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The Essential Brand Startup Guide. Launching Your T-shirt Label? - Avoid This Trap. How to make your little T-Shirt business look like a BIG BUSINESS. So You Want To Make T-Shirts? So You Want To Make T-Shirts?

So You Want To Make T-Shirts?

UPDATE 2, April 2, 2015: Whoa. We just updated this series with part three over on Cotton Bureau. If you want learn how to make and sell *even more* t-shirts, follow me. UPDATE 2/20/2013: United Pixelworkers is a little bigger now than when we first wrote this post. If you want to hear how things have changed, read our new post, “So You Want to Make a Whole Bunch of T-Shirts” on the United Pixelworkers blog. If you’re reading this, you’re probably a web worker. In the months since we launched Pixelworkers, we’ve learned a lot about the highs and lows of making t-shirts: designing them, printing them, marketing them, selling them, stocking them, and shipping them…oh dear lord shipping them. The Sobering Truth. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. Who’s Gonna Print Them? Time to find a printer. Of course, a local shop still leaves you with a few non-trivial loose ends: setting up an online store, shipping product, and dealing with customer service.

T-Shirt Magazine - The Premiere T-Shirt Site Featuring the Coolest T-Shirt Brands. It seems nowadays everybody’s selling t-shirts and, if you haven’t started already, you might be next.

T-Shirt Magazine - The Premiere T-Shirt Site Featuring the Coolest T-Shirt Brands

Before you jump into the t-shirt business you might wanna take a few pointers, and we’ve got you covered. Here’s a guide on how to start your own t-shirt business, divided into the 10 most important aspects. 1. Do your research. Make sure you’re knowledgeable about the clothing industry before you dive in. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. So You Want to Make a Whole Bunch of T-Shirts. Two years ago, we warned you that making t-shirts ain’t all fun and games.

So You Want to Make a Whole Bunch of T-Shirts

But did you listen? No. You went out and made yourself a little side business selling shirts. Maybe you created a Kickstarter to launch your new store, or you run a popular design website with an equipment shop, or maybe you’re not hitting that kind of volume yet, but you see it around the corner and don’t know what to do. Relax, we’re here for you. How to Start a Clothing Company. You came here because you want to start your own tshirt business and your passionate about it.

How to Start a Clothing Company

Starting a tshirt business is an amazing experience and you are going to have lot of personal growth as well as business and financial growth if you stay with it. This website and this article isn’t about making a quick buck. If you are one of those people who just wants to do it just for the money I would suggest you stop right here because you are not going to succeed. The following are 10 tips need to help you succeed in starting a tshirt business 1. How to Sell T-shirts - Up to 100,000 of Them! 5 Things I Learned the Hard Way: Tips on Inventory Management. I launched my WilloToons gift line in 2007, and over the last 4 years I have learned more about running a product business than I ever bargained for!

5 Things I Learned the Hard Way: Tips on Inventory Management

Recently I’ve been sharing what I’ve learned through consulting and speaking, but up until now I haven’t posted anything on my site. I detail a lot of these lessons below, but if you’re more the video-watching type, you’re in luck: I recorded a video! You can’t see the video above, click here to watch it on Vimeo. When I started my business, I dove in, and really just tried to figure out everything myself. I’m going to tell you the top five things I learned (the hard way), in hopes that this saves others out there who want to start or currently have an existing small business selling products.

Inventory How much to order, what sizes, what colors… in the beginning it’s just a guessing game; albeit a fun one at that! Selling BookkeepingNow, this is where my story actually hits the cold hard floor of reality. There is a Better Way! How To Start T-Shirt Business.