-designed Ipad and Ipod cases and the large collections of stickers.
This website can be used to sell personalized products or to promote a team, a school, or a cause. I know a teacher that made special stickers to reward students and ended up producing the stickers for hundreds of other educators.
This is a great alternative website for people looking at ways to moneterize youyr blog or website with a few related items for sales. Mercantec provides a free shopping cart, order forms, and E-Commerce Express software.
There are no monthly fees and you can use Google Checkout and Paypal Express Checkout. This site is a good deal.
BLURB.COM makes e-books and print books in limited quantity but with great photographic quality.
Blurb is a great spot for photographers selling print and ebooks of weddings and special events. What do you do with all the 10th anniversary high school reunion photographs - people may not want a book, but few can resist a $2.99 ebook.